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If evil be spoken of you and it be true, correct yourself, if it be a lie, laugh at it.

Epictetus

In trying to please other people, we find ourselves misdirected toward what lies outside our sphere of influence. In doing so, we lose our hold on our lifes purpose.
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Wisdom means understanding without any doubt that circumstances do not rise to meet our expectations. Events happen as they may. People behave as they will.
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No matter where you find yourself, comport yourself as if you were a distinguished person.
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Finding Healing Inspirational Person Yourself
Freedom and happiness are won by disregarding things that lie beyond our control.
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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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It is unrealistc to expect people to see you as you see yourself.
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Deep Expectation People Reality Yourself
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
The greater the difficulty, the more glory in surmounting it. Skillful pilots gain their reputation from storms and tempests.
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Renew every day your conversation with God: Do this even in preference to eating. Think more often of God than you breathe.
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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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If you wish to be good, first believe that you are bad.
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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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It is more necessary for the soul to be cured than the body; for it is better to die than to live badly.
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Happiness and freedom begin with a clear understanding of one principle.
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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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Man is not worried by real problems so much as by his imagined anxieties about real problems.
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