Man is not worried by real problems so much as by his imagined anxieties about real problems.
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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People are not disturbed by things, but by the views they take of them.
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If you wish to be good, first believe that you are bad.
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We can’t control the impressions others form about us, and the effort to do so only debases our character.
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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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By accepting life’s limits and inevitabilities and working with them rather than fighting them, we become free.
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Books are the training weights of the mind.
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Events do not just happen, but arrive by appointment.
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Happiness and personal fulfillment are the natural consequences of doing the right thing.
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The essence of philosophy is that a man should so live that his happiness shall depend as little as possible on external things.
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If you would be a reader, read; if a writer, write.
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It is unrealistc to expect people to see you as you see yourself.
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Wealth consists not in having great possessions, but in having few wants.
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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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Don’t explain your philosophy. Embody it.
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He who is not happy with little will never be happy with much.
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