Don’t demand or expect that events happen as you would wish them do. Accept events as they actually happen. That way, peace is possible.
EPICTETUSWhat concerns me is not the way things are, but rather the way people think things are.
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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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He who is not happy with little will never be happy with much.
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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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No man is free who is not master of himself.
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People are not disturbed by things, but by the views they take of them.
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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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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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Freedom and happiness are won by disregarding things that lie beyond our control.
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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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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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By accepting life’s limits and inevitabilities and working with them rather than fighting them, we become free.
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You can be happy if you know this secret: Some things are within your power to control and some things are not.
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It is our attitude toward events, not events themselves, which we can control. Nothing is by its own nature calamitous, even death is terrible only if we fear it.
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Do not try to seem wise to others.
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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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