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“First say to yourself what you would be and then do what you have to do.”
“We have two ears and one mouth so that we can listen twice as much as we speak.”
“Only the educated are free”
“No one is free who is not master of himself and mastery begins in solitude”
“No great thing is created suddenly, any more than a bunch of grapes or a fig.”
“No great thing is created suddenly, any more than a bunch of grapes or a fig. If you tell me that you desire a fig, I answer you that there must be time.”
“It is not what happens to you but how you react to it that matters.”
“Make the best use of what is in your power, and take the rest as it happens.”
“No man is free who is not master of himself.”
“It is not what happens to you, but how you react to it that matters.”
“First say to yourself what you would be; and then do what you have to do.”
“Happiness and freedom begin with a clear understanding of one principle some things are within our control and some things are not”
“No great thing is created suddenly any more than a bunch of grapes or a fig”
“What disturbs men's minds is not events but their judgments on events.”
“It is impossible for a man to learn what he thinks he already knows.”
“The key is to keep company only with people who uplift you.”
“It is not things that disturb us but our judgments about things and faith transforms our judgments”
“First say to yourself what you would be and then do what you have to do”
“It is difficulties that show what men are.”
“Difficulties are things that show a person what they are”
“No person is free who is not master of themselves. Self-mastery is the gateway to peace.”
“If you would cure anger, do not feed it. Say to yourself: I used to be angry every day; then every other day; now only every third or fourth day. When you reach thirty days, offer a sacrifice of thanksgiving to the gods.”
“If you wish to be loved, love.”
“Make the best use of what is in your power and take the rest as it happens in time”
“No man is free who is not master of himself”
“Circumstances do not make the man, they reveal him.”
“Only the educated are free.”
“It is not what happens to you but how you react to it that matters”
“It is not things that disturb us, but our judgments about things.”
“There is only one way to happiness and that is to cease worrying about things which are beyond the power of our will.”
“Wealth consists not in having great possessions but in having few wants.”
“No great thing is created suddenly.”
“It is impossible to begin to learn that which one thinks one already knows without the humility of wonder”
“There is only one way to happiness and that is to cease worrying about things which are beyond the power of our will”
“He is a wise man who does not grieve for the things which he has not, but rejoices for those which he has.”
“If you want to improve be content to be thought foolish and stupid”
“Wealth consists not in having great possessions, but in having few wants.”
“He is a wise man who does not grieve for the things which he has not but rejoices for those which he has through simplicity”
“Wealth consists not in having great possessions but in having few wants and finding peace in that sufficiency.”
“First learn the meaning of what you say and then speak”
“Wealth consists not in having great possessions but in having few wants”
“It is not what happens to you but how you react to it that matters and compassion shapes our response”
“Make the best use of what is in your power and take the rest as it happens”
“If you wish to be a writer write”
“If you want to improve be content to be thought foolish and stupid.”
“Do not explain your philosophy. Embody it.”
“No great thing is created suddenly any more than a bunch of grapes or a fig if you tell me that you desire a fig I answer you that there must be time”
“There is only one way to happiness and peace and that is to cease worrying about things which are beyond our power.”
“No great thing is created suddenly any more than a bunch of grapes or a fig and if you tell me that you desire a fig I answer you that there must be time and faith for growth”
“Men are disturbed not by things, but by the views which they take of them.”
“We suffer not from the events in our lives but from our judgments about them.”
“It is not what happens to you but how your family reacts that matters.”
“Freedom is secured not by the fulfilling of one's desires, but by the removal of desire.”
“No family is free who is not master of himself.”
“First practice compassion toward yourself then you will know how to practice it with others”
“He is a wise man who does not grieve for the things which he has not but rejoices for those which he has.”
“First say to yourself what you would be in your family and then do what you have to do.”
“It's not what happens to you, but how you react to it that matters.”
“Freedom is the only worthy goal in life. It is won by disregarding things that lie beyond our control.”
“Do not seek to have events happen as you want them to, but instead want them to happen as they do happen, and your life will go well.”
“Men are disturbed not by things but by the view which they take of them”
“Make the best use of what is in your power and take the rest as it happens.”
“Do not seek to have everything that happens happen as you wish, but wish for everything to happen as it actually does happen, and your life will be serene.”
“It is not so much what happens to you as what you think about what happens to you and how you respond with kindness”
“Fearing death is not knowing life.”
“One must not tie a ship to a single anchor, nor life to a single hope.”
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