Seneca the Younger (Seneca) Quotes

We never reflect how pleasant it is to ask for nothing.

Seneca the Younger

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• Creative people are more prone to depression.

  

  Adam Ant Adam and the Ants
  • People
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  • Depression

• I am too weary to listen, too angry to hear.

  

  Daniel Bell
  • Angry
  • Anger
  • Listen

• 'Everywhere you look it unpacks to infinity. What you look for, you find. And you people can have it. All of it.'The comfortable generosity of this offer puzzled Kearney, so he decided to ignore it. It seemed meaningless anyway.

  

  M. John Harrison
  • People
  • Ignore
  • Generosity

• Your own thoughts can be your worst enemy!

  

  Tae Yun Kim
  • Thoughts
  • Enemy

• Dysfunctions can occur in each of the self-regulatory subfunctions-in how personal experiences are self-monitored and cognitively processed, in the evaluative self-standards that are adopted, and in the evaluative self-reactions to one's own behavior.. Problems at any one of these points can create self-dissatisfactions and dejection. dysfunctions in all aspects of the self system are most apt to produce the most chronic self-disparagement and despondency.

  

  Albert Bandura
  • Problems
  • Experiences
  • Dysfunctions

• ~You know how parents rattle on to you about, 'Oh, you won't believe your life will never be the same,' and you think, Why can't these people just get over it? All they're doing is yakking about their kids. It's such a bore. And then you have kids and you just want to do the same thing.~

  

  Uma Thurman
  • People
  • Life
  • Believe

• Things have changed a great deal since the days of Mr. Mayer. The studios no longer control, as they did in those days, artists or directors or producers, as the case may be.

  

  Lew Wasserman
  • Great
  • May
  • Control

• In the morning, instead of saying to yourself, ‘I got to wake up’ say ‘I get to wake up!’

  

  Erykah Badu
  • Up
  • Morning
  • Wake Up

• All writing is communication; creative writing is communication through revelation-it is the Self-escaping into the open.

  

  E. B. White
  • Writing
  • Communication
  • Escaping

• Ethics and I had crossed paths recently, and I’m not sure that I fell on the right side of the morality line.

  

  S.C. Stephens
  • Ethics

• Washington society has always demanded less and given more than any society in this country--demanded less of applause, deference,etiquette, and has accepted as current coin quick wit, appreciative tact, and a talent for talking.

  

  M. E. W. Sherwood
  • Country
  • Society
  • Talking

• Every face, every shop, bedroom window, public-house, and dark square is a picture feverishly turned--in search of what? It is the same with books. What do we seek through millions of pages?

  

  Virginia Woolf
  • Book
  • House
  • Dark

• Knowing others is intelligence; knowing yourself is true wisdom. Mastering others is strength; mastering yourself is true power.

  

  Lao Tzu
  • Wisdom
  • Knowing
  • Intelligence

• For to define true madness, What is't but to be nothing else but mad?

  

  William Shakespeare
  • Truth
  • Mad
  • Madness

• It's important to understand the work that's being done, and to make sure it's actually helping. And sometimes, by working on it myself, I get a better grasp of the challenges and complexities of the task, and I'm able to talk about it better. That's why a balance of actual work and awareness is good, because they feed each other.

  

  Régine Alexandra Chassagne Arcade Fire
  • Important
  • Done
  • Balance

• The self-indulgent man craves for all pleasant things... and is led by his appetite to choose these at the cost of everything else.

  

  Aristotle
  • Man
  • Things
  • Pleasant

• It is a great, a pleasant thing to have a friend with whom to walk, untroubled, through the woods, by the stream, saying nothing, at peace--the heart all clean and quiet and empty, ready for the spirit that may choose to be its guest.

  

  Catherine Drinker Bowen
  • Friend
  • Have
  • Pleasant

• I care about reading, a lot. It's a big part of my life.

  

  Josh Radnor
  • Life
  • Reading
  • Part

• There are millions of eligible students who are not getting services. We have got to correct that. At its face value, it's wrong.

  

  Jeff Cohen
  • Students
  • Millions
  • Services

• We never reflect how pleasant it is to ask for nothing.

  

  Seneca the Younger
  • Asks
  • Pleasant