No great thing is created suddenly. There must be time. Give your best and always be kind.
EPICTETUSAnything worth putting off is worth abandoning altogether.
More Epictetus Quotes
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Seek not the good in external things; seek it in yourselves.
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We can’t control the impressions others form about us, and the effort to do so only debases our character.
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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.
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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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It’s so simple really: If you say you’re going to do something, do it. If you start something, finish it.
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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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It’s not what happens to you, but how you react to it that matters.
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Tentative efforts lead to tentative outcome.
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It is not he who reviles or strikes you who insults you, but your opinion that these things are insulting.
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He who is not happy with little will never be happy with much.
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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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To live a life of virtue, match up your thoughts, words, and deeds.
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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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Books are the training weights of the mind.
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Anything worth putting off is worth abandoning altogether.
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