Tag: responsibility
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Transcending Challenge and Difficulty: A Guide to Personal Growth
The Art of Embracing Difficulty Life is a series of challenges, some more daunting than others. While the instinctual reaction may be to avoid difficulty, there is a counterintuitive truth to consider: challenge and difficulty are good for us. They serve as the crucible in which our character is formed and our skills are honed.…
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50 Stoic Quotes from Epictetus
Epictetus (circa 50 AD – 135 AD) was a Greek Stoic philosopher born into slavery in Hierapolis, Phrygia, present-day Turkey. Despite his early life in bondage, he studied Stoic philosophy, which shaped his later teachings — including these Stoic quotes. His teachings emphasized philosophy as a way of life, personal responsibility, and self-discipline. Epictetus’s influence…