Seneca the Younger Quotes

Her life was like running on a treadmill or riding on a stationary bike; it was aerobic, it was healthy, but she wasn't going anywhere.

it is always easier to do nothing than to try a new line of action.

I thought yesterday was the first day of the rest of my life but it turns out today is.

So this was what it felt like to lose yourself. Again. To let go of your future and let it rise up and up until finally you couldn't see it anymore, and you knew that you had to start over.

When everything is lost, and all seems darkness, then comes the new life and all that is needed.

We are always getting ready to live, and never having time enough to live.

How dull it is to pause, to make an end, to rust unburnished, not to shine in use! As though to breathe were life.

Many divorces are not really the result of irreparable injury but involve, instead, a desire on the part of the man or woman to shatter the setup, start out from scratch alone, and make life work for them all over again. They want the risk of disaster, want to touch bottom, see where bottom is, and, coming up, to breathe the air with relief and relish again.

You thought you had the choice to stay still or move forward, but your didn't. As long as your heart kept pumping an your blood kept blowing and your lungs kept filling, you didn't. The pang she felt for Tibby carried something like envy. You couldn't stand still for anything short of death, and God knew she had tried.

Take a deep breath, pick yourself up, dust yourself off, and start all over again.

What if I told you that 10 years from now, your life would be exactly the same? I doubt you would be happy. So, why are you so afraid of change?

And so rock bottom became the solid foundation on which I rebuilt my life.

Many a false step was made by standing still.

Life wastes itself whilst we are preparing to live.

If you stand still long enough, you'll get stuck.

If it required some effort to go from today to tomorrow, some people would always remain in yesterday.

There's so much spectating going on that a lot of us never get around to living.

The largest enemy of change isn't 'no', it's 'not yet' - that is the easiest way to forestall change.

The secret of getting ahead is getting started. The secret of getting started is breaking your complex overwhelming tasks into small manageable tasks, and starting on the first one.

It is always wiser, where there is a choice, to trust inertia. It is the greatest force in the world.

Nothing is so exhausting as indecision, and nothing is so futile.

Many a false step is made standing still.

The first day of the rest of my life.

Verily, I do not want to be like the ropemakers: They drag out their threads and always walk backwards.