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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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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
Wealth consists not in having great possessions, but in having few wants.
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Consist Greatness Minimalism Possession Want Wealth
Don’t live by your own rules, but in harmony with nature.
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Harmony Inspirational Live Nature Rule
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
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
Nothing truly stops you. Nothing truly holds you back. For your own will is always within your control.
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Control Hold Inspirational Positive Stop True
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
Keep silence for the most part, and speak only when you must, and then briefly.
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Important Philosophy Silence Speak Wisdom
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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Attitude Damage Laugh Live Thinking
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
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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Goals Influence Lie Life Please Purpose
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
By accepting life’s limits and inevitabilities and working with them rather than fighting them, we become free.
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Acceptance Fight Freedom Life Limitation Work
Only the educated are free.
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Education Freedom One Liner
Freedom and happiness are won by disregarding things that lie beyond our control.
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Believe Beyond Control Freedom Happiness Win
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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Freedom Inspirational Let Go Life Live Sorrow

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