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Don't explain your philosophy. Embody it.


- Epictetus









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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.

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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.

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A leader is a dealer in hope.

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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.

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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