Seneca the Younger Quotes About Attitude
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The place one's in, though, doesn't make any contribution to peace of mind: it's the spirit that makes everything agreeable to oneself.
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What's the good of dragging up sufferings which are over, of being unhappy now just because you were then.
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A man is as unhappy as he has convinced himself he is.
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Principles are like seeds; they are little things which do much good, if the mind that receives them has the right attitudes.
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It is not because things are difficult that we do not dare; it is because we do not dare that things are difficult
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Cling tooth and nail to the following rule: Not to give in to adversity, never to trust prosperity, and always to take full note of fortune's habit of behaving just as she pleases, treating her as if she were actually going to do everything it is in her power to do. Whatever you have been expecting for some time comes as less of a shock.
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There is nothing the wise man does reluctantly.
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Everything hangs on one's thinking.
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True happiness is to enjoy the present, without anxious dependence upon the future, not to amuse ourselves with either hopes or fears but to rest satisfied with what we have, which is sufficient, for he that is so wants nothing. The greatest blessings of mankind are within us and within our reach. A wise man is content with his lot, whatever it may be, without wishing for what he has not.
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It is part of the cure to wish to be cured.
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