Anger, if not restrained, is frequently more hurtful to us than the injury that provokes it.
Seneca The YoungerRead
What was hard to suffer is sweet to remember.
Interpretation
Difficult experiences can lead to fond memories.
This quote by Seneca suggests that the challenges we endure can lead to valuable lessons and positive memories. While suffering may be painful in the moment, reflecting on those hardships can produce a sense of sweetness and appreciation when we look back upon them, as they contribute to our growth and resilience.
In practice
In a motivational speech, illustrating how past hardships have shaped personal strength.
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.
...The hagaddah came to Sarajevo for a reason. It was here to test us, to see if there were people who could see that what united us was more than what divided us. That to be a human being matters more than to be a Jew or a Muslim, Catholic or Orthodox. p. 361
There's a phenomenology of being sick, one that depends on temperament, personal history, and the culture which we live in.
A 'mistake' is beside the point, for once anything happens it authentically is.
Peace is liberty in tranquillity.
All interpretation or observation of reality is necessarily fiction. In this case, the problem is that man is a moral animal abandoned in an amoral universe and condemned to a finite existence with no other purpose than to perpetuate the natural cycle of the species. It is impossible to survive in a prolonged state of reality, at least for a human being. We spend a good part of our lives dreaming, especially when we're awake.
What if I told you insane was working fifty hours a week in some office for fifty years at the end of which they tell you to p*ss off; ending up in some retirement village hoping to die before suffering the indignity of trying to make it to the toilet on time? Wouldn't you consider that to be insane?
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