"Happiness and freedom begin with a clear understanding of one principle: Some things are within our control, and some things are not."

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Source : Epictetus, Sharon Lebell (2013). “The Art of Living: The Classical Mannual on Virtue, Happiness, and Effectiveness”, p.3, Harper Collins

Epictetus

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“Formula feeding is the longest lasting uncontrolled experiment lacking informed consent in the history of medicine.”
“I felt myself in a solitude so frightful that I contemplated suicide. What held me back was the idea that no one, absolutely no one, would be moved by my death, that I would be even more alone in death than in life.”
“People change. Some of the people I once knew I now can't stand.”
“Winning isn't worthwhile unless one has something finer and nobler behind it. When I reach the soul of one of my boys with an idea, or ideal, or vision, then I have done my job as a coach.”
“When one studies the structure of the universe, it becomes clear that the sciences are as aesthetic as the arts, and the arts are as practical as the sciences. Thus, they are different - but the same.”
“You get so caught up in what you're writing - action sequences tend to do that more than anything else because you're living it, and feeling for your characters.”
“My favorite part of my body is my brain. I think no matter what my body looks like I wont be satisfied unless I know how to use it.”
“In the realm of science, all attempts to find any evidence of supernatural beings, of metaphysical concepts, as God, immortality, infinity, etc have thus far failed, and if we are honest, we must confess that in science there exists no God, no immortality, no soul or mind, as distinct from the body.”

Source : 1941 In the American Freeman, Jul.

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