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

• You don't have to find out you're dying to start living.

  

  Zach Sobiech
  • Life
  • Dying
  • Live Life

• 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

• And be silent for the most part, or else make only the most necessary remarks, and express these in few words. But rarely, and when occasion requires you to talk, talk, indeed, but about no ordinary topics. Do not talk about gladiators, or horseraces, or athletes, or things to eat or drink - topics that arise on all occasions; but above all, do not talk about people, either blaming, or praising, or comparing them.

  

  Epictetus
  • Silent
  • Athletes
  • Gladiators

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

  

  Blaise Pascal
  • Acknowledge
  • Many Things
  • Last Step

• As the middle class is predated upon with an ever greater malicious intensity, their children stand to lose more and harder than their parents ever did.

  

  Henry Rollins Black Flag
  • Children
  • Parent
  • Class

• When you stop being so afraid of failing you become much more free to succeed

  

  Rich Mullins
  • Succeed
  • Failing

• You change people by delight, by pleasure.

  

  Thomas Aquinas
  • People
  • Change
  • Delight

• Every change of place becomes a delight.

  

  Seneca the Younger
  • Delight