Don’t demand or expect that events happen as you would wish them do. Accept events as they actually happen. That way, peace is possible.
EPICTETUSWe 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.
More Epictetus Quotes
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Difficulty shows what men are.
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Whoever is going to listen to the philosophers needs a considerable practice in listening.
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Man is not worried by real problems so much as by his imagined anxieties about real problems.
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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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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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Progress is not achieved by luck or accident, but by working on yourself daily.
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If you want to improve, be content to be thought foolish and stupid.
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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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Small-minded people blame others. Average people blame themselves. The wise see all blame as foolishness.
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The best place to get help is from yourself.
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Only the educated are free.
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The more we value things outside our control, the less control we have.
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No matter where you find yourself, comport yourself as if you were a distinguished person.
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Make the best use of what is in your power, and take the rest as it happens.
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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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People are not disturbed by things, but by the views they take of them.
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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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Happiness and personal fulfillment are the natural consequences of doing the right thing.
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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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If you would be a reader, read; if a writer, write.
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Don’t explain your philosophy. Embody it.
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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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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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Circumstances don’t make the man, they only reveal him to himself.
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Know you not that a good man does nothing for appearance sake, but for the sake of having done right?
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Keep your attention focused entirely on what is truly your own concern, and be clear that what belongs to others is their business and none of yours.
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