Epictetus

Stick with your purpose. Do not seek external approval. Do not worry about anything outside of your control. The only things you command are your thoughts and actions. We choose our response.
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Freedom and happiness come from understanding – and working with – our limits. Begin at once a program of self-mastery.
-Epictetus

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.
-Epictetus

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 of their significance. Things and people are not what we wish them to be nor are they what they seem to be. They are what they are.
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Any person capable of angering you becomes your master.
-Epictetus

The key is to keep company only with people who uplift you, whose presence calls forth your best.
-Epictetus

He is a wise man who does not grieve for the things which he has not, but rejoices for those which he has.
-Epictetus

To make the best of what is in our power, and take the rest as it occurs.
-Epictetus

To live a life of virtue, you have to become consistent, even when it isn’t convenient, comfortable, or easy.
-Epictetus

Deliberate much before saying or doing anything, for you will not have the power of recalling what is said or done.
-Epictetus