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
  • Violence
  • Humanity

• 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

• Life without literary studies is death.

  

  Seneca the Younger
  • Death
  • Literary

• When a woman opens up about her fertility struggles, I feel less alone, and I hope to help others in the same way.

  

  Virginia Williams
  • Help
  • Woman
  • Fertility

• Reason's last step is to acknowledge that there are infinitely many things beyond it.

  

  Blaise Pascal
  • Acknowledge
  • Many Things
  • Last Step

• Most of my close friends, growing up, were women - and even after I got married, I still maintained a lot of those friendships. But as they get married, and as I get older, I'm making a lot of the transition to the husbands.

  

  Andrew Gurland
  • Women
  • Friends
  • Growing Up

• I admit that when I think of the money one could make from all this, I get a little twinge. But I'm pretty happy with nerd values: Get yourself a comfortable living, then do a little something to change the world.

  

  Craig Newmark
  • World
  • Money
  • Happy

• 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

• I had gained the summit of a commanding ridge, and, looking round with astonishing delight, beheld the ample plains, the beauteous tracts below.

  

  Daniel Boone
  • Looking
  • Delight
  • Summit

• Every change of place becomes a delight.

  

  Seneca the Younger
  • Delight