By accepting life’s limits and inevitabilities and working with them rather than fighting them, we become free.
EPICTETUSWhat concerns me is not the way things are, but rather the way people think things are.
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Happiness and personal fulfillment are the natural consequences of doing the right thing.
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It is impossible for a man to learn what he thinks he already knows.
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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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Desire and happiness cannot live together.
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Difficulty shows what men are.
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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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It is not death or pain that is to be dreaded, but the fear of pain or death.
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Books are the training weights of the mind.
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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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A ship should not ride on a single anchor, nor life on a single hope.
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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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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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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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It’s time to stop being vague. If you wish to be an extraordinary person, if you wish to be wise, then you should explicitly identify the kind of person you aspire to become.
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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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