Seneca the Younger Quotes

Comfort in expressing your emotions will allow you to share the best of yourself with others, but not being able to control your emotions will reveal your worst.

I hold a lot of things in. I'm always making sure everybody is okay. I usually don't rage; I usually don't curse. So for me, it's a great thing to be able to scream and say whatever I want.

The way I work emotionally is: I don't ever try to cry. I try not to, which is what for me produces organic emotion.

If I'm uncomfortable, you'd never know.

Don't let the good days get to your head, and don't let the bad days get to your heart.

Now you see,' said the turtle, drifting back into the pond, 'why it is useless to cry. Your tears do not wash away your sorrows. They feed someone else's joy. And that is why you must learn to swallow your own tears.

Mama learned to laugh with them, before they could laugh at her, and to do it so well no one could be sure what she really thought or felt.

God made both tears and laughter, and both for kind purposes; for as laughter enables mirth and surprise to breathe freely, so tears enable sorrow to vent itself patiently. Tears hinder sorrow from becoming despair and madness.

For you know that it's a fool who plays it cool, by making his world a little colder.

If you would write emotionally, be first unemotional. If you would move your readers to tears, do not let them see you cry.

Next time you're tempted to be upset, frustrated, offended, remind yourself, it's a part of that ten percent of things in life that you can't control - but you can control how you respond.

Many a man gets weary of clamping down on his rough impulses, which if given occasional release would encourage the living of life with salt in it, in place of dust.

When adversity strikes, that's when you have to be the most calm. Take a step back, stay strong, stay grounded and press on.

It's no accident many accuse me of conducting public affairs with my heart instead of my head. Well, what if I do? Those who don't know how to weep with their whole heart don't know how to laugh either.

It's difficult for me to really temper my personality, but I am trying to be a little more sensible about it. If I really lose my temper, I go to my room and scream and shout, but I try not to lose it on people any more. I've never said something mean just like that. I've only said things in retaliation.

When I was younger, I thought I had to shut myself off, work really hard to cry. I learned after a while that that's just not... You know, often in life, you cry when you're caught off-guard. That's where I need to be when I'm acting, too.

My humour has always come from anger, but I have to make sure I don't just get angry and jump on a soapbox.

I tend to wear my emotions on my sleeve. I've had my share of mood swings, believe me. But it's a powerful thing when you realize that you have dominion over your behavior and your passions.

I'm much softer than people think. I don't present to the world an emotional face. I'm pretty good at self-control, but I am easily moved.

There's fear in everything, but we can't just succumb to that. We have to suppress it, so we get used to suppressing fear to make it through the our day. Otherwise, we'd become paralyzed by them.

I don't let things stress me out, and I'm doing my best with all the battles life presents.

Tears are the symbol of the inability of the soul to restrain its emotion and retain its self command.

People expect me to cry, but I always laugh when things go wrong.

As a young child, I was never a crier. I never cried to get my way, or even when I was in pain.

Those who don't know how to weep with their whole heart, don't know how to laugh either.