By accepting life’s limits and inevitabilities and working with them rather than fighting them, we become free.
EPICTETUSEvents do not just happen, but arrive by appointment.
More Epictetus Quotes
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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 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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It is impossible for a man to learn what he thinks he already knows.
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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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Difficulty shows what men are.
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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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A ship should not ride on a single anchor, nor life on a single hope.
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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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Only the educated are free.
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Don’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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It takes more than just a good looking body. You’ve got to have the heart and soul to go with it.
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Freedom and happiness are won by disregarding things that lie beyond our control.
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Circumstances don’t make the man, they only reveal him to himself.
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Wealth consists not in having great possessions, but in having few wants.
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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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