Seneca the Younger Quotes

Just as a well-filled day brings blessed sleep, so a well-employed life brings a blessed death.

Death loses its terror if one dies when one has consummated one's life!

I don't believe in a personal god. It's good to give thanks, whether or not there's a god. There's no reason not to live life to the fullest. Morality is all the more important for people who don't expect to get a piece of celestial candy after they die.

I want to be remembered for doing something bigger than myself and making a positive impact on the world. I want to make my life worth something and to die a legend and to make my family proud.

Every man is tasked to make his life, even in its details, worthy of the contemplation of his most elevated and critical hour.

If I should die,” Dalinar said, “then I would do so having lived my life right. It is not the destination that matters, but how one arrives there.” “The Codes?” “No. The Way of Kings.” “That storming book.

The purpose of life is to live it, to taste experience to the utmost, to reach out eagerly and without fear for newer and richer experience.

The man who consecrates his hours by vigorous effort, and an honest aim, at once he draws the sting of life and Death; he walks with nature; and her paths are peace.

Get up, and set your shoulder to the wheel - How long is this life for? As you have come into this world, leave some mark behind. Otherwise, where is the difference between you and the trees and stones? They too come into existence, decay and die.

Life is indeed either a rich possession or a poor, according as it is made subservient to noble aims or ignoble pleasures.

What is a great life? It is the dreams of youth realised in old age.

You get one life. Live it in a way that it inspires someone.

You have your season, and you have but your season; neither can you lie down in peace, until you have some persuasion that your work as well as your life is at an end.

I fear waking up one morning and finding out my life was all for nothing. We're here for a reason. I believe a bit of the reason is to throw little torches out to lead people through the dark. When you're kind to someone in trouble, you hope they remember and are kind to someone else and so on. Soon it will be like a wildfire.

The dream of man's heart ... is that life may complete in significant pattern.

The measure of a man's life is the well spending of it, and not the length.

The point is, not how long you live, but how nobly you live.

Life is no brief candle to me. It is a sort of splendid torch which I have got a hold of for the moment, and I want to make it burn as brightly as possible before handing it on to future generations.

Make use of life while you have it. Whether you have lived enough depends upon yourself, not on the number of your years.

I [...] vowed that rather than let Alzheimer's take me, I would take it. I would live my life as ever to the full and die, ­before the disease mounted its last ­attack, in my own home, in a chair on the lawn, with a brandy in my hand to wash down whatever modern ­version of the "Brompton cocktail" some ­helpful medic could supply. And with ­Thomas Tallis on my iPod, I would shake hands with Death.

I've learned that making a 'living' is not the same thing as 'making a life'.

No one has lived a short life who has performed its duties with unblemished character.

The meaning of life is just to be alive. It is so plain and so obvious and so simple.

The safest principle through life, instead of reforming others, is to set about perfecting yourself.

Why hope to live a long life if we're only going to fill it with self-absorption, body maintenance and image repair? When we die, do we want people to exclaim 'She looked ten years younger,' or do we want them to say 'She lived a great life'?