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It's not what happens to you, but how you react to it that matters.

- 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



Don't explain your philosophy. Embody it.

- Epictetus



It's not what happens to you, but how you react to it that matters.

- Epictetus



It is impossible for a man to learn what he thinks he already knows.

- Epictetus



The methodological advice to interpret in a way that optimizes agreement should not be conceived as resting on a charitable assumption about human intelligence that might turn out to be false. If we cannot find a way to interpret the utterances and other behavior of a creature as revealing a set of beliefs largely consistent and true by our standards, we have no reason to count that creature as rational, as having beliefs, or as saying anything.

- Donald Davidson



Advice is one of those things it is far more blessed to give than to receive.

- Carolyn Wells



My advice to those who think they have to take off their clothes to be a star is, once you’re boned, what’s left to create the illusion? Let em wonder. I never believed in giving them too much of me.

- Mae West



When it comes to winning, you need the skill and the will.

- Frank Tyger



No one ever injured their eyesight from looking on the bright side of things.

- Anonymous



Most advice on child-rearing is sought in the hope that it will confirm our prior convictions. If the parent had wished to proceed in a certain way but was made insecure by opposing opinions of neighbors, friends, or relatives, then it gives him great comfort to find his ideas seconded by an expert.

- Bruno Bettelheim



I cannot give advice. How can I when I do not authorize success. I authorize it alright. Smile.

- Gertrude Stein



A piece of advice always contains an implicit threat, just as a threat always contains an implicit piece of advice.

- Jos Bergamin



My advice to any diplomat who wants to have a good press is to have two or three kids and a dog.

- Carl Rowan



Whoever gives advice to the sick gains a sense of superiority over them, no matter whether his advice is accepted or rejected. That is why sick people who are sensitive and proud hate their advisors even more than their illnesses.

- Friedrich Nietzsche