#ma

You can't write masterpieces in your 80s and be happy too. ↗

— Maurice Sendak

#happy #masterpieces #too #write #you

You know who my gods are, who I believe in fervently? Herman Melville, Emily Dickinson - she's probably the top - Mozart, Shakespeare, Keats. These are wonderful gods who have gotten me through the narrow straits of life. ↗

— Maurice Sendak

#emily #fervently #gods #gotten #herman

A gem cannot be polished without friction, nor a man perfected without trials. ↗

— Lucius Annaeus Seneca

#friction #gem #man #nor #perfected

It is another's fault if he be ungrateful, but it is mine if I do not give. To find one thankful man, I will oblige a great many that are not so. ↗

— Lucius Annaeus Seneca

#another #fault #find #give #great

Life's like a play: it's not the length, but the excellence of the acting that matters. ↗

— Lucius Annaeus Seneca

#excellence #length #life #like #matters

No man was ever wise by chance. ↗

— Lucius Annaeus Seneca

#chance #ever #man #wise

As is a tale, so is life: not how long it is, but how good it is, is what matters. ↗

— Lucius Annaeus Seneca

#how #life #long #matters #tale

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

It is quality rather than quantity that matters. ↗

— Lucius Annaeus Seneca

#quality #quantity #rather #than

Life is the fire that burns and the sun that gives light. Life is the wind and the rain and the thunder in the sky. Life is matter and is earth, what is and what is not, and what beyond is in Eternity. ↗

— Lucius Annaeus Seneca

#burns #earth #eternity #fire #gives