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Attach yourself to what is spiritually superior, regardless of what other people think or do. Hold to your true aspirations no matter what is going on around you.

Epictetus

Nature hath given men one tongue but two ears, that we may hear from others twice as much as we speak.
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Ears Giving Hear Nature Speak Tongue
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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Control Happiness Inspirational Life Power Secret
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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Goals Influence Lie Life Please Purpose
Give me by all means the shorter and nobler life, instead of one that is longer but of less account!
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Account Giving Inspirational Life Positive
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
The world turns aside to let any man pass who knows where he is going.
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Going Man Philosophy Wisdom World
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.
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Acceptance Demand Expectation Happen Peace Possible
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
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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Behaviour Circumstance Expectation People Understand Wisdom
Make the best use of what is in your power, and take the rest as it happens.
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Happen Hustle Motivational Philosophy Power Work Hard
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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Avoid Body Pralysis Soul Trouble
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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Beyong Cease Happiness Let Go Power Worry
If you would be a reader, read; if a writer, write.
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Book Poet Reading Writing
The key is to keep company only with people who uplift you, whose presence calls forth your best.
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Company Friendship Key People Presence
Nothing truly stops you. Nothing truly holds you back. For your own will is always within your control.
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Control Hold Inspirational Positive Stop True
By accepting life’s limits and inevitabilities and working with them rather than fighting them, we become free.
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Acceptance Fight Freedom Life Limitation Work
Is freedom anything else than the right to live as we wish? Nothing else.
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Freedom Inspirational Live Right Satisfaction
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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Character Determination Imagination Personality Role Model Yourself
No matter what happens, it is within my power to turn it to my advantage.
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Advantage Change Happen Inspirational Matter Power
People are not disturbed by things, but by the views they take of them.
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Disturb Human Nature Imagination People
It is more necessary for the soul to be cured than the body; for it is better to die than to live badly.
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Body Cure Die Live Necessary Soul
Ruin and recovering are both from within.
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Believe Healing One Liner Recover Ruin
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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Abundance Die Fear Hunger Live Trouble
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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Attention Belong Business Concern Focus True
He who is not happy with little will never be happy with much.
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Greedy Happiness Human Nature Life
Happiness and freedom begin with a clear understanding of one principle.
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Beginning Clear Freedom Happiness Principle Understand
Happiness and personal fulfillment are the natural consequences of doing the right thing.
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Consequences Fulfillment Happiness Positive

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