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Why have history’s greatest minds—from George Washington to Frederick the Great to Ralph Waldo Emerson—along with today’s top performers from Super Bowl-winning football coaches to CEOs and celebrities embraced the wisdom of the ancient Stoics? Because they realize that the most valuable wisdom...
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How ridiculous and how strange to be surprised at anything which happens in life
Do not indulge in dreams of having what you have not, but reckon up the chief of the blessings you do possess, and then thankfully remember how you would crave for them if they were not yours.
Receive without conceit, release without struggle.
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Humans have come into being for the sake of each other, so either teach them, or learn to bear them.
Accept whatever comes to you woven in the pattern of your destiny, for what could more aptly fit your needs?
Accept the things to which fate binds you, and love the people with whom fate brings you together, but do so with all your heart.
Never let the future disturb you. You will meet it, if you have to, with the same weapons of reason which today arm you against the present.
The first rule is to keep an untroubled spirit. The second is to look things in the face and know them for what they are.
You always own the option of having no opinion. There is never any need to get worked up or to trouble your soul about things you can’t control. These things are not asking to be judged by you. Leave them alone.
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