Epictetus

When you close your doors, and make darkness within, remember never to say that you are alone, for you are not alone.

Topic: Alone, Self-esteem
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What concerns me is not the way things are, but rather the way people think they are. — Epictetus

Be not swept off your feet by the vividness of the impression, but say, “Impression, wait for me a little. Let me see what you are and what you represent. Let me try you.”

› Epictetus

Perception

If someone succeeds in provoking you, realize that your mind is complicit in the provocation.

› Epictetus

Self

Learning

Keep company only with people who uplift you, whose presence calls forth your best.

› Epictetus

Business Friendship

Communication Listening Speech

Any person capable of angering you becomes your master.

› Epictetus

Anger

Adversity Misfortune

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It’s easy to stand with the crowd it takes courage to stand alone. — Mohandas Gandhi

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It’s better to be unhappy alone than unhappy with someone.

› Marilyn Monroe

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Without great solitude no serious work is possible. — Pablo Picasso

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Be good and you will be lonesome. — Mark Twain

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I love people. I love my family, my children… but inside myself is a place where I live all alone and that’s where you renew your springs that never dry up.

› Pearl S. Buck

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Until you get comfortable with being alone, you’ll never know if you’re choosing someone out of love or loneliness.

› Mandy Hale

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The most terrible poverty is loneliness, and the feeling of being unloved. — Mother Teresa

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You cannot be lonely if you like the person you are alone with. — Dr. Wayne Dyer

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No man is born unto himself alone; who lives unto himself, he lives to none.

For beautiful eyes, look for the good in others; for beautiful lips, speak only words of kindness; and for poise, walk with the knowledge that you are never alone.

› Audrey Hepburn

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Be alone, that is the secret of invention; be alone, that is when ideas are born.

› Nikola Tesla

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