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To accuse others for one's own misfortunes is a sign of want of education. To accuse oneself shows that one's education has begun. To accuse neither oneself nor others shows that one's education is complete.
- Epictetus
Common and vulgar people ascribe all ills that they feel to others; people of little wisdom ascribe to themselves; people of much wisdom, to no one.
- Epictetus
The key is to keep company only with people who uplift you, whose presence calls forth your best.
- Epictetus
First say to yourself what you would be, and then do what you have to do.
- Epictetus
Any person capable of angering you becomes your master, He can anger you only when you permit yourself to be disturbed by him
- Epictetus
Man is not worried by real problems so much as by his imagined anxieties about real problems.
- Epictetus
There is only one way to happiness and that is to cease worrying about things which are beyond the power or our will.
- Epictetus
It's not what happens to you, but how you react to it that matters.
- Epictetus
It is impossible for a man to learn what he thinks he already knows.
- Epictetus
The virtue lies in the struggle, not in the prize.
- Richard Monckton Milnes
A leader is a dealer in hope.
- Napoleon Bonaparte
Imagination is more important than knowledge.
- Albert Einstein
The soul becomes dyed with the color of its thoughts.
- Marcus Aurelius
Man is not worried by real problems so much as by his imagined anxieties about real problems.
- Epictetus
Ambition has one heel nailed in well, though she stretch her fingers to touch the heavens.
- Lao Tzu
When the power of love overcomes the love of power, the world will know peace.
- Jimi Hendrix
It is impossible for a man to learn what he thinks he already knows.
- Epictetus
The more you know, the more you realize you don't know.
- Aristotle
Change is inevitable... Growth is optional.
- John C. Maxwell
The only limit to our realization of tomorrow will be our doubts of today.
- Franklin Roosevelt
Nobody dies a virgin. Life fucks us all.
- Kurt Cobain
Don’t lie to me unless you’re absolutely sure that I will never find the truth.
- Anonymous
Never lie to the person you love. Its not worth it and they don’t deserve it.
- Anonymous
Purpose is what gives life a meaning.
- C. H. Parkhurst
Happiness is not a state to arrive at, but a manner of traveling.
- Margaret Lee Runbeck
The mind that is anxious about future events is miserable.
- Seneca
Time you enjoy wasting, was not wasted.
- John Lennon