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
  • inspirational
  • 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

• Never be frightened! Be fearless! There is no room for fear. Fear is death, fear is sin, fear is hell, fear is adharma and fear is disloyalty. All delusions emanate from this evil called fear.

  

  Asaram
  • Fear
  • Frightened
  • Delusions

• No government has the right to decide on the truth of scientific principles, nor to prescribe in any way the character of the questions investigated. Neither may a government determine the aesthetic value of artistic creations, nor limit the forms of literacy or artistic expression. Nor should it pronounce on the validity of economic, historic, religious, or philosophical doctrines. Instead it has a duty to its citizens to maintain the freedom, to let those citizens contribute to the further adventure and the development of the human race.

  

  Richard Feynman
  • Character
  • Creation
  • Economic

• One of the great beauties of architecture is that each time, it is like life starting all over again.

  

  Renzo Piano
  • Design
  • Architecture
  • Starting

• 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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