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It’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.

Epictetus

Desire and happiness cannot live together.
EPICTETUS

Desire Happiness Live One Liner Togetherness
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
Other people’s views and troubles can be contagious. Don’t sabotage yourself by unwittingly adopting negative, unproductive attitudes through your associations with others.
EPICTETUS

Adopt Association Attitude Negative People Trouble
There is only one way to happiness and that is to cease worrying about things which are beyond the power or our will.
EPICTETUS

Beyong Cease Happiness Let Go Power Worry
It’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.
EPICTETUS

Aspire Extraordinary Inspirational Time Vague Wise
We can’t control the impressions others form about us, and the effort to do so only debases our character.
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Character Control Effort Impression
It takes more than just a good looking body. You’ve got to have the heart and soul to go with it.
EPICTETUS

Body Goodness Heart Inspirational Look Soul
Suffering arises from trying to control what is uncontrollable, or from neglecting what is within our power.
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Arise Control Neglect Power Suffering Try
If evil be spoken of you and it be true, correct yourself, if it be a lie, laugh at it.
EPICTETUS

Evil Laugh Speak True Yourself
If you wish to live a life free from sorrow, think of what is going to happen as if it had already happened.
EPICTETUS

Freedom Inspirational Let Go Life Live Sorrow
Know you not that a good man does nothing for appearance sake, but for the sake of having done right?
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Appearance Done Goodness Inspirational Man Sake
The more we value things outside our control, the less control we have.
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Control Expectation Inspirational Life Value
Don’t explain your philosophy. Embody it.
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Explanation Express Philosophy
It is not he who reviles or strikes you who insults you, but your opinion that these things are insulting.
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Attitude Insult Let Go Opinion Philosophy Strike
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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Angry Disturb Master Permit Person Yourself
Wealth consists not in having great possessions, but in having few wants.
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Consist Greatness Minimalism Possession Want Wealth

It’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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It’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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