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What I cannot love, I overlook. This quote is taken from Epictetus’ Discourses by Epictetus and it can be interpreted in several ways: 1) What we cannot love we will overlook. We will not pay attention to what we do not like or want. We will simply ignore it and move on. 2) What we cannot love we ignore.
We do not confront the things we do not like about our lives and instead ignore them completely. 3) What we cannot love, we overlook. This is the most common interpretation of the quote. This is when we do not love something that is right in front of us and instead choose to focus on what we do not like or what we would prefer to see in our lives rather than what is present.
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