#upon

True happiness is... to enjoy the present, without anxious dependence upon the future. ↗

— Lucius Annaeus Seneca

#anxious #dependence #enjoy #future #present

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

A young man is stirred and stimulated by the consciousness of how much depends upon his own exertions: a young girl is oppressed by it. ↗

— Elizabeth Missing Sewell

#depends #exertions #girl #his #how

I seemed to vow to myself that some day I would go to the region of ice and snow and go on and on till I came to one of the poles of the earth, the end of the axis upon which this great round ball turns. ↗

— Ernest Shackleton

#ball #came #day #earth #end

Some are born great, some achieve greatness, and some have greatness thrust upon them. ↗

— William Shakespeare

#achieve #born #greatness #some #them

Life's but a walking shadow, a poor player, that struts and frets his hour upon the stage, and then is heard no more; it is a tale told by an idiot, full of sound and fury, signifying nothing. ↗

— William Shakespeare

#full #fury #heard #his #hour

I never see thy face but I think upon hell-fire. ↗

— William Shakespeare

#i #i think #never #see #think

All my life affection has been showered upon me, and every forward step I have made has been taken in spite of it. ↗

— George Bernard Shaw

#been #every #forward #i #life

An absolutely necessary part of a writer's equipment, almost as necessary as talent, is the ability to stand up under punishment, both the punishment the world hands out and the punishment he inflicts upon himself. ↗

— Irwin Shaw

#absolutely #almost #both #equipment #hands

Nothing wilts faster than laurels that have been rested upon. ↗

— Percy Bysshe Shelley

#faster #laurels #nothing #rested #than