Renew every day your conversation with God: Do this even in preference to eating. Think more often of God than you breathe.
EPICTETUSTry not to react merely in the moment. Pull back from the situation. Take a wider view. Compose yourself.
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First say to yourself what you would be; and then do what you have to do.
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Try not to react merely in the moment. Pull back from the situation. Take a wider view. Compose yourself.
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It is not he who reviles or strikes you who insults you, but your opinion that these things are insulting.
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The greater the difficulty, the more glory in surmounting it. Skillful pilots gain their reputation from storms and tempests.
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Wisdom means understanding without any doubt that circumstances do not rise to meet our expectations. Events happen as they may. People behave as they will.
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Freedom is the only worthy goal in life. It is won by disregarding things that lie beyond our control.
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If you wish to live a life free from sorrow, think of what is going to happen as if it had already happened.
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Desire and happiness cannot live together.
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No matter where you find yourself, comport yourself as if you were a distinguished person.
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The best place to get help is from yourself.
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It is not death or pain that is to be dreaded, but the fear of pain or death.
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Make the best use of what is in your power, and take the rest as it happens.
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Don’t consent to be hurt and you won’t be hurt – this is a choice over which you have control.
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In trying to please other people, we find ourselves misdirected toward what lies outside our sphere of influence. In doing so, we lose our hold on our lifes purpose.
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Books are the training weights of the mind.
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