Seneca the Younger Quotes

Real happiness is cheap enough, yet how dearly we pay for its counterfeit.

Deeper fulfilment is rather different from the happiness of seeing a good film or watching your team win at football, and it doesn't come at the push of a button.

I can say with full sincerity that I am happy. I'm happy because I'm doing what I love and I'm not selling out.

We should try to understand our innermost needs. We shouldn't use irony to reduce their power.

I have a motto: Work to become, not to acquire.

Life is too short to be living somebody else's dream.

It's not an epitaph. I felt I could look back at my life and get a good story out of it. It's a picture of somebody trying to figure things out. I'm not trying to create some impression about myself. That doesn't interest me.

A successful life is one that is lived through understanding and pursuing one's own path, not chasing after the dreams of others.

I think there's a lot to be said about just enjoying your work. It can be very contrived when people say their work is for the good of mankind.

It's good for people to look at me and think, 'This guy is doing his thing and enjoying what he's doing and successful at it and living his life.' And that's what I'm doing, and I'm very happy.

The thing is, I don't do these things for recognition, being a good teammate, being a positive member of the community. I do them because those things make me whole and complete.

I once wanted to prove myself by being a great actress. Now I want to prove that I'm a person. Then maybe I'll be a great actress.

Intrinsically, I'm the same person I was as a young lad, and I think I still have the optimism of life, still the same wants and desires to be good and great about what I do.

I'm cool with where I'm at. It's certain things I wanna do to be better, but I'm good.

Each of us must become impassioned, finding meaning and self-fulfillment in our own life's journey.

A good thing to live by is to go after what truly interests you.

The good life consists in deriving happiness by using your signature strengths every day in the main realms of living. The meaningful life adds one more component: using these same strengths to forward knowledge, power or goodness.

To live for results would be to sentence myself to continuous frustration. My only sure reward is in my actions and not from them.

Find out who you are. And do it on purpose.

Don't ask yourself what the world needs. Ask yourself, 'What makes me come alive?' Because what the world - a wife, a child - needs is men who have come alive.

True happiness involves the full use of one's power and talents.

If you do the things you enjoy and are good at, I really have a feeling that that will lead to having a fulfilling life, and people with fulfilling lives are able to be 'good people.'

There's so many other things I want to do. I don't want to do them to be different or just for a challenge, but because my heart and soul tell me to.

Once you get rid of the idea that you must please other people before you please yourself, and you begin to follow your own instincts - only then can you be successful. You become more satisfied, and when you are, other people will tend to be satisfied by what you do.

Success in any endeavor depends on the degree to which it is an expression of your true self.