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Epictetus Quote - We can’t control the impressions others form about us, and the effort to do so only debases our character.

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 would be a reader, read; if a writer, write.
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Book Poet Reading Writing
Give me by all means the shorter and nobler life, instead of one that is longer but of less account!
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Account Giving Inspirational Life Positive
Keep your attention focused entirely on what is truly your own concern, and be clear that what belongs to others is their business and none of yours.
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Attention Belong Business Concern Focus True
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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Ears Giving Hear Nature Speak Tongue
We suffer not from the events in our lives but from our judgement about them.
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Event Judgement Life Live Suffering
Don’t explain your philosophy. Embody it.
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Explanation Express Philosophy
When we blather about trivial things, we ourselves become trivial, for our attention gets taken up with trivialities. You become what you give your attention to.
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Attention Character Giving Inspirational Ourselves
By accepting life’s limits and inevitabilities and working with them rather than fighting them, we become free.
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Acceptance Fight Freedom Life Limitation Work
Happiness and freedom begin with a clear understanding of one principle.
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Beginning Clear Freedom Happiness Principle Understand
Happiness and personal fulfillment are the natural consequences of doing the right thing.
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Consequences Fulfillment Happiness Positive
Demand not that things happen as you wish, but wish them to happen as they do, and you will go on well.
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Demand Happen Inspirational Satisfaction
Have the wisdom to know what cannot be changed, and the strength to change what can.
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Business Change Inspirational Strength Success Wisdom
Freedom is the only worthy goal in life. It is won by disregarding things that lie beyond our control.
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Control Freedom Goals Life Win Worth
Give me by all means the shorter and nobler life, instead of one that is longer but of less account!
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Account Giving Inspirational Life Positive
The key is to keep company only with people who uplift you, whose presence calls forth your best.
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Company Friendship Key People Presence
It’s not what happens to you, but how you react to it that matters.
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Handle Happen Inspirational Matter Reaction

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