You become what you give your attention to…If you yourself don't choose what thoughts and images you expose yourself to, someone else will.

Epictetus

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Man is not worried by real problems so much as by his imagined anxieties about real problems.

The essence of philosophy is that we should live so that our happiness depends as little as possible on external causes.

Short-term thinking makes people desperate, ungenerous, impulsive. Long-term thinking makes people calm, gracious, controlled. The mighty pyramids and cathedrals were built by civilizations with a long time horizon, so it is with the life of a great man.

The Stoic Emperor

A wise man is content with his lot, whatever it may be, without wishing for what he has not.

No one is laughable who laughs at himself.

If you are distressed by anything external, the pain is not due to the thing itself, but to your estimate of it; and this you have the power to revoke at any moment.

Marcus Aurelius

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