Renew every day your conversation with God: Do this even in preference to eating. Think more often of God than you breathe.
EPICTETUSWe can’t control the impressions others form about us, and the effort to do so only debases our character.
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The best place to get help is from yourself.
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No matter what happens, it is within my power to turn it to my advantage.
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Don’t explain your philosophy. Embody it.
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Attach yourself to what is spiritually superior, regardless of what other people think or do. Hold to your true aspirations no matter what is going on around you.
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It is impossible for a man to learn what he thinks he already knows.
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Freedom and happiness are won by disregarding things that lie beyond our 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 is our attitude toward events, not events themselves, which we can control. Nothing is by its own nature calamitous, even death is terrible only if we fear it.
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All religions must be tolerated for every man must get to heaven in his own way.
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First say to yourself what you would be; and then do what you have to do.
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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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The key is to keep company only with people who uplift you, whose presence calls forth your best.
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Give me by all means the shorter and nobler life, instead of one that is longer but of less account!
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It is not he who reviles or strikes you who insults you, but your opinion that these things are insulting.
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Don’t be concerned with other people’s impressions of you. They are dazzled and deluded by appearances. Stick with your purpose. This alone will strengthen your will and give your life coherence.
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