Quotes reflecting the Personal Seneca Time is too slow for those who wait, too swift for

those who fear, too long for those who grieve, too short for those who rejoice, but for those who love, time is eternity. Roman Payne Its not that we have to quite life one day, its how many things we have to quit all at once: holding hands, hotel rooms, music, the physics of falling leaves, vanilla, anthills, poppies, literature, candles and subway trainsif only one could leave this life slowly. Andrew Marvell (From To His Coy Mistress) And your quaint honour turn to dust. And into ashes all my lust: The graves a fine and private place, But none, I think, do there embrace Simone de Beauvoir Sex pleasure in woman is a kind of magic spell; it demands complete abandon; if words or movements oppose the magic of caresses, the spell is broken. The word love has by no means the same sense for both sexes, and this is one cause of the serious misunderstandings that divide them. I am incapable of conceiving infinity, and yet I do not accept finity. Defending the truth is not something one does out of a sense of duty or to allay guilt complexes, but is a reward in itself. George Santayana Our character...is an omen of our destiny, and the more integrity we have and keep, the simpler and nobler that destiny is likely to be. Happiness is the only sanction of life; where happiness fails, existence remains a mad and lamentable experiment.

Jacques Casanova de Seingalt (Memoirs) A prejudiced mind cannot reason well. (The young countess) Love is only a feeling of curiosity more or less intense, grafted upon the inclination placed in us by nature that the species may be preserved. (Ch 7) Cheating is a crime, but honest cunning may be considered as a species of prudence. (Ch 8) Oh! Charming simplicity! Offspring of wit and ignorance, thy charm is delightful, and thou alone hast the privilege of saying anything without ever giving offence. But how unpleasant thou art when thou art not natural! And thou art the masterpiece of art when thou art imitated with perfection! (Ch 19) However wonderful it may appear, silliness is the daughter of wit. (Ch:28) The pleasure which follows desire is the best, for it is the most acute. (said by Marchioness Chigi regarding Horace Ch 132) By recollecting the pleasures formerly, I renew them. I enjoy them a second time, while I laugh at the remembrance of troubles now past, and which I no longer feel. Aeschylus Boldness of speech never became the weak. (The suppliants) When one is willing and eager, the gods join in. Aristotle Character is habitual action To be conscious that we are perceiving or thinking is to be conscious of our own existence. A friend is a second self. Anybody can become angry - that is easy, but to be angry with the right person and to the right degree and at the right time and for the right purpose, and in the right way - that is not within everybody's power and is not easy.

Courage is the first of human qualities because it is the quality, which guarantees the others. Excellence is an art won by training and habituation. We do not act rightly because we have virtue or excellence, but we rather have those because we have acted rightly. We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act but a habit. For one swallow does not make a summer, nor does one day; and so too one day, or a short time, does not make a man blessed and happy. Good habits formed at youth make all the difference. It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it. No excellent soul is exempt from a mixture of madness. Personal beauty is a greater recommendation than any letter of reference. Poetry is finer and more philosophical than history; for poetry expresses the universal, and history only the particular. The secret to humor is surprise. The soul never thinks without a picture. The ultimate value of life depends upon awareness and the power of contemplation rather than upon mere survival The vices respectively fall short of or exceed what is right in both passions and actions, while virtue both finds and chooses that which is intermediate. The whole is more than the sum of its parts. To run away from trouble is a form of cowardice and, while it is true that the suicide braves death, he does it not for some noble object but to escape some ill.

