Renew every day your conversation with God: Do this even in preference to eating. Think more often of God than you breathe.
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.
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Happiness and freedom begin with a clear understanding of one principle.
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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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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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People are not disturbed by things, but by the views they take of them.
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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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Suffering arises from trying to control what is uncontrollable, or from neglecting what is within our power.
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Happiness and personal fulfillment are the natural consequences of doing the right thing.
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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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No matter what happens, it is within my power to turn it to my advantage.
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Nothing truly stops you. Nothing truly holds you back. For your own will is always within your control.
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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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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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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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He is a wise man who does not grieve for the things which he has not, but rejoices for those which he has.
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Books are the training weights of the mind.
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