r/GetMotivated 6d ago

IMAGE [IMAGE] Get out of your head

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u/Night2015 6d ago

HA! Says someone from a privileged reality.

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u/Reasonable_Click4808 6d ago edited 6d ago

This quote comes from a stoic philospher Seneca who indeed was a wealthy man. But another stoic philospher Epictetus was a slave and still had the same thinking. “Men are disturbed not by things, but by the views which they take of things.”

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u/uskgl455 5d ago

There's a Dutch version that sounds beautiful and rhymes in Dutch, but I can only remember the English version:

Man suffers most from the suffering he fears.