Quote from Seneca:
"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."
Simimal Quotes:
Seneca
A consciousness of wrongdoing is the first step to salvation…you have to catch yourself doing it before you can correct it.
Seneca
These individuals have riches just as we say that we "have a fever" when really the fever has us.
Seneca
Philosophy's power to blunt all the blows of circumstance is beyond belief.
Seneca
The wise man then followed a simple way of life—which is hardly surprising when you consider how even in this modern age he seeks to be as little encumbered as he possibly can.
Friedrich Nietzsche
Shedding one's skin. The snake that cannot shed its skin perishes. So do the spirits who are prevented from changing their opinions; they cease to be spirit.
Seneca
"The philosopher: he alone knows how to live for himself. He is the one, in fact, who knows the fundamental thing: how to live."
Wayne Dyer
If you’ve ever felt inspired by a purpose or calling, you know the feeling of Spirit working through you. Inspired is our word for in-spirited.
Walter Russell
There is no violent surface indication of the ecstasy which great thinkers alone enjoy. There is nothing dramatic about it, but there is some subtle light in the eye of the inspired one, or some even more subtle quiet emanation which surrounds the inspired thinker, which tells you that you are in the presence of one who has bridged the gap which separates the mundane world from the world of spirit.
Seneca
Just where death is expecting you is something we cannot know; so, for your part, expect him everywhere.
Ernest Holmes
It is necessary for us to understand that the only Active Principle is Spirit.
Seneca
What is required is not a lot words, but effectual ones.