BY THEME
On Control
The dichotomy of control — what lies within our power, and what does not.
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You have power over your mind — not outside events. Realize this, and you will find strength.
Meditations
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It's not what happens to you, but how you react to it that matters.
Enchiridion
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Some things are up to us and some things are not up to us.
Enchiridion 1.1
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Make the best use of what is in your power, and take the rest as it happens.
Enchiridion 1.3
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Our life is what our thoughts make it.
Meditations 4.3
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Reject your sense of injury and the injury itself disappears.
Meditations 4.7
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How much more grievous are the consequences of anger than the causes of it.
Meditations 11.18
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Meditations 8.47
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The best answer to anger is silence.
Meditations (attrib.)
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Meditations 8.47