Quotes About Seneca Happiness

#1. True happiness is to understand our duties toward God and man; to enjoy the present, without anxious dependence on the future; not to amuse ourselves with either hopes or fears, but to rest satisfied with what we have, which is abundantly sufficient.

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#2. Humanity is fortunate, because no man is unhappy except by his own fault.

Seneca The Younger

#3. We are born under circumstances that would be favorable if we did not abandon them. It was nature's intention that there should be no need of great equipment for a good life: every individual can make himself happy.

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#4. If you look at something in the distance long enough, you eventually have to go there.

David Vann

#5. Your greatest difficulty is with yourself; for you are your own stumbling-block. You do not know what you want. You are better at approving the right course than at following it out. You see where the true happiness lies, but you have not the courage to attain it.

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#6. Never will there be a shortage of reasons for anxiety, whether born of happiness or misery; life will press on its way from one pursuit to another; leisure will never be enjoyed, though the prayer is constantly on our lips.

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#7. The true felicity of life is to be free from anxieties and pertubations; to understand and do our duties to God and man, and to enjoy the present without any serious dependence on the future.

Seneca The Younger

#8. There is no law of physics that says just because we're connected, there has to be this schism between our physical lives and our digital lives.

Astro Teller

#9. For the only safe harbour in this life's tossing, troubled sea is to refuse to be bothered about what the future will bring and to stand ready and confident, squaring the breast to take without skulking or flinching whatever fortune hurls at us.

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#10. Going into a shoot not fully knowing what I want to do - that excitement, that thing that happens, is just so powerful and makes such great pictures.

Terry Richardson

#11. Learn how to feel joy.

Seneca The Younger

#12. It is difficult to bring people to goodness with lessons, but it is easy to do so by example.

Seneca The Younger

#13. Whatever is to make us better and happy God has placed either openly before us or close to us.

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#14. I've been to two stadium gigs in my life. One was James Brown and the other was Pink Floyd. They both sounded the same. I couldn't tell the difference between James Brown and Pink Floyd. I've never liked stadiums.

Boz Burrell

#15. I've managed to stay alive out here in the Ruin because I'm a realist. I allow the truth to be the truth, no matter how much I might want it to be something else.

Jonathan Maberry

#16. The venn diagram of boys who don't like smart girls and boys you don't wanna date is a circle.

John Green

#17. As long as man is alive, he will always deem himself to be the light of the world, and consider his enemies as the darkness. And they will be thinking like that on both sides of the front.

Dmitry Glukhovsky

#18. Every one has time if he likes. Business runs after nobody: people cling to it of their own free will and think that to be busy is a proof of happiness.

Seneca The Younger

#19. The mind is a matter over every kind of fortune; itself acts in both ways, being the cause of its own happiness and misery.

Seneca The Younger

#20. Mania's premonitory signs are unusual acts of extravagance, manifested by the purchase of houses, and certain expensive and unnecessary articles of furniture.

Benjamin Rush

#21. Repose without stagnation is the state most favorable to happiness. "The great felicity of life," says Seneca, "is to be without perturbations.

Christian Nestell Bovee

#22. A good character is the only guarantee of everlasting, carefree happiness.

Seneca The Younger

#23. There is nothing in the world so much admired as a man who knows how to bear unhappiness with courage.
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#24. Happy is the man who can endure the highest and lowest fortune. He who has endured such vicissitudes with equanimity has deprived misfortune of its power.

Seneca The Younger

#25. Fear crawled inside him. The anger that was so close to the surface ripped at him with rabid teeth, but he managed to rein back the reaction.

Joey W. Hill

#26. In times of happiness, no point in shaking things up.
But in a time of crisis, the safest thing is change.

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#27. It is part of the cure to wish to be cured.

Seneca The Younger

#28. My mother and father have also raised five boys so they know there's only so much that can be controlled.

Henry Cavill

#29. If sensuality were happiness, beasts were happier than men; but human felicity is lodged in the soul, not in the flesh.

Seneca The Younger

#30. Wisdom allows nothing to be good that will not be so forever; no man to be happy but he that needs no other happiness than what he has within himself; no man to be great or powerful that is not master of himself.

Lucius Annaeus Seneca

#31. Where, then, lies the mistake, since all men crave the happy life? It is that they regard the means for producing happiness as happiness itself, and, while seeking happiness, they are really fleeing from it. For

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#32. Where fear is, happiness is not.

Lucius Annaeus Seneca

#33. Let us take pleasure in what we have received and make no comparison; no man will ever be happy if tortured by the greater happiness of another.

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