A ship should not ride on a single anchor, nor life on a single hope.
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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Desire and happiness cannot live together.
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First learn the meaning of what you say, and then speak.
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Give me by all means the shorter and nobler life, instead of one that is longer but of less account!
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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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Wisdom means understanding without any doubt that circumstances do not rise to meet our expectations. Events happen as they may. People behave as they will.
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When we blather about trivial things, we ourselves become trivial, for our attention gets taken up with trivialities. You become what you give your attention to.
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Tentative efforts lead to tentative outcome.
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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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First say to yourself what you would be; and then do what you have to do.
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If you would be a reader, read; if a writer, write.
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In prosperity it is very easy to find a friend; but in adversity it is the most difficult of all things.
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The best place to get help is from yourself.
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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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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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