You have been given your own work to do. Get to it right now, do your best at it, and don’t be concerned with who is watching you. Create your own merit.
EPICTETUSNothing truly stops you. Nothing truly holds you back. For your own will is always within your control.
More Epictetus Quotes
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Ruin and recovering are both from within.
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No great thing is created suddenly. There must be time. Give your best and always be kind.
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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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Make the best use of what is in your power, and take the rest as it happens.
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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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Freedom and happiness are won by disregarding things that lie beyond our control.
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The world turns aside to let any man pass who knows where he is going.
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Every difficulty in life presents us with an opportunity to turn inward and to invoke our own submerged inner resources. The trials we endure can and should introduce us to our strengths.
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Whoever is going to listen to the philosophers needs a considerable practice in listening.
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Don’t explain your philosophy. Embody it.
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Circumstances don’t make the man, they only reveal him to himself.
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Small-minded people blame others. Average people blame themselves. The wise see all blame as foolishness.
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There is only one way to happiness and that is to cease worrying about things which are beyond the power or our will.
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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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It takes more than just a good looking body. You’ve got to have the heart and soul to go with it.
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