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Let him that would move the world first move himself.
- Socrates
Related topics: Wisdom
Our prayers should be for blessings in general,
for God knows best what is good for us.
- Socrates
He is richest who is content with the least,
for content is the wealth of nature.
- Socrates 
Beware the barrenness of a busy life.
- Socrates
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- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Know thyself.
- Socrates (inscribed on the ancient Greek temple at Delphi)
As to marriage or celibacy, let a man
take which course he will,
he will be sure to repent.
- Socrates
An honest man is always a child.
- Socrates
True knowledge exists in knowing that you know nothing.
- Socrates
The envious person grows lean
with the fatness of their neighbor.
- Socrates
Worthless people live only to eat and drink;
people of worth eat and drink only to live.
- Socrates
Be as you wish to seem.
- Socrates
I am the wisest man alive, for I know one thing,
and that is 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
He is richest who is content with the least.
- 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
True wisdom comes to each of us when we realize
how little we understand about life,
ourselves, and the world around us.
- Socrates
As for me, all I know is that I know nothing.
- Socrates
The way to gain a good reputation is to endeavor
to be what you desire to appear.
- Socrates
I know nothing except the fact of my ignorance.
- Socrates
Not life, but good life,
is to be chiefly valued.
- Socrates
The unexamined life is not worth living.
- Socrates
I cannot teach anybody anything.
I can only make them think.
- Socrates
It is not living that matters, but living rightly.
- Socrates
Wisdom begins in wonder.
- Socrates
The only true wisdom is in knowing you know nothing.
- Socrates
I know that I am intelligent,
because I know 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
The greatest way to live with honor in this world
is to be what we pretend to be.
- Socrates
He is a man of courage who does not run away,
but remains at his post and fights against the enemy.
- Socrates
Once made equal to man, woman becomes his superior.
- 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
If a man is proud of his wealth,
he should not be praised until it is known how he employs it.
- Socrates
Be slow to fall into friendship;
but when thou art in, continue firm and constant.
- Socrates
Beauty is the bait which with delight
allures man to enlarge his kind.
- Socrates
I was really too honest a man to be a politician and live.
- Socrates
The end of life is to be like God,
and the soul following God will be like Him.
- Socrates
From the deepest desires often come the deadliest hate.
- 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
Let there be peace on earth.
And let it begin with me.
- Jill Jackson Miller
Let me bring peace into moments of chaos.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Laugh when you can,
apologize when you should,
and let go of what you can't change.
Life's too short to be anything... but happy.
- Anonymous
Love one another but make not a bond of love.
Let it rather be a moving sea
between the shores of your souls.
- Khalil Gibran
Do not let Sunday be taken from you.
If your soul has no Sunday, it becomes an orphan.
- Albert Schweitzer
Don't let one cloud obliterate the whole sky.
- Anais Nin
Miracles are the natural way of the Universe -
our only job is to move our doubting minds aside
and let the miracles flow.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
By letting it go it all gets done.
The world is won by those who let it go.
But when you try and try.
The world is beyond the winning.
- Lao Tzu
We must let go of the life we have planned,
so as to accept the one that is waiting for us.
- Joseph Campbell
Never let the fear of striking out get in your way.
- Babe Ruth
Let us more and more insist on raising funds of love,
of kindness, of understanding, of peace.
Money will come if we seek first the Kingdom of God -
the rest will be given.
- Mother Teresa
Let us not be satisfied with just giving money.
Money is not enough, money can be got,
but they need your hearts to love them.
So, spread your love everywhere you go.
- Mother Teresa
Pay attention to rainbows, and snowflakes,
butterflies and the songs of birds,
the crash of storm-driven waves
and the mirror-surface of a quiet pond.
Let the depths of nature become a part of your innermost being.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Do not let what you cannot do
interfere with what you can do.
- John Wooden
Breath by breath, let go of fear, expectation, anger,
regret, cravings, frustration, fatigue.
Let go of the need for approval.
- Lama Surya Das
Let Go, Let God.
- Anonymous
Let every day be the first day
of the rest of your life,
but especially let today be a new beginning.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Don't be trapped by dogma -
which is living with the results of other people's thinking.
Don't let the noise of other's opinions
drown out your own inner voice.
- Steve Jobs
We have to let go of all blame, all attacking, all judging,
to free our inner selves to attract what we say we want.
- Joe Vitale
As we let our light shine,
we unconsciously give other people
permission to do the same.
As we are liberated from our own fear,
our presence actually liberates others.
- Marianne Williamson
Let Today be a Thanksgiving.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
When I let go of what I am,
I become what I might be.
- Lao Tzu
Find your balance and stand with it.
Find your song and sing it out.
Find your cadence and let it appear like a dance.
Find the questions that only you know how to ask and
The answers that you are content to not know.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
We are cups, constantly and quietly being filled.
The trick is, knowing how to tip ourselves over
and let the beautiful stuff out.
- Ray Bradbury
Let us swim together in the ocean of our being.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Let us be silent, that we may
hear the whispers of the gods.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
I believe that everything happens for a reason.
People change so that you can learn to let go,
things go wrong so that you appreciate them when they're right,
you believe lies so you eventually learn to trust no one but yourself,
and sometimes good things fall apart so better things can fall together.
- Marilyn Monroe
Let us touch the dying, the poor,
the lonely and the unwanted
according to the graces we have received
and let us not be ashamed
or slow to do the humble work.
- Mother Teresa
Courage is the power to let go of the familiar.
- Raymond Lindquist
Let us not pray to be sheltered from dangers
but to be fearless when facing them.
- Rabindranath Tagore
Let parents bequeath to their children
not riches, but the spirit of reverence.
- Plato
Don't let a little dispute injure a great relationship.
- Tenzin Gyatso, the 14th Dalai Lama
Stay Happy, never let anyone get your goat.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
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