Quotes for Self-Empowerment

(Sorry for going 'a million miles and hour' with my posts.  It's just that I feel a strong impulse for rapid change, which could be influenced from rapid change happening in the world.  There's that kind of energy going around lately, which is good.  I'll take a break from posting though in the near future.)

Here are some stoicism quotes I picked out for self-empowerment:

“Focus on what you control, take the rest as it happens, and respond with virtue.”  – Jonas Salzgeber

"Freedom is the only worthy goal in life.  It is won by disregarding things that lie beyond our control."  – Epictetus

"Every obstacle becomes an opportunity to practice wisdom, courage, justice, and self-discipline."  – Jonas Salzgeber

"The greater the difficulty, the more glory in surmounting it."  – Epictetus

"Become the person who can do what others dread doing and resist doing what others can’t resist doing."  – Jonas Salzgeber  

“No person has the power to have everything they want, but it is in their power not to want what they don’t have, and to cheerfully put to good use what they do have.”  – Lucius Annaeus Seneca

“The wise man does not consider himself unworthy of any gifts from Fortune’s hands.  He does not love wealth but he would rather have it; he does not admit it into his heart but into his home, and what wealth is his he does not reject but keeps, wishing it to supply greater scope for him to practice his virtue.”  – Lucius Annaeus Seneca

"It is not the man who has too little, but the man who craves more, that is poor."  – Lucius Annaeus Seneca

“Receive without pride, let go without attachment.”  – Marcus Aurelius

“We shouldn’t seek thanks or recognition for doing the right thing.  Doing the right thing is its own reward.”  – Jonas Salzgeber

"When someone is properly grounded in life, they shouldn’t have to look outside themselves for approval."  – Epictetus

“What do others think of us?  Not up to us.  We must not mistake outward success with what’s truly valuable – patience, confidence, self-control, forgiveness, perseverance, courage, and reason.”  – Jonas Salzgeber

“Instead of tying our well-being to what others think, we should tie it to our own actions.  That’s all we control.”  – Jonas Salzgeber

"The tranquility that comes when you stop caring what they say.  Or think, or do.  Only what you do." – Marcus Aurelius

“Let’s be indifferent to what others think of us.  Let’s be as dismissive of their approval as we are of their disapproval.  And let’s focus on where our power lies – our well-intended actions.  Doing the right thing is its own reward.  Let’s find satisfaction in that.”  – Jonas Salzgeber

"The best revenge is not to be like your enemy."  – Marcus Aurelius

“Let’s banish the nonessential from our lives once and for all.  And let’s focus on the essential instead.  This ability to cut through the extraneous and concentrate on the things that matter is immensely powerful.”  – Jonas Salzgeber

"Relentlessly prune bullshit, don’t wait to do things that matter, and savor the time you have."  – Paul Graham

"We suffer more often in imagination than in reality."  – Lucius Annaeus Seneca

"Man is not worried by real problems so much as by his imagined anxieties about real problems."  – Epictetus

"The mind that is anxious about future events is miserable."  – Lucius Annaeus Seneca

"The whole future lies in uncertainty:  live immediately."  – Lucius Annaeus Seneca

"To bear trials with a calm mind robs misfortune of its strength and burden."  – Lucius Annaeus Seneca

"Between stimulus and response, there is a space.  In that space is our power to choose our response."  – Viktor Frankl

"The ultimate power in life is to be completely self-reliant, completely yourself."  – Robert Greene

"Man conquers the world by conquering himself."  – Zeno of Citium

"No man is free who is not master of himself."  – Epictetus