Seneca the Younger Quotes

A busy life is a wasted life.

Between the businesse of life and the day of death, a space ought to be interposed.

This is your life and the clock is ticking.

The busy man is never wise and the wise man is never busy.

My daughter recently reminded me not to get so busy making a living, I forget to make a life and I'm going to take that advice.

Beware the barrenness of a busy life.

If this was the last day of your life, would you spend it the way you're spending today?

A man can be so busy making a living that he forgets to make a life.

Every day, therefore, should be regulated as if it were the one that brings up the rear, the one that rounds out and completes our lives.

I suddenly realized I was racing around so much, I could never catch up with my life

I told her tea bags were just a convenience for people with busy lives and she said no one is so busy they can't take time to make a decent cup of tea and if you are that busy you don't deserve a decent cup of tea for what is it all about anyway? Are we put into this world to be busy or to chat over a nice cup of tea?

I'm learning that you have to make time for what's important. You have to fight to carve little pieces of happiness out of your life, or the everyday emergencies will eat up everything.

Don't get so busy making a living that you forget to make a life.

Too many people, too many demands, too much to do; competent, busy, hurrying people - It just isn't living at all.

When you focus on life, on enjoying and connecting with other people, that's when work comes. When you focus on work, you can never work. I'm always going through waves of that.

I do so much work that I don't have a lot of time for my life!

Work as if you were to live a hundred years. Pray as if you were to die tomorrow.

As with most things in my life, I believe you should try to enjoy yourself and never feel like you are a slave to a routine.

I am not one of those people who lives for work. I enjoy sculpting and photography and tennis and swimming. I simply do not have enough time. My life is not in control.

Balancing school, acting, and a social life can be difficult.

The true currency of life is time, not money, and we've all got a limited stock of that.

Everything has been figured out, except how to live.

What's really important in life? Sitting on a beach? Looking at television eight hours a day? I think we have to appreciate that we're alive for only a limited period of time, and we'll spend most of our lives working.

I try to work and enjoy life, and that's about all.

In any job, you have to give up certain things, and I believe that having a good quality of life means enjoying certain things only in moderation.