"What upsets people is not things themselves but their judgments about the things. Accept what you cannot control, and focus on your thoughts which you can control."
Today's Question
If you completely remove 'what you cannot control (weather, others' opinions, etc.)' from all the problems facing you today, what is the 'only thing in your hands' that you should focus on resolving?
Epictetus, watching the rise and fall of emperors as a slave
Epictetus was a Roman slave who became a philosopher, maintaining his inner freedom despite a leg crippled by his master's abuse.
Knowing he could not control his physical body, he realized that no one could control his inner will. He was eventually freed, establishing a school that even Emperor Hadrian visited to pay respect.