Seneca the Younger Quotes

Somewhere deep down there's a decent man in me, he just can't be found.

Some of the greatest battles will be fought within the silent chambers of your own soul.

Know that you are your greatest enemy, but also your greatest friend.

I look at that person and I'm like, That's not Kelli White. That's not who I am, who I started out to be.

Every fight is personal, but with myself.

It's just like, damn - I'm competing with myself.

A conscience is a troublesome thing at times. I woke up at 4 o'clock this morning and I spent the time feeling what a nothing I was, and wishing I was so very different. Then the morning's post brought me a letter from a friend, saying I was so this, so that - it made me really cry, I was so grateful.

I'm not good," he said, piercing me with eyes that absorbed all light but reflected none, "but I was worse.

The Ideal is in thyself, the impediments too is in thyself.

I'm a horrible person. And it's just coming out in my work.

I was just struggling with my inner vachette and pondering the depths of my own inhumanity.

I wonder how I seem to them. They must see someone I don't see. Someone capable and strong. Someone I can't be; someone I can be.

The world's most sensible person and the biggest idiot both stay within us. The worst part is, you can't even tell who is who.

We all have them, those parts of us that are the greatest parts of us and the worst parts of us. Sometimes we're put in circumstances and bad choices are made.

The only history is a mere question of one's struggle inside oneself. But that is the joy of it. One need neither discover Americas nor conquer nations, and yet one has as great a work as Columbus or Alexander, to do.

I was not fighting myself at all as I used to.

It is a true miracle when a man finally sees himself as his only opposition.

Sometimes you have to confront your demons and sometimes even let them loose to genuinely find a place where you can gain some understanding.

I started second-guessing myself and was always questioning myself. I have really learned a lot.

Life is a quarry, out of which we are to mold and chisel and complete a character.

It was completely fruitless to quarrel with the world, whereas the quarrel with oneself was occasionally fruitful and always, she had to admit, interesting.

The only one who can beat me is me.

I like stories where people have to face some big demons internally. It always seems to be an element of horror, because it's pretty scary to have to face yourself and the things you're most worried about: your own abilities and your own capabilities and your own level of competence in being a hero.

I sometimes truly despair at ever being meaningfully altered and affected by the things I claim are so important to me.

When I read profiles of myself, I sometimes think: 'I have spent my whole life struggling to understand my motivations and impulses, and I've never quite sorted them out.'