Epictetus Quotes About Attitude
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We cannot choose our external circumstances, but we can always choose how we respond to them.
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Any person capable of angering you becomes your master; he can anger you only when you permit yourself to be disturbed by him.
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It is our attitude toward events, not events themselves, which we can control. Nothing is by its own nature calamitous -- even death is terrible only if we fear it.
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It's not what happens to you, but how you react to it that matters.
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Other people's views and troubles can be contagious. Don't sabotage yourself by unwittingly adopting negative, unproductive attitudes through your associations with others.
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When something happens, the only thing in your power is your attitude toward it. It is not the things that disturb us, but our interpretation of their significance. Things and people are not what we wish them to be nor are they what they seem to be. They are what they are.
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Men are disturbed not by the things that happen, but by their opinion of the things that happen.
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When one maintains his proper attitude in life, he does not long after externals.
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People are not disturbed by things, but by the view they take of them.
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When something happens, the only thing in your power is your attitude toward it; you can either accept it or resent it.
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