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#1

“We cry to God Almighty, how can we escape this agony? Fool, don’t you have hands? Or could it be God forgot to give you a pair? Sit and pray your nose doesn’t run! Or, rather just wipe your nose and stop seeking a scapegoat.”
― Epictetus, Discourses

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#2

“You say — ‘It’s unfortunate that this has happened to me.’ No. It’s fortunate that this has happened and I’ve remained unharmed by it — not shattered by the present or frightened of the future. It could have happened to anyone. But not everyone could have remained unharmed by it.”
― Marcus Aurelius, Meditations

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#3

“Any person capable of angering you becomes your master;
he can anger you only when you permit yourself to be disturbed by him.”
― Epictetus

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#4

“It's not what happens to you, but how you react to it that matters.”
― Epictetus

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#5

“There is only one way to happiness and that is to cease worrying about things which are beyond the power or our will. ”
― Epictetus

tags: happiness, way-to-be

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#6

“Getting upset is like continuing the dream while you’re awake. The thing that provoked you wasn’t real—but your reaction was. And so from the fake comes real consequences. Which is why you need to wake up right now instead of creating a nightmare.”
― Ryan Holiday, The Daily Stoic: THE PHENOMENAL WORLDWIDE BESTSELLER: 3 MILLION COPIES SOLD

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#7

“If you find something very difficult to achieve yourself, don’t imagine it impossible—for anything possible and proper for another person can be achieved as easily by you.”
― Marcus Aurelius

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#8

“Don't just say you have read books. Show that through them you have learned to think better, to be a more discriminating and reflective person. Books are the training weights of the mind. They are very helpful, but it would be a bad mistake to suppose that one has made progress simply by having internalized their contents.”
― Epictetus, The Art of Living: The Classical Manual on Virtue, Happiness and Effectiveness

tags: be-honest, grow, learn-to-think, understand-what-you-read

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#9

“Freedom is the only worthy goal in life. It is won by disregarding things that lie beyond our control.”
― Epictetus

tags: control, freedom, goal, happiness, life, philosophy

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#10

“The happiness of your life depends upon the quality of your thoughts.”
― Marcus Aurelius, Meditations

tags: happiness

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#11

“Everything we hear is an opinion, not a fact. Everything we see is a perspective, not the truth.”
― Marcus Aurelius , Meditations

tags: truth

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#12

“There's a big chance the people in you environment don't strive for the same things as you. Many people live a timid life. People who don't want anything from life and who spend their time watching TV.
Don't give your time to those people. You might become one of them.”
― Deepstash

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#13

“If you are distressed by anything external, the pain is not due to the thing itself, but to your estimate of it; and this you have the power to revoke at any moment.”
― Marcus Aurelius, Meditations

tags: attitude, distress, mind-over-body, pain, stoicism

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#14

“The best revenge is to be unlike him who performed the injury.”
― Marcus Aurelius, Meditations

tags: conduct-of-life, injury, revenge

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#15

“Whenever you are about to find fault with someone, ask yourself the following question: What fault of mine most nearly resembles the one I am about to criticize?”
― Marcus Aurelius, Meditations

tags: empathy, honesty, self-awareness

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#16

“Reject your sense of injury and the injury itself disappears.”
― Marcus Aurelius, Meditations

tags: attitude, injury, perception

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#17

“Here is a rule to remember in future, when anything tempts you to feel bitter: not "This is misfortune," but "To bear this worthily is good fortune.”
― Marcus Aurelius, Meditations

tags: inspirational

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#18

“Do not try to seem wise to others. If you want to live a wise life, live it on your own terms and in your own eyes.”
― Epictetus, The Art of Living: The Classical Manual on Virtue, Happiness, and Effectiveness

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#19

“Dead people receive more flowers than the living ones because regret is stronger than gratitude.”
― Anonymous

tags: misattributed-anne-frank

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#20

“The secret of health for both mind and body is not to mourn for the past, nor to worry about the future, but to live the present moment wisely and earnestly.”
― Bukkyo Dendo Kyokai, The Teaching of Buddha

tags: inspirational

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#21

“That which does not kill us makes us stronger.”
― Friedrich Nietzsche

tags: paraphrased, strength

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#22

“Most people do not listen with the intent to understand; they listen with the intent to reply.”
― Stephen R. Covey, The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People: Powerful Lessons in Personal Change

tags: listening

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#23

“It takes Nothing to join the crowd.It takes Everything to stand alone".”
― Hans F. Hansen

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#24

“The best revenge is not to be like your enemy.”
― Marcus Aurelius, Meditations

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#25

“If you act like you can do something, then it will work.”
― Walter Isaacson, Steve Jobs

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#26

“We don't see things as they are, we see them as we are.”
― Anaïs Nin

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#27

“Everything that irritates us about others can lead us to an understanding of ourselves.”
― Carl Gustav Jung

tags: knowing-others, perception, self-awareness, understanding

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#28

“We're all going to die, all of us, what a circus! That alone should make us love each other but it doesn't. We are terrorized and flattened by trivialities, we are eaten up by nothing.”
― Charles Bukowski

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#29

“The worst loneliness is to not be comfortable with yourself.”
― Mark Twain

tags: self-acceptance, self-esteem

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#30

“If you want to keep a secret, you must also hide it from yourself.”
― George Orwell, 1984

tags: secrets

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