Epictetus Quotes

In theory there is nothing to hinder our following what we are taught; but in life there are many things to draw us aside.

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I found out early in life that I could hit a baseball farther than most players, and that's what I tried to do.
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When in life do you get a black and white printout that says this is what you should do? It just doesn't happen.
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'The View' was so much fun. So much fun because the audience was 85-percent fans that wanted to be there celebrating 'One Life to Live' and the other 15 percent were crew members from 'One Life to Live'. It was just really, really wonderful and the clips were wonderful.
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If the world is an objective reality that exists independently of us, then humans themselves, even in their own eyes, are nothing more than objects, and their life stories merely a series of disconnected historical accidents, which they may wonder at, but which they themselves have nothing to do with.
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When I was a kid, the miracles of my life were the Resurrection, a candlelight service on New Year's Eve, the Virgin Birth, and the Three Wise Men.
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My view is that when in doubt, society should err on the side of life.
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I guess I was a mom so late in life, my daughter was the greatest thing since sliced bread.
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Be who you are. It's easy to feel like you have to blend in, but it takes courage to live your life with conviction and embrace the person that you are.
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I think it's important to be able to say that you did live a normal life and struggled to make ends meet. It all has to do with work ethic and how I apply myself to my awesome job now. I've always been used to working because I've been working since I was four.
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Good habits, which bring our lower passions and appetites under automatic control, leave our natures free to explore the larger experiences of life. Too many of us divide and dissipate our energies in debating actions which should be taken for granted.
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Life is 10 percent what you make it, and 90 percent how you take it.
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Every man's life is a fairy tale written by God's fingers.
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My life was really focused on futbol, but as those things happen in life, my passion for music won over my passion for futbol. But I love what I do. I don't regret it.
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In my humble opinion, the ages 22 to about 27 are the most critical years of your adult life. It's your time to gestate in the cocoon of becoming.
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I'm always inspired to write, and it's usually my own life experiences that inspire me.
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As an actor, you spend a lot of your life in hotel rooms.
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The half hour between waking and rising has all my life proved propitious to any task which was exercising my invention... It was always when I first opened my eyes that the desired ideas thronged upon me.
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If you want to love your life more, you can begin by living and loving more of it - by zestfully living and loving every teeny-tiny, gorgeously-detailed minutiae moment!
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Do those serving life sentences deserve access to educational opportunities never having a future beyond bars? The answer is yes and necessitates that in-prison education serves additional goals beyond reducing recidivism.
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The hook-nosed teacher looked past Quirrell’s turban straight into Harry’s eyes — and a sharp, hot pain shot across the scar on Harry’s forehead.
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Unconsciously, I fell in love with the small round sphere, with its amusing and capricious rebounds which sometimes play with me.
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I'm still going to sing these songs because trap is a type of music very popular in the streets, and people want to hear it.
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Oh yeah - for sure - hardly a week doesn't go by when I don't hear something wonderful that someone has made in some low-budget situation, primarily with a view to selling a few hundred copies at their concerts.
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In theory there is nothing to hinder our following what we are taught; but in life there are many things to draw us aside.