Seneca the Younger (Seneca) Quotes
Quotes to Explore
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When you celebrate, it's something that happens as a group. But when you mourn, sorrow is something that you handle as an individual.
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Film has always been a really good tool for me to communicate emotion about why I create a collection. I'm probably one of the first designers to make short films.
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Love isn't an emotion or an instinct - it's an art.
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All my career, all that I've really done has been based on emotion and intuition and gravitating toward what sounds good.
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Sex is emotion in motion.
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Sorrow lies like a heartbeat behind everything I have written.
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The definition of a musical is that the emotion is so strong that you can't talk anymore, you have to sing. The emotion isn't strong enough when you're just like, 'Let's take a second to sing about lamps!'
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I like to play what I call a-motional golf. Emotion doesn't grab me that much.
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Genre categories are irrelevant. I dislike them, but I do not have the casting vote.
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When I perform on stage, I often pretend to be someone other than myself to bring a certain emotion or intent to a song.
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I love red and I think it's more than just a color: It evokes an emotion. When you wear red, it makes you feel empowered and sexy. For me, sin is all about temptation and the power of seduction. Red Sin is a combination of those elements to make women feel irresistible.
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We are never real historians, but always near poets, and our emotion is perhaps nothing but an expression of a poetry that was lost.
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We say, sorrow, disaster, calamity. God says, chastening and it sounds sweet to him though it is a discord to our ears. Don't faint when you are rebuked, and don't despise the chastening of the Lord. In your patience possess your souls.
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Sorrow burns up a great amount of shallowness.
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Whatever is expressed is impressed. Whatever you say to yourself, with emotion, generates thoughts, ideas and behaviors consistent with those words.
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The secret of life is never to have an emotion that is unbecoming.
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All art is immortal. For emotion for the sake of emotion is the aim of art, and emotion for the sake of action is the aim of life.
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Every song is something that I've been through or an emotion I've felt - like falling in love or heartbreak.
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Never allow your own sorrow to absorb you, but seek out another to console, and you will find consolation.
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The most often repeated commandment in the Bible is 'Do not fear.' It's in there over two hundred times. That means a couple of things, if you think about it. It means we are going to be afraid, and it means we shouldn't let fear boss us around. Before I realized we were supposed to fight fear, I thought of fear as a subtle suggestion in our subconscious designed to keep us safe, or more important, keep us from getting humiliated. And I guess it serves that purpose. But fear isn't only a guide to keep us safe; it's also a manipulative emotion that can trick us into living a boring life.
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The gospel always comes to people in cultural robes. There is no such thing as a ‘pure’ gospel, isolated from culture
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I count this thing to be grandly true: That a noble deed is a step toward God.
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No emotion falls into dislike so readily as sorrow.
