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.
EPICTETUSDon’t be concerned with other people’s impressions of you. They are dazzled and deluded by appearances. Stick with your purpose. This alone will strengthen your will and give your life coherence.
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Suffering arises from trying to control what is uncontrollable, or from neglecting what is within our power.
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Try not to react merely in the moment. Pull back from the situation. Take a wider view. Compose yourself.
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Men are not troubled by things themselves, but by their thoughts about them.
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Seek not the good in external things; seek it in yourselves.
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Is freedom anything else than the right to live as we wish? Nothing else.
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If you want to improve, be content to be thought foolish and stupid.
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Progress is not achieved by luck or accident, but by working on yourself daily.
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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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When you are offended at any man’s fault, turn to yourself and study your own failings. Then you will forget your anger.
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Any person capable of angering you becomes your master; he can anger you only when you permit yourself to be disturbed by him.
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No matter where you find yourself, comport yourself as if you were a distinguished person.
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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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Anything worth putting off is worth abandoning altogether.
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It is impossible for a man to learn what he thinks he already knows.
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Events do not just happen, but arrive by appointment.
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