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

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

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You have been given your own work to do. Get to it right now, do your best at it, and don’t be concerned with who is watching you. Create your own merit.
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Happiness and freedom begin with a clear understanding of one principle.
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Beginning Clear Freedom Happiness Principle Understand
All religions must be tolerated for every man must get to heaven in his own way.
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Acceptance Heaven Life Man Religion Tolerance
Only the educated are free.
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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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Adopt Association Attitude Negative People Trouble
Authentic happiness is always independent of external conditions.
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Authentic Condition Happiness Independence Inspirational
Books are the training weights of the mind.
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Keep your attention focused entirely on what is truly your own concern, and be clear that what belongs to others is their business and none of yours.
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Attention Belong Business Concern Focus True
All philosophy lies in two words, sustain and abstain.
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One Liner Philosophy Reality Sustain
Imagine for yourself a character, a model personality, whose example you determine to follow, in private as well as in public.
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Character Determination Imagination Personality Role Model Yourself
When something happens, the only thing in your power is your attitude toward it; you can either accept it or resent it.
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Acceptance Attitude Happen Ignorance Power
It is better to die of hunger having lived without grief and fear, than to live with a troubled spirit, amid abundance.
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Abundance Die Fear Hunger Live Trouble
Have the wisdom to know what cannot be changed, and the strength to change what can.
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Business Change Inspirational Strength Success Wisdom
Don’t be concerned with other people’s impressions of you. They are dazzled and deluded by appearances. Stick with your purpose. This alone will strengthen your will and give your life coherence.
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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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Difficult Motivational Pilot Reputation Skill Storm
When you are offended at any man’s fault, turn to yourself and study your own failings. Then you will forget your anger.
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No matter what happens, it is within my power to turn it to my advantage.
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Advantage Change Happen Inspirational Matter Power
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
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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Happiness Liberty Life People Right Truth
Anything worth putting off is worth abandoning altogether.
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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
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 more we value things outside our control, the less control we have.
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Events do not just happen, but arrive by appointment.
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We all carry the seeds of greatness within us, but we need an image as a point of focus in order that they may sprout.
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Carry Focus Greatness Inspirational Need Seed
Nature hath given men one tongue but two ears, that we may hear from others twice as much as we speak.
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Ears Giving Hear Nature Speak Tongue
Men are not troubled by things themselves, but by their thoughts about them.
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Attitude Inspirational Men Thinking Trouble

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