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"If you have assumed any character beyond your strength, you have both demeaned yourself ill in that and quitted one which you might have supported."
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"Be the same person- with or without money."
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"Challenge your assumptions and identify your limiting beliefs. Every time you find yourself thinking that you can't do something, ask yourself, 'why not?"
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"Even the most aware of us do not realize the infinite power we possess or the magnitude of the ability we have to create, transmute, and transcend."
"Life is a do-it-yourself project."
"Be who you are. You may not always please but you will never go wrong."
"An authentic and genuine life grows like a sturdy tree. And like a tree, it grows slowly. Every time you make a different and better decision, it grows a little. Every time you choose to do the right thing, even when nobody would find out otherwise, it grows a little. Every time you act with compassion, relinquish your right to strike back, take a courageous stand, admit fault or accept responsibility, it grows a little."
"Change isn't always comfortable, but it always teaches us something of utmost importance " usually about ourselves " and we become better people for it."
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"When a youth was giving himself airs in the Theatre and saying, 'I am wise, for I have conversed with many wise men,' Epictetus replied, 'I too have conversed with many rich men, yet I am not rich!'."
"If you want to make progress, put up with being perceived as ignorant or naive in worldly matters, don't aspire to a reputation for sagacity. If you do impress others as somebody, don't altogether believe it. You have to realize, it isn't easy to keep your will in agreement with nature, as well as externals. Caring about the one inevitably means you are going to shortchange the other."
"No greater 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. Let it first blossom, then bear fruit, then ripen."
"Freedom, you see, is having events go in accordance with our will, never contrary to it."
"I cannot call somebody 'hard-working' knowing only that they read and write. Even if 'all night long' is added, I cannot say it " not until I know the focus of all this energy."
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"It is not he who reviles or strikes you who insults you, but your opinion that these things are insulting."
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