Seneca the Younger (Seneca) Quotes

The miserable are sacred.

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• The more I read about feeding times, sleep times and waking-up times, the more inadequate and miserable I felt.

  

  Gail Porter
  • Up
  • Sleep
  • More

• 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.

  

  Octavia Spencer
  • True
  • Funny
  • Feel

• Religious beliefs are sacred to people, and at all times should be respected and honoured.

  

  Isaac Hayes
  • People
  • Religious
  • Beliefs

• 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.

  

  L. Lionel Kendrick
  • Blessing
  • Holy
  • Sacred

• The road to the sacred leads through the secular.

  

  Abraham Joshua Heschel
  • Road
  • Through
  • Sacred

• She was deeply passionate about the sacred feminine.

  

  Dan Brown
  • Passionate
  • Sacred
  • Feminine

• I had a wonderful childhood, which is tough because it's hard to adjust to a miserable adulthood.

  

  Larry David
  • Childhood
  • Tough
  • Miserable

• 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.

  

  Salman Rushdie
  • Time
  • Trust
  • Person

• No thoroughly occupied person was ever found really miserable.

  

  Walter Savage Landor
  • Person
  • Miserable
  • Ever

• My elementary school days were miserable. After Star Search, the jealousy got really bad that our neighbors slashed our tires.

  

  Christina Aguilera
  • School
  • Bad
  • Star

• 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.

  

  Angelina Jolie
  • Life
  • Live
  • May

• 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.

  

  Ann Druyan
  • Good
  • Knowledge
  • Ifs

• 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.

  

  E. O. Wilson
  • War
  • Beginning
  • Humanity

• Life can be pleasant or miserable. To lead a fruitful life, and to make it positive, practice analytical meditation.

  

  Dalai Lama
  • Life
  • Practice
  • Positive

• As long as a person is involved with warfare, trying to defend or attack, then his action is not sacred; it is mundane, dualistic, a battlefield situation.

  

  Chogyam Trungpa
  • Long
  • Trying
  • Action

• Let us eat, drink and satisfy our coarse appetites, but let us keep our souls sacred and apart.

  

  Emile Zola
  • Soul
  • Drink
  • Sacred

• Golf is an expensive way to make yourself miserable.

  

  Rita Mae Brown
  • Way
  • Golf
  • Miserable

• Life is sacred. Life is art. Life is sacred art.

  

  Gabrielle Roth
  • Life
  • Art
  • Life is

• As for the Jews, their explanation of anti-Semitism is more characteristic yet. In addition to the usual cliche, "with hatred and savagery" - naturally with no motive, they do not care to discuss motives - according to them, anti-Semitism is a madness, an intellectual degeneration, an affliction of the spirit.

  

  Alexandru C. Cuza
  • Intellectual
  • Hatred
  • Usual

• That's a tumor. It goes across my liver, up through my lungs, all the way around my heart. And when they were done trying to cut it out, nuke it out with radiation and chemotherapy it out, it left so much scar tissue that when I walk outside now in cold weather and take a deep breath, it feels like someone is stabbing me.

  

  Eric Massa
  • Heart
  • Breath
  • Radiation

• What do we mean by the public interest? Some say the public interest is merely what interests the public. I disagree.

  

  Newton N. Minow
  • Public
  • Interests

• Better extirpate the whole breed, root and branch. And this, unless the German people come to their senses, is what we propose to do.

  

  Gertrude Atherton
  • Propose
  • Branch
  • German People

• The miserable are sacred.

  

  Seneca the Younger
  • Miserable
  • Sacred