It’s not what happens to you, but how you react to it that matters.
EPICTETUSFreedom is the only worthy goal in life. It is won by disregarding things that lie beyond our control.
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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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People are not disturbed by things, but by the views they take of them.
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If you want to improve, be content to be thought foolish and stupid.
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The more we value things outside our control, the less control we have.
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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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By accepting life’s limits and inevitabilities and working with them rather than fighting them, we become free.
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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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Wealth consists not in having great possessions, but in having few wants.
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Attach yourself to what is spiritually superior, regardless of what other people think or do. Hold to your true aspirations no matter what is going on around you.
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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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It takes more than just a good looking body. You’ve got to have the heart and soul to go with it.
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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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The world turns aside to let any man pass who knows where he is going.
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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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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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