Seneca the Younger (Seneca) Quotes

What difference does it make, after all, what your position in life is if you dislike it yourself?

Seneca the Younger

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• I am told by others that I have a lateral-thinking, broad approach to problems, sometimes to my detriment. In school, my grades always suffered because I was continually mucking about with irrelevant side issues, which I often found to be more interesting.

  

  Barry Marshall
  • School
  • Interesting
  • Problems

• My parents were very pleased that I was in the army. The fact that I hated it somehow pleased them even more.

  

  Barry Humphries
  • Parents
  • Army
  • Very

• Strong ties with a particular place, the fact that something flourishes there and has a special smell or taste - all this is being lost.

  

  Ulrich Beck
  • Strong
  • Lost
  • Place

• Take these broken wings and learn to fly.

  

  Paul McCartney Paul McCartney and Wings
  • Broken
  • Fly
  • Wings

• Once a maggot, always a maggot.

  

  Christy Romano
  • Maggots

• Alex has got toughness about him. It's just that you spend so much time trying to find out what other people want, as opposed to doing what you got to do. You're trying to please everybody and do what everybody expects you to do. And the thing is, they ain't under the same gun.

  

  Gary Sheffield
  • People
  • Time
  • Trying

• The person we believe ourselves to be will always act in a manner consistent with our self-image.

  

  Brian Tracy
  • Believe
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  • Motivational

• I hate to disappoint my haters, but I'm not the least bit interested in being a man. I'm perfectly satisfied with the female role.

  

  Madalyn Murray O'Hair
  • Hate
  • Haters

• Tracy looks like he's injured to me. He just didn't seem to play with as much vigor.

  

  Phil Jackson
  • Play
  • Injured

• In China, especially in the cities, if someone fainted on the streets, or if someone was knocked over by a car, you'll find lots of gawkers and gloaters, but rarely will you find someone willing to extend a helping hand.

  

  Patrick Henry
  • Hand
  • Car
  • Hands

• And none of these people, not one of them, had loved any of the others well enough. Failures, he thought, we're all failures... He wanted his love to be the wine and bread, and the blood and flesh. He reached for her, a dangerous stranger in a city of dangerous strangers, but she turned away from him and walked unsteadily through the crowd. How many loveless people walk among the barely loved?

  

  Sherman Alexie
  • People
  • Love
  • Enough

• I am in that glorious position where I can redesign and re-package my own work.

  

  Cameron Mackintosh
  • Work
  • Position
  • Redesign

• I tell ya, with my wife, I got no sex life. Her favorite position is facing Bloomingdale's.

  

  Jack Roy
  • Life
  • Wife
  • Sex

• What difference does it make, after all, what your position in life is if you dislike it yourself?

  

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