Life Quotes Quote by Seneca — Inspiring Words on Life, Love & Wisdom

“If one does not know to which port is sailing, no wind is favorable.”

“It is the power of the mind to be unconquerable.”

“Luck is what happens when preparation meets opportunity.”

“No man was ever wise by chance.”

“We suffer more often in imagination than in reality”

“Things that were hard to bear are sweet to remember.”

““My eyes were glued on life”

“When deeds and words are in accord, the whole world is transformed.”

“For the first time in a long time I thought about Maman. I felt as if I understood why at the end of her life she had taken a 'fiancé,' why she had played at beginning again. Even there, in that home where lives were fading out, evening was a kind of wistful respite. So close to death, Maman must have felt free then and ready to live it all again. Nobody, nobody had the right to cry over her. And I felt ready to live it all again too.”

“All the world's a stage and most of us are desperately unrehearsed.”

“He allowed himself to be swayed by his conviction that human beings are not born once and for all on the day their mothers give birth to them, but that life obliges them over and over again to give birth to themselves.”