Seneca the Younger (Seneca) Quotes

The mind should be allowed some relaxation, that it may return to its work all the better for the rest.

Seneca the Younger

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• I was 21 in 1968, so I'm as much a child of the '60s as is possible to be. In those years the subject of religion had really almost disappeared; the idea that religion was going to be a major force in the life of our societies, in the West anyway, would have seemed absurd in 1968.

  

  Salman Rushdie
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• Modeling gave me so many experiences, like traveling and being exposed to global cultures, but the most valuable lesson has been working with designers who truly are visionaries in their field.

  

  Iman
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• I am not musically educated yet. I don't read - I make my own language that works for myself. But I play by ear.

  

  Imelda May
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• There are three orchestras in Munich, all world-quality, in a city of one million. Yet every hall is full.

  

  Zubin Mehta
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• What I would say about Barney Eastwood is that when our relationship worked, it worked extremely well. He had a lot of strengths as a promoter and a manager.

  

  Barry McGuigan
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• I had never auditioned for Broadway - any play - and I was not familiar with what you're supposed to do.

  

  Ednita Nazario
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• When I was younger, I used to pray that I would die before my mom. That's just how much my mom meant to me. I couldn't imagine being in this world without her. But then seeing cancer - seeing what it can do to somebody - as strong and as tough as she was, there was nothing she could do. Cancer is a dirty, dirty deal.

  

  Dak Prescott
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• There's something universal about illness... Whether you like it, at some level all patients are saying, 'Daddy, Mommy, help me, tell me it's going to be alright.'

  

  Abraham Verghese
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• I travel like a gypsy, and I didn't know how I could perform and be a mother.

  

  Natalia Makarova
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• We see an entire planet which has many limitations.

  

  Ralph Merkle
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• Something is missing in our culture. We can't quite celebrate the scientific literary tradition.

  

  Ian Mcewan
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• Being married and having a child was not something I wanted, and I knew that at a very young age. I tend to be more solitary, and I'm truly a free spirit.

  

  Patricia Clarkson
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• The journey that 'In Praise of Slowness' has made since publication shows how far this message resonates. The book has been translated into more than 30 languages. It appears on reading lists from business schools to yoga retreats. Rabbis, priests and imams have quoted from it in their sermons.

  

  Carl Honore
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• Es ist so bequem, unmündig zu sein. Habe ich ein Buch, das für mich Verstand hat, einen Seelsorger, der für mich Gewissen hat, einen Arzt, der für mich die Diät beurtheilt u. s. w., so brauche ich mich ja nicht selbst zu bemühen. Ich habe nicht nöthig zu denken, wenn ich nur bezahlen kann.

  

  Immanuel Kant
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• Nobody represents America’s values better than the American people, and I believe this contact will ultimately do more to empower the Cuban people.

  

  Barack Obama
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• Why don't you sit right down and stay awhile? We like the same things and I like your style Its not a secret; why do you keep it? I'm just sitting on the shelf

  

  Zooey Deschanel
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• Speaking our language, you will understand us-and if you can think as another man thinks, you cannot dislike him.

  

  Jack Vance

• The neurosis of normality is a case of repetition compulsion caused by the repression of awareness.

  

  Sam Keen

• Sometimes there is no darker place than our thoughts, the moonless midnight of the mind.

  

  Dean Koontz
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• A ruffled mind makes a restless pillow.

  

  Charlotte Bronte
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• What I love about believing in a living God is that I believe God is constantly revealing God's self to us over time, and with each succeeding generation, we come a little closer to understanding the mind of God.

  

  Gene Robinson
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• Leaders are meant to lead from the front, but at the same time, they are also meant to listen to what their followers are saying.

  

  Cyril Ramaphosa
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• Growing up, I had my mom to look up to; J. Lo and Marilyn Monroe were notable curvy women. But I didn't have anyone with cellulite or back fat telling me they didn't care.

  

  Ashley Graham
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• The mind should be allowed some relaxation, that it may return to its work all the better for the rest.

  

  Seneca the Younger
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