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Try not to react merely in the moment. Pull back from the situation. Take a wider view. Compose yourself.

Epictetus

Other people’s views and troubles can be contagious. Don’t sabotage yourself by unwittingly adopting negative, unproductive attitudes through your associations with others.
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Adopt Association Attitude Negative People Trouble
Any person capable of angering you becomes your master; he can anger you only when you permit yourself to be disturbed by him.
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Angry Disturb Master Permit Person Yourself
What concerns me is not the way things are, but rather the way people think things are.
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Attitude Concern Human Nature People Thinking
When we blather about trivial things, we ourselves become trivial, for our attention gets taken up with trivialities. You become what you give your attention to.
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Attention Character Giving Inspirational Ourselves
Every difficulty in life presents us with an opportunity to turn inward and to invoke our own submerged inner resources. The trials we endure can and should introduce us to our strengths.
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Endure Introduce Life Opportunity Resource Strength
The world turns aside to let any man pass who knows where he is going.
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Going Man Philosophy Wisdom World
Give me by all means the shorter and nobler life, instead of one that is longer but of less account!
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Account Giving Inspirational Life Positive
The essence of philosophy is that a man should so live that his happiness shall depend as little as possible on external things.
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Essense Happiness Inspirational Man Philosophy Possible
The greater the difficulty, the more glory in surmounting it. Skillful pilots gain their reputation from storms and tempests.
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Difficult Motivational Pilot Reputation Skill Storm
We suffer not from the events in our lives but from our judgement about them.
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Event Judgement Life Live Suffering
Desire and happiness cannot live together.
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Desire Happiness Live One Liner Togetherness
Small-minded people blame others. Average people blame themselves. The wise see all blame as foolishness.
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Average Blame Character Foolish People Wise
Authentic happiness is always independent of external conditions.
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Authentic Condition Happiness Independence Inspirational
First learn the meaning of what you say, and then speak.
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Goodness Learning Manner Speak
The key is to keep company only with people who uplift you, whose presence calls forth your best.
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Company Friendship Key People Presence
If you want to improve, be content to be thought foolish and stupid.
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Content Fools Improvement Stupid Want

Try not to react merely in the moment. Pull back from the situation. Take a wider view. Compose yourself.

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