Seneca the Younger (Seneca) Quotes
I know that nothing comes to pass but what God appoints; our fate is decreed, and things do not happen by chance, but every man's portion of joy and sorrow is predetermined.
Quotes to Explore
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Strange things blow in through my window on the wings of the night wind and I don't worry about my destiny.
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I don't want to miss out on the chance of having a good time.
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The Supreme Court is having a hard time integrating schools. What chance do I have to integrate audiences?
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Truly, love is delightful and pleasant food, supplying, as it does, rest to the weary, strength to the weak, and joy to the sorrowful. It in fact renders the yoke of truth easy and its burden light.
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Very few persons go through life without at least one big chance. The fact that so many do not grasp it is due more often to fear than to any other one thing.
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Black Rock gives us all a chance to heal, to become ourselves.
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It's such a joy to talk to a roomful of people who have read my novel and are eager to talk about it.
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Beauty is the only thing that time cannot harm. Philosophies fall away like sand, creeds follow one another, but what is beautiful is a joy for all seasons, a possession for all eternity.
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I think I didn't know whether I wanted to keep acting deep into my career. I kept trying to see if I would be able to do it well enough to make that part of my destiny or part of what I was supposed to do.
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The longest journey is the journey inwards. Of him who has chosen his destiny, Who has started upon his quest for the source of his being.
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Republicans believe largely in the market working, Democrats believe stereotypically that you've got to give people something. So why not give people a chance to let the market work for them.
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I think we should look forward to death more than we do. Of course everybody hates to go to bed or miss anything, but dying is really the only chance we'll get to rest.
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When locational information is collected, people should be given advance notice and a chance to opt out. Data should be erased as soon as its main purpose is met.
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For joy, apparently, it was all Franny could do to hold the phone, even with both hands.
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There was a night when winds from unknown spaces whirled us irresistibly into limitless vacum beyond all thought and entity. Perceptions of the most maddeningly untransmissible sort thronged upon us; perceptions of infinity which at the time convulsed us with joy, yet which are now partly lost to my memory and partly incapable of presentation to others.
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The laughter cameWhen the tears stopped falling.Now all I do is just call your name(When I say lover)You walked in and my heart discoveredThat my life would never be the same.Oh, you are my destiny.You are my one and only.You gave that joy to meWhen my whole life was lonely.
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You are my pride and joyAnd I just love you, little darlin'Like a baby boy loves his toyYou've got kisses sweeter than honeyAnd I work every day to give you all I knowAnd that's why you're my pride and joy.
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Alcohol doesn’t console, it doesn’t fill up anyone’s psychological gaps, all it replaces is the lack of God. It doesn’t comfort man. On the contrary, it encourages him in his folly, it transports him to the supreme regions where he is master of his own destiny.
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Ambition is but avarice on stilts, and masked.
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There's a lot of craft that goes into achieving a hit song - at the beginning of your career, you're usually more inspiration than craft, and you get great when those intersect. A skilled songwriter can get you to that intersection.
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And every dew-drop paints a bow.
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To comfort a sorrowful conscience is much better than to possess many kngdoms; yet the world regards it not; nay, condemns it, calling us rebels, dissturbers of the peace.
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I know that nothing comes to pass but what God appoints; our fate is decreed, and things do not happen by chance, but every man's portion of joy and sorrow is predetermined.