Well begun is half done. Wit is educated insolence. Without friends no one would choose to live, though he had all other goods. You will never do anything in this world without courage. It is the greatest quality of the mind next to honor. Youth is easily deceived because it is quick to hope. We must as second best...take the least of the evils. He who has overcome his fears will truly be free. Anon If you have an honest mind and are prepared to look at the truth, it can be understood. In order to love someone you must believe you see into his or her heart. A mother does this from the moment of birth of her child, a lover after desire. Those who take pleasure in seeing others happy are in themselves fulfilled. The most powerful word in any language is why. In societies where a persons right to question is accepted the use of this word leads to understanding and abundance. Where free use of the word is frowned upon, sacred dogma cannot be questioned, individual right is suppressed. Henry Wadsworth Longfellow If you would hit the mark, you must aim a little above it; every arrow that flies feels the attraction of earth. Bertrand Piccard I deeply believe that the worst thing in life is not to fail: it is not to try. Arthur Schopenhaur Talent hits a target no one else can hit; Genius hits a target no one else can see.

Benjamin Franklin If passion drives you, let reason hold the reins. James A Froude The practical effect of a belief is the real test of its soundness. William Hazlitt Genius is a native to the soil where it grows - is fed by the air, and warmed by the sun; and is not a hothouse plant or an exotic If you think you can win, you can. Faith is necessary to victory As is our confidence, so is our capacity A strong passion for any object will ensure success, for the desire of the end will point out the means Great thoughts reduced to practice become great acts Prejudice is the child of ignorance. Prosperity is a great teacher; adversity is a greater Fashion is gentility running away from vulgarity and afraid of being overtaken Prejudice is never easy unless it can pass itself off for reason Andre Breton It is living and ceasing to live which are imaginary solutions. Existence is everywhere. Ross Macdonald If you withdraw your spirit deep into yourself and out of sight, it couldnt be completely destroyed. But it might go blind in the internal darkness. (Sleeping Beauty Ch. 14) Rilke If your daily life seems poor, do not blame it; Blame yourself that you are not poet enough to call forth its riches; for the Creator, there is no poverty. Abraham Lincoln

When I do good, I feel good; When I do bad, I feel bad. And that is my religion. Albert Camus I would rather live my life as if there is a god and die to find out there isnt, than live my life as if there isnt and die to find out there is. Ivan Turgenev A poet must be a psychologist; but a secret one. He should know and feel the roots of phenomena but must only present the phenomena themselves in full bloom or as they fade away. Carl Sagan Imagination will often carry us to worlds that never were. But without it we go nowhere. David Hawkins (Power vs Force) There are no causes within the observable world..the observable world is a world of effects. V Prabhakan Fear is the outcome of weakness, a cowards friend, an enemy of firmness. Fear of death is the cause of all human fears. One who wins the fear of death wins himself. He is the one who wins the freedom from his mental prison. Buddha If we could see the miracle of a single flower clearly, our whole life would change. Holding on to anger is like grasping a hot coal with the intent of throwing it at someone else; you are the one who gets burned Through zeal, knowledge is gotten, through lack of zeal, knowledge is lost; let a man who knows this double path of gain and loss thus place himself that knowledge may grow.

To keep the body in good health is a duty, for otherwise we shall not be able to trim the lamp of wisdom, and keep our mind strong and clear. Water surrounds the lotus flower, but does not wet its petals. Anger will never disappear so long as thoughts of resentment are cherished in the mind. Anger will disappear just as soon as thoughts of resentment are forgotten. Unity can only be manifested by the Binary. Unity itself and the idea of Unity are already two. In separateness lies the world's great misery, in compassion lies the world's true strength. To live a pure unselfish life, one must count nothing as one's own in the midst of abundance. The greatest gift is to give people your enlightenment, to share it. It has to be the greatest. The greatest prayer is patience. A wise man, recognizing that the world is but an illusion, does not act as if it is real, so he escapes the suffering. There are two mistakes one can make along the road to truth...not going all the way, and not starting. Ambition is like love, impatient both of delays and rivals. Teach this triple truth to all: A generous heart, kind speech, and a life of service and compassion are the things which renew humanity. There is nothing so disobedient as an undisciplined mind, and there is nothing so obedient as a disciplined mind. It is better to conquer yourself than to win a thousand battles. Then the victory is yours. It cannot be taken from you, not by angels or by demons, heaven or hell. Your work is to discover your world and then with all your heart give yourself to it. To be idle is a short road to death and to be diligent is a way of life; foolish people are idle, wise people are diligent.

