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🔥 Courage
“Make the best use of what is in your power, and take the rest as it happens.”
Epictetus balances proactive courage with accepting what we cannot control.
“First say to yourself what you would be; and then do what you have to do.”
— Epictetus
“No great thing is created suddenly, any more than a bunch of grapes or a fig.”
“It is not what happens to you, but how you react to it that matters.”
“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.”
“No man is free who is not master of himself.”
“Wealth consists not in having great possessions, but in having few wants.”
“Beware; for I am fearless, and therefore powerful.”
— Mary Shelley
“The sole advantage of power is that you can do more good.”
— Baltasar Gracian
“When I dare to be powerful, to use my strength in the service of my vision, then it becomes less and less important whether I am afraid.”
— Audre Lorde
“Silence is a source of great strength.”
— Lao Tzu
“The power of love, as the basis of a State, has never been tried.”
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
“Forty percent of our happiness is within our power to change.”
— Sonja Lyubomirsky
“The measure of a man is what he does with power.”
— Plato
“Knowledge is power.”
— Francis Bacon
