Seneca the Younger (Seneca) Quotes
What's the good of dragging up sufferings which are over, of being unhappy now just because you were then.Seneca the Younger
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Whatever I do, I hope it's quality, I hope it's something that's class.
Garth Brooks -
I thought I knew how to work out before I immersed myself into boxing. I now know what an extreme workout really is.
Edgar Ramirez -
I was named Margaret Yvonne. 'Margaret' because my mother was very fond of one of the derivatives of the name. She was fascinated at the time by the movie star Baby Peggy, and I suppose she wanted a Baby Peggy of her own.
Yvonne De Carlo -
Usually when I write a song, I'll write the music and then kind of fit some words to it.
Oscar Isaac -
I found in one of the tombs an inscription saying, 'If you touch my tomb, you will be eaten by a crocodile and hippopotamus.' It doesn't mean the hippo will eat you, it means the person really wanted his tomb to be protected.
Zahi Hawass -
Many people still believe that 'green' solutions are too expensive, but they are actually much cheaper when all of the costs to public health, social services, and waste handling are factored into the same equation.
Majora Carter
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The happiest days of my youth were when my brother and I would run through the woods and feel quite safe.
Rachel Weisz -
For every quarrel a man and wife have before others, they have a hundred when alone.
E. W. Howe -
Enjoy and have fun when you're a kid, because you are a kid.
Freddie Freeman -
It is said that there is no salvation outside the Church. Who denies this? And therefore whatever things of the Church are had outside the Church do not avail unto salvation.
Saint Augustine -
I’m not sure what I’ll do, but— well, I want to go places and see people. I want my mind to grow. I want to live where things happen on a big scale.
F. Scott Fitzgerald -
I don’t like to badmouth people. But I’m the head of a monarchy that began in the ninth century, and I’m apparently more modern than Chris Christie. Look, I know he has to appeal to the crazy right-wingers in his party, but the fact is, he’s not as forward-thinking as an eighty-seven-year-old lady who wears a crown on her head. It’s pathetic.
Queen Elizabeth II
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There are people today who look to fear to take us out of fear. But I believe that there are many, many more people who would look to love.
Marianne Williamson -
Digest the opinion and determine our future course of conduct.
Charles James -
Gold, for the instant, lost its luster in his eyes, for there were countless treasures of the heart which it could never purchase.
Charles Dickens -
Suicide does not end the chances of life getting worse. Suicide eliminates the possibility of it ever getting better.
Vic Fuentes -
The man who does something under orders is not unhappy; he is unhappy who does something against his will.
Seneca the Younger -
Everything comes down to this: the reason for every word I have written and every word I will write. I am recounting my life for you so that you may know this secret without the pain of discovering it: We are unhappy because we think that love is something we require from someone else. Our salvation depends on a simple gesture that is nonetheless the most difficult act we can perform: We must give away the thing we most long for. Not to receive but to give.
Arthur Japin
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I just want to concentrate on my rugby and enjoy it and live in the moment.
Brian O'Driscoll -
Life isn't always really glamorous and fabulous. It's about encouraging people to go back to natural beauty.
Zoe Foster Blake -
What's the good of dragging up sufferings which are over, of being unhappy now just because you were then.
Seneca the Younger