Happiness and freedom begin with a clear understanding of one principle.
EPICTETUSIf you seek Truth, you will not seek to gain a victory by every possible means; and when you have found Truth, you need not fear being defeated.
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You become what you give your attention to. If you yourself don’t choose what thoughts and images you expose yourself to, someone else will, and their motives may not be the highest.
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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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No matter what happens, it is within my power to turn it to my advantage.
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If you want to improve, be content to be thought foolish and stupid.
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Demand not that things happen as you wish, but wish them to happen as they do, and you will go on well.
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Freedom is the only worthy goal in life. It is won by disregarding things that lie beyond our control.
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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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No great thing is created suddenly. There must be time. Give your best and always be kind.
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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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Is freedom anything else than the right to live as we wish? Nothing else.
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Events do not just happen, but arrive by appointment.
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Desire and happiness cannot live together.
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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 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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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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