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We all dread a bodily paralysis, and would make use of every contrivance to avoid it; but none of us is troubled about a paralysis of the soul.

Epictetus

Renew every day your conversation with God: Do this even in preference to eating. Think more often of God than you breathe.
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Breathe Conservation Eat God Preference Thinking
First say to yourself what you would be; and then do what you have to do.
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Believe Motivational Yourself
Don’t live by your own rules, but in harmony with nature.
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Harmony Inspirational Live Nature Rule
Man is not worried by real problems so much as by his imagined anxieties about real problems.
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Anxiety Imagination Man Problem Worry
What concerns me is not the way things are, but rather the way people think things are.
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Attitude Concern Human Nature People Thinking
The greater the difficulty, the more glory in surmounting it. Skillful pilots gain their reputation from storms and tempests.
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Difficult Motivational Pilot Reputation Skill Storm
We all carry the seeds of greatness within us, but we need an image as a point of focus in order that they may sprout.
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Carry Focus Greatness Inspirational Need Seed
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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Freedom Inspirational Let Go Life Live Sorrow
If you would be a reader, read; if a writer, write.
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Book Poet Reading Writing
It’s so simple really: If you say you’re going to do something, do it. If you start something, finish it.
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Business Finish Motivational Patience Start Success
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.
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Attention Choose Expose Giving Self Love Yourself
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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Attention Character Giving Inspirational Ourselves
Seek not the good in external things; seek it in yourselves.
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Goodness Inspirational Life Seek Wisdom Yourself
Whoever is going to listen to the philosophers needs a considerable practice in listening.
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Consider Listen Need Philosophy Practice
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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Concern Creation Giving Motivational Watch Work
Difficulty shows what men are.
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Character Difficult Men One Liner

We all dread a bodily paralysis, and would make use of every contrivance to avoid it; but none of us is troubled about a paralysis of the soul.

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We all dread a bodily paralysis, and would make use of every contrivance to avoid it; but none of us is troubled about a paralysis of the soul.

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