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Wisdom begins in wonder.
- Socrates
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Beware the barrenness of a busy life.
- Socrates 
Know thyself.
- Socrates (inscribed on the ancient Greek temple at Delphi)
An honest man is always a child.
- Socrates
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He is richest who is content with the least,
for content is the wealth of nature.
- Socrates
Be as you wish to seem.
- Socrates
The unexamined life is not worth living.
- Socrates
He is richest who is content with the least.
- Socrates
The greatest way to live with honor in this world
is to be what we pretend to be.
- Socrates
The envious person grows lean
with the fatness of their neighbor.
- Socrates
I know nothing except the fact of my ignorance.
- Socrates
It is not living that matters, but living rightly.
- Socrates
As for me, all I know is that I know nothing.
- Socrates
Not life, but good life,
is to be chiefly valued.
- Socrates
The way to gain a good reputation is to endeavor
to be what you desire to appear.
- Socrates
Envy is the ulcer of the soul.
- Socrates
Beauty is a short-lived tyranny.
- Socrates
I am the wisest man alive, for I know one thing,
and that is that I know nothing.
- Socrates
The shortest and surest way to
live with honor in the world,
is to be in reality
what we would appear to be.
- Socrates
Be slow to fall into friendship;
but when thou art in, continue firm and constant.
- Socrates
I cannot teach anybody anything.
I can only make them think.
- Socrates
Let him that would move the world first move himself.
- Socrates
I know that I am intelligent,
because I know that I know nothing.
- Socrates
A system of morality which is based
on relative emotional values
is a mere illusion, a thoroughly vulgar conception
which has nothing sound in it and nothing true.
- Socrates
The only true wisdom is in knowing you know nothing.
- Socrates
One who is injured ought not to return the injury,
for on no account can it be right to do an injustice;
and it is not right to return an injury,
or to do evil to any man,
however much we have suffered from him.
- Socrates
Worthless people live only to eat and drink;
people of worth eat and drink only to live.
- Socrates
True knowledge exists in knowing that you know nothing.
- Socrates
Once made equal to man, woman becomes his superior.
- Socrates
False words are not only evil in themselves,
but they infect the soul with evil.
- Socrates
True wisdom comes to each of us when we realize
how little we understand about life,
ourselves, and the world around us.
- Socrates
From the deepest desires often come the deadliest hate.
- Socrates
Death may be the greatest of all human blessings.
- Socrates
Ordinary people seem not to realize
that those who really apply themselves
in the right way to philosophy
are directly and of their own accord
preparing themselves for dying and death.
- Socrates
The end of life is to be like God,
and the soul following God will be like Him.
- Socrates
If a man is proud of his wealth,
he should not be praised until it is known how he employs it.
- Socrates
All men's souls are immortal,
but the souls of the righteous are immortal and divine.
- Socrates
As to marriage or celibacy, let a man
take which course he will,
he will be sure to repent.
- Socrates
Our prayers should be for blessings in general,
for God knows best what is good for us.
- Socrates
He is a man of courage who does not run away,
but remains at his post and fights against the enemy.
- Socrates
Employ your time in improving yourself by other men's writings,
so that you shall gain easily what others have labored hard for.
- Socrates
I decided that it was not wisdom that
enabled poets to write their poetry,
but a kind of instinct or inspiration,
such as you find in seers and prophets
who deliver all their sublime messages
without knowing in the least what they mean.
- Socrates
If all misfortunes were laid in one common heap
whence everyone must take an equal portion,
most people would be contented to take their own and depart.
- Socrates
By all means marry.
If you get a good wife, you'll be happy.
If you get a bad one, you'll become a philosopher
and that is a good thing for any man.
- Socrates
He who is contented is rich.
- Lao Tzu
What's done is done.
- William Shakespeare
Universal compassion is the only guarantee of morality.
- Arthur Schopenhauer
The butterfly counts not months but moments, and has time enough.
- Rabindranath Tagore
When It's Darkest, Men See the Stars.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
This above all, to thine own self be true.
- William Shakespeare
Nature does not hurry, yet everything is accomplished.
- Lao Tzu
Everything has beauty,
but not everyone sees it.
- Confucius
A good traveler has no fixed plans,
and is not intent on arriving.
- Lao Tzu
Always be a first-rate version of yourself,
instead of a second-rate version of somebody else.
- Judy Garland
Life's burdens are lighter when I laugh at myself.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
The purpose of our lives is to be happy.
- Tenzin Gyatso, the 14th Dalai Lama
Happiness walks on busy feet.
- Kitte Turmell
Silence is a source of great strength.
- Lao Tzu
Life is a reflection of intent.
Love reflects love.
Hate reflects hate.
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See no evil, Hear no evil, Speak no evil.
- Japanese pictorial maxim (the Three Wise Monkeys)
I am a Passionate Observer of Life.
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The words of truth are always paradoxical.
- Lao Tzu
Clouds come floating into my life,
no longer to carry rain or usher storm,
but to add color to my sunset sky.
- Rabindranath Tagore
Change what you see,
by changing how you see.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Choose Inner Peace.
Nothing is worth losing your inner peace.
Take action as circumstances require,
but never surrender your inner peace.
Stop. Breathe deeply.
Close your eyes and breathe deeply again.
Then, and only then, take action -
from a peaceful heart.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
You don't have the power to make life "fair,"
but you do have the power to make life joyful.
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To the mind that is still,
the whole universe surrenders.
- Lao Tzu
I am a Passionate Observer of Life.
I See the events, feel the emotions,
and recognize the difference.
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Drop the sword - for there is but one flesh to wound,
and it is the one flesh of all humankind.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Footprints in the sands of time...
Where have you been?
Where are you going?
Why are you going there?
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
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