Seneca the Younger (Seneca) Quotes
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The more I read about feeding times, sleep times and waking-up times, the more inadequate and miserable I felt.
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It may sound funny, but it's true: I tried to put myself through the 12-step program. I didn't want to attend a real meeting; my role didn't really require that, and I feel those meetings are sort of sacred, and they're anonymous for a reason. I tried to deal with some of my love of snacks - and I relapsed a lot.
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Religious beliefs are sacred to people, and at all times should be respected and honoured.
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The temple and the holy ordinances are indeed sacred, and we should be spiritually sensitive to them. It is a sacred blessing to attend the temple to worship the Lord.
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The road to the sacred leads through the secular.
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She was deeply passionate about the sacred feminine.
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I had a wonderful childhood, which is tough because it's hard to adjust to a miserable adulthood.
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Like everybody else, I've had relationships in which I was passionately in love but was completely miserable all the time and didn't trust the person I was in love with one inch.
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No thoroughly occupied person was ever found really miserable.
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My elementary school days were miserable. After Star Search, the jealousy got really bad that our neighbors slashed our tires.
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I realized that very young - that a life where you don't live to your full potential, or you don't experiment, or you're afraid, or you hesitate, or there are things you know you should do but you just don't get around to them, is a life that I'd be miserable living, and the only way to feel that I'm on the right path is just to be true to myself, whatever that may be, and that tends to come with stepping out of something that's maybe safe or traditional.
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If you are searching for sacred knowledge and not just a palliative for your fears, then you will train yourself to be a good skeptic.
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An Armageddon is approaching at the beginning of the third millennium. But it is not the cosmic war and fiery collapse of mankind foretold in sacred scripture. It is the wreckage of the planet by an exuberantly plentiful and ingenious humanity.
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Life can be pleasant or miserable. To lead a fruitful life, and to make it positive, practice analytical meditation.
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Let us eat, drink and satisfy our coarse appetites, but let us keep our souls sacred and apart.
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Golf is an expensive way to make yourself miserable.
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Life is sacred. Life is art. Life is sacred art.
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It is difficult to make a man miserable while he feels worthy of himself and claims kindred to the great God who made him.
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Surround yourself with positive people. Also, be a positive person. Root for people. Somebody else's success is not your failure.
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But now, for the first time, I see you are a man like me. I thought of your hand-grenades, of your bayonet, of your rifle; now I see your wife and your face and our fellowship. Forgive me, comrade. We always see it too late. Why do they never tell us that you are poor devils like us, that your mothers are just as anxious as ours, and that we have the same fear of death, and the same dying and the same agony - forgive me, comrade; how could you be my enemy?
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The miserable are sacred.
