Seneca the Younger (Seneca) Quotes

Every change of place becomes a delight.

Seneca the Younger

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• There's almost nothing you can't do with a cashew. Not only does it lend its nutty sweetness to savory dishes, it also gives desserts a deep richness.

  

  Kate Christensen
  • You
  • Deep
  • Sweetness

• No matter how bad things are, they could always be worse. Start finding gratitude for what might have happened, but didn't.

  

  Mac Anderson
  • Bad
  • Gratitude

• I don't work with an outline, except a vague one in my head, a general idea of character, place, arc... I'm like a composer with a symphony in their head: I can hear the music, I just have to figure out how to put it down on paper. But I don't always know where my stories are going when I begin.

  

  Said Sayrafiezadeh
  • Work
  • Music
  • Character

• If God were a Kantian, who would not have us till we came to Him from the purest and best motives, who could be saved?

  

  C. S. Lewis
  • God
  • Ifs
  • Motive

• What a deep faith in the rationality of the structure of the world and what a longing to understand even a small glimpse of the reason revealed in the world there must have been in Kepler and Newton to enable them to unravel the mechanism of the heavens in long years of lonely work!

  

  Albert Einstein
  • World
  • Faith
  • Longing

• I'm not comfortable with walking the red carpet in a tuxedo and seeing all the women with their boobs pushed up and all the men dressed as penguins - particularly when the subject of your film is the nature of violence and humanity.

  

  William Hurt
  • Men
  • Humanity
  • Violence

• In the face of unjust criticism we can become bitter or better; upset or understanding; hostile or humble; furious or forgiving.

  

  William Arthur Ward
  • Understanding
  • Humble
  • Forgiving

• He who wants, but doesn't act, is a pest.

  

  William Blake
  • Act
  • Wants
  • Pest

• I really want to try to become a great actress when I get older and continue to do what I'm doing now.

  

  Willow Shields
  • Trying
  • Want
  • Actresses

• Life should serve up its feast of experience in a series of courses.

  

  William Golding
  • Experience
  • Should
  • Courses

• The house was immaculate, as always, not a stray hair anywhere, not a flake of dandruff or a crumpled towel. Even the roses on the dining-room table held their breath. A kind of airless cleanliness that always made me want to sneeze.

  

  Sandra Cisneros
  • House
  • Kind
  • Rose

• Sometimes you just have to stop, take a deep breath and put things into perspective.

  

  Katrina Mayer
  • Stop
  • Perspective
  • Take

• Can you, who have always been used to serenity and order in a family, to rational, refined, and improving conversation, relinquish them, and launch into the whirlpool of frivolity, where the correct taste and the delicate sensibility which you possess must constantly be wounded...

  

  Hannah Webster Foster
  • Family
  • Conversation
  • Serenity

• Certainly, for time out of mind, an obsessive dwelling on happier former days has been synonymous with getting older, while it was the juvenescent who rushed with open arms to embrace the future.

  

  Will Self
  • Mind
  • Embrace
  • Obsessive

• It would be the greatest delight of the seraphs to pile up sand on the seashore or to pull weeds in a garden for all eternity, if they found out such was God's will. Our Lord himself teaches us to ask to do the will of God on earth as the saints do it in heaven: "Thy will be done on earth as it is in heaven."

  

  Alphonsus Liguori
  • Up
  • God
  • Done

• There is no first world and third world. There is only one world, for all of us to live and delight in.

  

  Gerald Durrell
  • World
  • Live
  • Delight

• Every change of place becomes a delight.

  

  Seneca the Younger
  • Delight