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.
EPICTETUSMen are not troubled by things themselves, but by their thoughts about them.
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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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What concerns me is not the way things are, but rather the way people think things are.
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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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Try not to react merely in the moment. Pull back from the situation. Take a wider view. Compose yourself.
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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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No matter where you find yourself, comport yourself as if you were a distinguished person.
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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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No great thing is created suddenly. There must be time. Give your best and always be kind.
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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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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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It is unrealistc to expect people to see you as you see yourself.
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Whoever is going to listen to the philosophers needs a considerable practice in listening.
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Ruin and recovering are both from within.
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Seek not the good in external things; seek it in yourselves.
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