We are more often frightened ...

We are more often frightened than hurt; and we suffer more from imagination than from reality.
We are more often frightened than hurt; and we suffer more from imagination than from reality.
 Seneca the Elder

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Being self-made is a state of mind, and once you put that mentality to work, your success will come.
 Dave East
A lot of people change for good. Some people just fall off. Just trying to progress in anything, no matter what you're doing, I feel like any progression you make... some people aren't gonna be around you that were around you.
 Dave East
What a distressing contrast there is between the radiant intelligence of the child and the feeble mentality of the average adult.
Don't settle in the land of barely enough. That is where you are, it is not who you are. That's your location, it's not your identity. No matter what it looks like, have an abundant mentality.
Everything in your life, every experience, every relationship is a mirror of the mental pattern that is going on inside of you.

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No one is better born than another, unless they are born with better abilities and a more amiable disposition.
 Seneca the Elder
It is for the superfluous things of life that men sweat.
 Seneca the Elder
What you think about yourself is much more important than what others think of you.
 Seneca the Elder
The great soul surrenders itself to fate.
 Seneca the Elder
If a man does not know what port he is steering for, no wind is favorable to him.
 Seneca the Elder