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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…
- It has been ordained that there be summer and winter, abundance and dearth, virtue and vice, and all such opposites for the harmony of the…
- Some things are up to us [eph' hêmin] and some things are not up to us. Our opinions are up to us, and our impulses,…
- We can't control the impressions others form about us, and the effort to do so only debases our character.
- We all carry the seeds of greatness within us, but we need an image as a point of focus in order that they may sprout.
- What really frightens and dismays us is not external events themselves, but the way in which we think about them. It is not things that…
- Learn to distinguish what you can and can't control. Within our control are our own opinions, aspirations, desires and the things that repel us. They…
- When we act pugnaciously, and injuriously, and angrily, and rudely, to what level have we degenerated? To the level of the wild beasts. Well, the…
- When something happens, the only thing in your power is your attitude toward it. It is not the things that disturb us, but our interpretation…
- In theory there is nothing to hinder our following what we are taught;but in life there are many things to draw us aside.
- Things themselves don't hurt or hinder us. Things simply are what they are. How we view these things is another matter.People think what they will…
- 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…
- If we are not stupid or insincere when we say that the good or ill of man lies within his own will, and that all…
- Do you know that disease and death must needs overtake us, no matter what we are doing?... what do you wish to be doing when…
- If you set your heart upon philosophy, you must straightway prepare yourself to be laughed at and mocked by many who will say Behold a…
- Although we can't control which roles are assigned to us, it must be our business to act our given role as best we possibly can…
- If virtue promises happiness, prosperity and peace, then progress in virtue is progress in each of these for to whatever point the perfection of anything…
- We are not disturbed by what happens to us, but by our thoughts about what happens to us.
- The pleasure which we most rarely experience gives us greatest delight.
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