When another is in misfortune we say it is according to nature; but when it happens to ourselves we cry, Alas! Wretched that I am!

Epictetus · Enchiridion 26

What it means

You forgive in others what you catastrophize in yourself. Extend yourself the same mercy.

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Speak to yourself today the way you'd console a friend in the same spot.

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