The key is to keep company only with people who uplift you, whose presence calls forth your best.
EPICTETUSIt’s time to stop being vague. If you wish to be an extraordinary person, if you wish to be wise, then you should explicitly identify the kind of person you aspire to become.
More Epictetus Quotes
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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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In prosperity it is very easy to find a friend; but in adversity it is the most difficult of all things.
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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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Authentic happiness is always independent of external conditions.
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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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Happiness and freedom begin with a clear understanding of one principle.
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Freedom is the only worthy goal in life. It is won by disregarding things that lie beyond our control.
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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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What concerns me is not the way things are, but rather the way people think things are.
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We suffer not from the events in our lives but from our judgement about them.
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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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Any person capable of angering you becomes your master; he can anger you only when you permit yourself to be disturbed by him.
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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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Don’t live by your own rules, but in harmony with nature.
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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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