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.
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Whatever I do, I hope it's quality, I hope it's something that's class.
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I thought I knew how to work out before I immersed myself into boxing. I now know what an extreme workout really is.
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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.
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Usually when I write a song, I'll write the music and then kind of fit some words to it.
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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.
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We humans have millions of years of evolutionary baggage that makes us regard competition in a deadly light.
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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.
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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.
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For every quarrel a man and wife have before others, they have a hundred when alone.
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Enjoy and have fun when you're a kid, because you are a kid.
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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.
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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.
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Strategy is about stretching limited resources to fit ambitious aspirations.
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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.
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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.
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Digest the opinion and determine our future course of conduct.
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If the only thing that you want to do is make money - if that's your whole motivation - I think you're lying to yourself. If the only motivation you have is to make money and make it, what's making it? Oh, you get a yacht or an island. Well, you're going to need someone to be on that island. You're going to need people, one way or another.
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Normally we will say we are happy or we are unhappy. I have met some people who told Me, "Oh we went to that Guru we were very happy." I said, "You could be happy in the pub also. What is happiness?" Happiness is not the way to judge any one, neither unhappiness. Unhappiness comes to you through this super ego and happiness through this ego. But joy has no double face, joy is joy. In joy, you witness, you witness the whole thing. And when you are joyous you feel the whole thing, the joy itself coming on you like grace falling on to you. It's so beautiful that you just get lost into it.
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Doing what you wanted to do was the only training, and the only preliminary, needed for doing more of what you wanted to do.
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He who writes badly thinks badly
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What's the good of dragging up sufferings which are over, of being unhappy now just because you were then.
