Authentic happiness is always independent of external conditions.
EPICTETUSEvents do not just happen, but arrive by appointment.
More Epictetus Quotes
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Wealth consists not in having great possessions, but in having few wants.
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When something happens, the only thing in your power is your attitude toward it; you can either accept it or resent it.
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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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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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There is only one way to happiness and that is to cease worrying about things which are beyond the power or our will.
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Only the educated are free.
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We suffer not from the events in our lives but from our judgement about them.
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The more we value things outside our control, the less control we have.
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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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The greater the difficulty, the more glory in surmounting it. Skillful pilots gain their reputation from storms and tempests.
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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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By accepting life’s limits and inevitabilities and working with them rather than fighting them, we become free.
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Every difficulty in life presents us with an opportunity to turn inward and to invoke our own submerged inner resources. The trials we endure can and should introduce us to our strengths.
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You have been given your own work to do. Get to it right now, do your best at it, and don’t be concerned with who is watching you. Create your own merit.
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Keep silence for the most part, and speak only when you must, and then briefly.
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