Stoic Quotes on Control

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You have power over your mind - not outside events. Realize this, and you will find strength.

Author: Marcus Aurelius
Source: Meditations

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Very little is needed to make a happy life; it is all within yourself, in your way of thinking.

Author: Marcus Aurelius
Source: Meditations

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Look within. Within is the fountain of good, and it will ever bubble up, if thou wilt ever dig.

Author: Marcus Aurelius
Source: Meditations

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Do not act as if you were going to live ten thousand years. Death hangs over you. While you live, while it is in your power, be good.

Author: Marcus Aurelius
Source: Meditations

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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.

Author: Marcus Aurelius
Source: Meditations

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If someone is able to show me that what I think or do is not right, I will happily change, for I seek the truth, by which no one was ever truly harmed.

Author: Marcus Aurelius
Source: Meditations

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Begin each day by telling yourself: Today I shall be meeting with interference, ingratitude, insolence, disloyalty, ill-will, and selfishness – all of them due to the offenders’ ignorance of what is good or evil. But for my part I have long perceived the nature of good and its nobility, the nature of evil and its meanness, and also the nature of the culprit himself, who is my brother (not in the physical sense, but as a fellow creature similarly endowed with reason and a share of the divine); therefore none of those things can injure me, for nobody can implicate me in what is degrading. Neither can I be angry with my brother or fall foul of him; for he and I were born to work together, like a man’s two hands, feet or eyelids, or the upper and lower rows of his teeth. To obstruct each other is against Nature’s law – and what is irritation or aversion but a form of obstruction.

Author: Marcus Aurelius
Source: Meditations

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When you wake up in the morning, tell yourself: The people I deal with today will be meddling, ungrateful, arrogant, dishonest, jealous, and surly.

Author: Marcus Aurelius
Source: Meditations

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To live happily is an inward power of the soul.

Author: Marcus Aurelius
Source: Meditations

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There is only one way to happiness and that is to cease worrying about things which are beyond the power of our will.

Author: Epictetus
Source: Enchiridion

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No man is free who is not master of himself.

Author: Epictetus
Source: Enchiridion

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Any person capable of angering you becomes your master.

Author: Epictetus
Source: Enchiridion

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