Seneca Reality Quotes

we suffer more in imagination than in reality

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The mind that is anxious about future events is miserable.

- Seneca

We become wiser by adversity; prosperity destroys our appreciation of the right.

- Seneca

The good things of prosperity are to be wished; but the good things that belong to adversity are to be admired.

- Seneca

Light troubles speak, The weighty are struck dumb.

- Seneca

True happiness is to enjoy the present, without anxious dependence upon the future

- Seneca

As long as you live, keep learning how to live.

- Seneca

Life, if well lived, is long enough

- Seneca

We should always allow some time to elapse, for time discloses the truth.

- Seneca

What you think of yourself is much more important than what others think of you.

- Seneca

While we wait for life, Life passes

- Seneca

Everything we hear is an opinion, not a fact. Everything we see is a perspective, not the truth.

- Marcus Aurelius

On the internet, you can never be quite sure who said what

- Jessica Valenti

Man is not worried by real problems so much as by his imagined anxieties about real problems.

- Epictetus

The frog in the well knows nothing of the sea

- Japanese Proverbs

Remembrance of things past is not necessarily the remembrance of things as they were.

- Marcel Proust

The biggest communication problem is we do not listen to understand. We listen to reply.

- Anonymous

Every battle first won in mind, then in reality

- Anonymous

As long as you have certain desires about how it ought to be you can't see how it is.

- Ram dass

The appearance of things changes according to the emotions; and thus we see magic and beauty in them, while the magic and beauty are really in ourselves.

- Kahlil Gibran

Time and tide wait for none.

- Anonymous