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#1

“Sometimes even to live is an act of courage.”
― Lucius Annaeus Seneca

tags: perseverance, suicide, survival

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#2

“We suffer more often in imagination than in reality”
― Lucius Annaeus Seneca

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#3

“Difficulties strengthen the mind, as labor does the body.”
― Lucius Annaeus Seneca

tags: adversity, challenges, character, inspirational

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#4

“As is a tale, so is life: not how long it is, but how good it is, is what matters.”
― Seneca

tags: inspirational

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#5

“If a man knows not to which port he sails, no wind is favorable.”
― Seneca the Younger

tags: goals

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#6

“It is not the man who has too little, but the man who craves more, that is poor. ”
― Seneca

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#7

“He who is brave is free”
― Seneca

tags: bravery, courage, freedom, gallantry

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#8

“What need is there to weep over parts of life? The whole of it calls for tears.”
― Lucius Annaeus Seneca

tags: life-philosophy

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#9

“No man was ever wise by chance”
― Seneca

tags: philosophy

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#10

“They lose the day in expectation of the night, and the night in fear of the dawn.”
― Seneca, On the Shortness of Life: Life Is Long if You Know How to Use It

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#11

“I shall never be ashamed of citing a bad author if the line is good.”
― seneca, Peace of Mind: De Tranquillitate Animi

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#12

“If you live in harmony with nature you will never be poor; if you live according what others think, you will never be rich.”
― Seneca, Letters from a Stoic

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#13

“As long as you live, keep learning how to live.”
― Lucius Annaeus Seneca

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#14

“Wealth is the slave of a wise man. The master of a fool ”
― Seneca, Moral Essays, Volume I: De Providentia. De Constantia. De Ira. De Clementia

tags: wealth

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#15

“While we wait for life, life passes”
― Seneca

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#16

“But life is very short and anxious for those who forget the past, neglect the present, and fear the future.”
― Seneca, On the Shortness of Life

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#17

“Fire tests gold, suffering tests brave men.”
― Seneca

tags: fire, grief, hardship, misfortune, sorrow, suffering

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#18

“Music is the melody whose text is the world.”
― Arthur Schopenhauer

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#19

“The first peace, which is the most important, is that which comes within the souls of people when they realize their relationship, their oneness with the universe and all its powers, and when they realize at the center of the universe dwells the Great Spirit, and that its center is really everywhere, it is within each of us.”
― Black Elk

tags: body, mind, peace, spirit, spirituality, wisdom

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#20

“The Holy Land is everywhere”
― Black Elk

tags: conservation, ecology, environmentalism, native-american, religion, spirituality

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#21

“Crazy Horse dreamed and went into the world where there is nothing but the spirits of all things. That is the real world that is behind this one, and everything we see here is something like a shadow from that one.”
― Black Elk, Black Elk Speaks: Being the Life Story of a Holy Man of the Oglala Sioux

tags: black-elk, crazy, dreams, horse, philosophy, real-world, reality, spirituality

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#22

“It is in the darkness of their eyes that men get lost”
― Black Elk, Black Elk Speaks: Being the Life Story of a Holy Man of the Oglala Sioux

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#23

“When a vision comes from the thunder beings of the west, it comes with terror like a thunder storm; but when the storm of vision has passed, the world is greenier and happier; for wherever the truth of vision comes upon the world, it is like a rain. The world, you see, is happier after the terror of the storm.”
― Black Elk, Black Elk Speaks: Being the Life Story of a Holy Man of the Oglala Sioux

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#24

“At the center of the universe dwells the Great Spirit. And that center is really everywhere. It is within each of us.”
― Black Elk

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#25

“Life can only be understood backwards; but it must be lived forwards.”
― Søren Kierkegaard

tags: future, life, past, reflection, understanding

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#26

“People understand me so poorly that they don't even understand my complaint about them not understanding me.”
― Søren Kierkegaard, The Journals of Kierkegaard

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#27

“The most common form of despair is not being who you are.”
― Søren Kierkegaard

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#28

“I see it all perfectly; there are two possible situations — one can either do this or that. My honest opinion and my friendly advice is this: do it or do not do it — you will regret both.”
― Soren Kierkegaard, Either/Or: A Fragment of Life

tags: life, regret

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#29

“The most painful state of being is remembering the future, particularly the one you'll never have.”
― Søren Kierkegaard

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#30

“What is a poet? An unhappy man who hides deep anguish in his heart, but whose lips are so formed that when the sigh and cry pass through them, it sounds like lovely music.... And people flock around the poet and say: 'Sing again soon' - that is, 'May new sufferings torment your soul but your lips be fashioned as before, for the cry would only frighten us, but the music, that is blissful.”
― Soren Kierkegaard, Either - Or

tags: poets

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