Make the best use of what is in your power, and take the rest as it happens.
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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.Epictetus
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Freedom is not procured by a full enjoyment of what is desired, but by controlling the desire.
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The world turns aside to let any man pass who knows where he is going.
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