Any person capable of angering you becomes your master; he can anger you only when you permit yourself to be disturbed by him.
EPICTETUSTry not to react merely in the moment. Pull back from the situation. Take a wider view. Compose yourself.
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We all dread a bodily paralysis, and would make use of every contrivance to avoid it; but none of us is troubled about a paralysis of the soul.
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Books are the training weights of the mind.
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No matter where you find yourself, comport yourself as if you were a distinguished person.
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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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He who is not happy with little will never be happy with much.
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It is unrealistc to expect people to see you as you see yourself.
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Give me by all means the shorter and nobler life, instead of one that is longer but of less account!
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It’s so simple really: If you say you’re going to do something, do it. If you start something, finish it.
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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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Renew every day your conversation with God: Do this even in preference to eating. Think more often of God than you breathe.
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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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The people have a right to the truth as they have a right to life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness.
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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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Don’t explain your philosophy. Embody it.
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Men are not troubled by things themselves, but by their thoughts about them.
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