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.
EPICTETUSTry not to react merely in the moment. Pull back from the situation. Take a wider view. Compose yourself.
More Epictetus Quotes
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Wealth consists not in having great possessions, but in having few wants.
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Don’t live by your own rules, but in harmony with nature.
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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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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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Nothing truly stops you. Nothing truly holds you back. For your own will is always within your control.
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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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Keep silence for the most part, and speak only when you must, and then briefly.
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I laugh at those who think they can damage me. They do not know who I am, they do not know what I think, they cannot even touch the things which are really mine and with which I live.
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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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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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Have the wisdom to know what cannot be changed, and the strength to change what can.
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By accepting life’s limits and inevitabilities and working with them rather than fighting them, we become free.
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Only the educated are free.
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Freedom and happiness are 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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