Seneca the Younger (Seneca) Quotes
Quotes to Explore
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Workplaces still operate like it's 1962 and one person is always at home, and they are not very good at adjusting for the fact that a majority of women work and take care of children.
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You see I found I didn't have to act to be happy.
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I love New York, and I'm drawn to a certain intensity of life, but I've just never felt like I want to escape from the Midwest. A writer lives a great deal in his own head, and so one intuitively finds places where your head is more clear. New York for me is one of those places.
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I was so excited to work with Ridley Scott. Who wouldn't be?
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I used to spend my holidays there in my grandparents' large family house, with my numerous cousins. When I die, I am going to be buried in the village cemetery.
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I think vampires are a timeless powerful archetype that can tap into people's psyches.
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I was nearly 40 when I started. I had no fear that I wasn't going to write. I knew it was just delayed. Then, my goodness, I never stopped.
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The fundamental deception of Satan is the lie that obedience can never bring happiness.
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Nothing is forgotten in the processes of idealization. Reveries of idealization develop, not by letting oneself be taken in by memories, but by constantly dreaming the values of a being whom one would love. And that is the way a great dreamer dreams his double. His magnified double sustains him.
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People go out to the vigil for their own individual reasons, but primarily it's to pay our respects and share our grief collectively.
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Neither earth nor ocean produces a creature as savage and monstrous as woman.
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Satyagraha has been designed as an effective substitute for violence.
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Man's condition is horrible because, no matter what form his happiness may take, it arises from some species of ignorance.
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When lying, be emphatic and indignant, thus behaving like your children.
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Before I left China, I was educated that China was the richest, happiest country in the world. So when I arrived Australia, I thought, 'Oh my God, everything is different from what I was told.' Since then, I started to think differently.
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My mother had a rule, obviously, that I couldn't go across the street by myself, but I had to find a way of doing it.
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An unpopular rule is never long maintained.
