#ld

The world is twice as crazy as it's ever been. ↗

— Maurice Sendak

#crazy #ever #twice #world

What I do as best I can is out of a deep respect for children, for how difficult their world is. ↗

— Maurice Sendak

#children #deep #difficult #how #i

We should every night call ourselves to an account: what infirmity have I mastered today? what passions opposed? what temptation resisted? what virtue acquired? Our vices will abate of themselves if they be brought every day to the shrift. ↗

— Lucius Annaeus Seneca

#account #acquired #brought #call #day

We should give as we would receive, cheerfully, quickly, and without hesitation; for there is no grace in a benefit that sticks to the fingers. ↗

— Lucius Annaeus Seneca

#cheerfully #fingers #give #grace #hesitation

I will govern my life and thoughts as if the whole world were to see the one and read the other, for what does it signify to make anything a secret to my neighbor, when to God, who is the searcher of our hearts, all our privacies are open? ↗

— Lucius Annaeus Seneca

#does #god #govern #hearts #i

I don't consider myself bald, I'm just taller than my hair. ↗

— Lucius Annaeus Seneca

#consider #hair #i #just #myself

The bravest sight in the world is to see a great man struggling against adversity. ↗

— Lucius Annaeus Seneca

#against #bravest #great #great man #man

Why do I not seek some real good; one which I could feel, not one which I could display? ↗

— Lucius Annaeus Seneca

#display #feel #good #i #real

Everything is the product of one universal creative effort. There is nothing dead in Nature. Everything is organic and living, and therefore the whole world appears to be a living organism. ↗

— Lucius Annaeus Seneca

#creative #dead #effort #everything #living

It is the superfluous things for which men sweat, - superfluous things that wear our togas theadbare, that force us to grow old in camp, that dash us upon foreign shores. ↗

— Lucius Annaeus Seneca

#dash #force #foreign #grow #men