Anger, if not restrained, is frequently more hurtful to us than the injury that provokes it.
Seneca The YoungerRead
Great grief does not of itself put an end to itself.
Interpretation
Grief alone cannot resolve itself; it requires active engagement to overcome.
Seneca the Younger's quote highlights the notion that experiencing profound sadness does not automatically lead to healing. Instead, it suggests that individuals must engage with their grief and take steps toward processing and overcoming their emotional pain, rather than passively waiting for it to dissipate.
In practice
In a discussion about coping with loss, one might say, 'As Seneca the Younger reminded us, great grief does not of itself put an end to itself.'
Anger, if not restrained, is frequently more hurtful to us than the injury that provokes it.
No tree becomes rooted and sturdy unless many a wind assails it. For by its very tossing it tightens its grip and plants its roots more securely; the fragile trees are those that have grown in a sunny valley.
Slavery takes hold of few, but many take hold of slavery.
To be able to endure odium is the first art to be learned by those who aspire to power.
Wherever there is a human being, there is an opportunity for a kindness.
Loyalty is the holiest good in the human heart.
It's only now that I see the bigger picture: Our ways to attain spirituality may be different - through diverse religious, customs and traditions - but they're modeled on similar principles and ideologies. That's what ties us all together.
Nirvana is something within you. It is not an external reality. No god thunders down from the mountaintop. Just as the great mystics in the Christian, Jewish and Muslim faiths all discovered, God is within the self. God is virtually inseparable from ourselves.
I've never really lived a conventional life, so I think it's quite foolish for me or anyone else to start thinking that I am going to start making conventional choices.
How do you put everyone in the pool, so you have the right to dry yourself in the sun?
Character is "a stamp of good repute on a person."
Academics lack perspective. In a debate on whether the world is round, they would argue, 'No,' because it's an oblate spheroid. They suffer from 'the curse of knowledge': the inability to imagine what it's like not to know something that they know.
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