Have compassion for all beings, rich and poor alike; each has their suffering. Some suffer too much, others too little Just as treasures are uncovered from the earth, so virtue appears from good deeds, and wisdom appears from a pure and peaceful mind. To walk safely through the maze of human life, one needs the light of wisdom and the guidance of virtue Do not believe in anything simply because you have heard it. Do not believe in anything simply because it is spoken and rumored by many. Do not believe in anything simply because it is found written in your religious books. Do not believe in anything merely on the authority of your teachers and elders. Do not believe in traditions because they have been handed down for many generations. But after observation and analysis, when you find that anything agrees with reason and is conducive to the good and benefit of one and all, then accept it and live up to it. Health is the greatest gift, contentment the greatest wealth, faithfulness the best relationship. Being deeply learned and skilled, being well trained and using well spoken words; This is good luck You should respect each other and refrain from disputes; you should not, like water and oil, repel each other, but should, like milk and water, mingle together. There is no fire like passion, there is no shark like hatred, there is no snare like folly, and there is no torrent like greed. Endurance is one of the most difficult disciplines, but it is to the one who endures that the final victory comes. Being generous, just helping one's relatives and being blameless in one's actions; this is the best good luck. Teach this triple truth to all: A generous heart, kind speech, and a life of service and compassion are the things which renew humanity. The Buddhas do but tell the way; it is for you to swelter at the task. What is the noble truth of suffering? Birth is suffering, ageing is suffering and sorrow and lamentation, pain, grief and despair are suffering.

Henry Miller Imagination is the voice of daring, If there is anything Godlike about God it is that. He dared to imagine everything. Ralph Waldo Emerson Nothing is at last sacred, but the integrity of your own mind. Why should we make account of time, or of magnitude, or of figure? The soul knows how to play with them as a young child plays with graybeards and in churches. The world is nothing, the man is all; in yourself is the law of all nature, and you know not yet how a globule of sap ascends; in yourself slumbers the whole of Reason; it is for you to know all, it is for you to dare all. All I have seen teaches me to trust the Creator for all I have not seen Johann Wolfgang von Goethe He is happiest, be he king or peasant, who finds peace in his own home. William Blake A truth thats told with bad intent beats all the lies you can invent Albert Camus A mans work is nothing but a slow trek to rediscover, through the detours of art, those two or three great and simple images in whose presence his heart first opened. Stephane Mallarme That virgin, vital, beautiful day: today. Abigail Van Buren Loneliness is the ultimate poverty. George Bernard Shaw When a thing is funny, search it carefully for a hidden truth. Saul Bellow

A man is only as good as what he loves. Samuel Johnson Do not accustom yourself to use big words for little matters. Curiosity is one of the permanent and certain characteristics of a vigorous mind. We are inclined to believe those whom we do not know because they have never deceived us. Almost all absurdity of conduct arises from the imitation of those whom we cannot resemble. Integrity without knowledge is weak and useless, and knowledge without integrity is dangerous and dreadful. It is better to suffer wrong than to do it, and happier to be sometimes cheated than not to trust. Self-confidence is the first requisite to great undertakings. Silence propagates itself, and the longer talk has been suspended, the more difficult it is to find anything to say A man is very apt to complain of the ingratitude of those who have risen far above him. There are, in every age, new errors to be rectified and new prejudices to be opposed. People need to be reminded more often than they need to be instructed. Ovid The glow of inspiration warms us; it is a holy rapture. Francis Bacon Natural abilities are like natural plants; they need pruning by study. Ayn Rand In learning, we draw an abstract from concrete objects and events. In creating we make our own concrete objects and events out of an abstraction. (Notes dates May 4, 1946)

John Hope Dissatisfaction with possession and achievement is one of the requisites to further achievement. Ernest Hemingway For a long time now I have tried simply to write the best I can. Sometimes I have good luck and write better than I can.