Seneca the Younger (Seneca) Quotes
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I learned from my dad that change and experimentation are constants and important. You have to keep trying new things.
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There's a lot of good musicians who are unheard of. Get it down before they pass away.
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I wrote a lot of poetry that was based on stories of the sea and I was really inspired by that.
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I think everybody would love to say they were in a movie. Whether or not I'm any good at it, I don't know.
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How you gon' win when you ain't right within. Uh uh come again
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I don't give up easily. I have plans to be around for a while.
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We must alter our lives in order to alter our hearts, for it is impossible to live one way and pray another.
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Since I've been here, they've made great decisions. And I'm sure they'll make the right decision here.
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Even a little of dharma saves one from many a pitfall.
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Every person, on coming to the knowledge of himself, is not only urged to seek God, but is also led as by the hand to find Him.
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It's taken me 40-something years, but I embrace the curl. My littlest daughter has the same hair. She likes it when my hair is curly, so I wear it for her.
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It has been a long road from Plato's Meno to the present, but it is perhaps encouraging that most of the progress along that road has been made since the turn of the twentieth century, and a large fraction of it since the midpoint of the century. Thought was still wholly intangible and ineffable until modern formal logic interpreted it as the manipulation of formal tokens. And it seemed still to inhabit mainly the heaven of Platonic ideals, or the equally obscure spaces of the human mind, until computers taught us how symbols could be processed by machines.
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True inspiration overrides all fears. When you are inspired, you enter a trance state and can accomplish things that you may never have felt capable of doing.
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You're being mean to someone who's helping you. What is that? Everyone knows who the assholes are, and I avoid them.
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Life is full of acceptance and rejection. Unfortunately, many of us focus on the rejection. Yoga tells us it’s more useful to practice swaha, the idea of which is do the best you can, and let go of the rest. Tibetan Buddhists often translate swaha as “so be it.” Swaha is the rudder that can help us maintain equilibrium.
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Our fears are always more numerous than our dangers.
