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Become Quotes by Epictetus
- Nothing is in reality either pleasant or unpleasant by nature but all things become so through habit
- 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…
- It’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…
- Happiness and freedom begin with a clear understanding of one principle: Some things are within our control, and some things are not. It is only…
- As you think, so you become.....Our busy minds are forever jumping to conclusions, manufacturing and interpreting signs that aren't there.
- Men are not worried by things, but by their ideas about things. When we meet with difficulties, become anxious or troubled, let us not blame…
- By accepting life's limits and inevitabilities and working with them rather than fighting them, we become free.
- It was the first and most striking characteristic of Socrates never to become heated in discourse, never to utter an injurious or insulting word --…
- Exceed due measure, and the most delightful things become the least delightful.
- If you seek truth you will not seek victory by dishonorable means, and if you find truth you will become invincible.
- Difficulty shows what men are. Therefore when a difficulty falls upon you, remember that God, like a trainer of wrestlers, has matched you with a…
- To live a life of virtue, you have to become consistent, even when it isn't convenient, comfortable, or easy.
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- The more dubious and uncertain an instrument violence has become in international relations, the more it has gained in reputation and appeal… — Hannah Arendt
- When it comes to the point where you occasionally look forward to being in prison on the basis that you might be… — Julian Assange
- We tend to become what the most important person in our life thinks we will become. Think the best, believe the best,… — John C. Maxwell
- It's no accident, I think, that tennis uses the language of life. Advantage, service, fault, break, love, the basic elements of tennis… — Andre Agassi
- Salvation means knowing the truth. We do not become anything; we are what we are. Salvation [comes] by faith and not by… — Swami Vivekananda
- Harry, despite your privileged insight into Voldemort’s world (which, incidentally, is a gift any Death Eater would kill to have), you have… — Joanne Kathleen Rowling
- I gave my life to become the person I am right now. Was it worth it? — Richard Bach
- We have domesticated God's transcendence. We often learn about God at about the same time as we are learning about Santa Claus;… — Karen Armstrong