Man is not worried by real problems so much as by his imagined anxieties about real problems ― Epictetus

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

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It had long come to my attention that people of accomplishment rarely sat back and let things happen to them. They went out and happened to things. - LEONARDO DA VINCI

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Joy is what happens to us when we allow ourselves to recognize how good things really are. — Marianne Williamson

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People are not disturbed by things, but by the views they take of them. ― Epictetus

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Circumstances don't make the man, they only reveal him to himself. ― Epictetus

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

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What happens when people open their hearts?" "They get better.

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You have to accept that sometimes that's how things happen in this world. People's opinions, their feelings, they go one way, then the other. It just so happens you grew up at a certain point in this process.

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

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