Renew every day your conversation with God: Do this even in preference to eating. Think more often of God than you breathe.
EPICTETUSAnything worth putting off is worth abandoning altogether.
More Epictetus Quotes
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Don’t consent to be hurt and you won’t be hurt – this is a choice over which you have control.
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People are not disturbed by things, but by the views they take of them.
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A ship should not ride on a single anchor, nor life on a single hope.
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If you want to improve, be content to be thought foolish and stupid.
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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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It’s not what happens to you, but how you react to it that matters.
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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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No man is free who is not master of himself.
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Desire and happiness cannot live together.
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In trying to please other people, we find ourselves misdirected toward what lies outside our sphere of influence. In doing so, we lose our hold on our lifes purpose.
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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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Small-minded people blame others. Average people blame themselves. The wise see all blame as foolishness.
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Wealth consists not in having great possessions, but in having few wants.
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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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Have the wisdom to know what cannot be changed, and the strength to change what can.
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