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The way to gain a good reputation is to endeavor
to be what you desire to appear.
- Socrates
Our prayers should be for blessings in general,
for God knows best what is good for us.
- Socrates
Beware the barrenness of a busy life.
- Socrates
Know thyself.
- Socrates (inscribed on the ancient Greek temple at Delphi)
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- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
He is richest who is content with the least,
for content is the wealth of nature.
- Socrates
An honest man is always a child.
- Socrates
As to marriage or celibacy, let a man
take which course he will,
he will be sure to repent.
- Socrates
The unexamined life is not worth living.
- Socrates
True wisdom comes to each of us when we realize
how little we understand about life,
ourselves, and the world around us.
- Socrates
He is richest who is content with the least.
- Socrates
I cannot teach anybody anything.
I can only make them think.
- 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 know that I am intelligent,
because I know that I know nothing.
- Socrates
The greatest way to live with honor in this world
is to be what we pretend to be.
- Socrates
Let him that would move the world first move himself.
- Socrates
I am the wisest man alive, for I know one thing,
and that is that I know nothing.
- Socrates
Wisdom begins in wonder.
- 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
It is not living that matters, but living rightly.
- Socrates
True knowledge exists in knowing that you know nothing.
- Socrates
Not life, but good life,
is to be chiefly valued.
- 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
As for me, all I know is that I know nothing.
- Socrates
The envious person grows lean
with the fatness of their neighbor.
- 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
I know nothing except the fact of my ignorance.
- 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
He is a man of courage who does not run away,
but remains at his post and fights against the enemy.
- Socrates
Be slow to fall into friendship;
but when thou art in, continue firm and constant.
- 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
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
From the deepest desires often come the deadliest hate.
- Socrates
Beauty is the bait which with delight
allures man to enlarge his kind.
- Socrates
You're only here for a short visit.
Don't hurry. Don't worry.
And be sure to smell the flowers along the way.
- Walter Hagen
As we work to create light for others,
we naturally light our own way.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
May flowers always line your path and sunshine light your day.
May songbirds serenade you every step along the way.
May a rainbow run beside you in a sky that's always blue.
And may happiness fill your heart each day your whole life through.
- Irish Blessing
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
Simple living is the way to happy living.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Anger? perhaps there is a better way.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
The way I see it, if you want the rainbow,
you gotta put up with the rain.
- Dolly Parton
Where there's a will, there's a way.
- old English proverb
Never let the fear of striking out get in your way.
- Babe Ruth
The way to see by faith is to shut the eye of reason.
- Benjamin Franklin [attributed]
The best way to cheer yourself
is to try to cheer someone else up.
- Mark Twain
Know the power and the peace of saying,
"I love you just the way you are."
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Prayer is simply a two-way conversation between you and God.
- Billy Graham
Guide our feet into the way of peace.
- Luke 1:79
You are perfect exactly the way you are.
- Werner Erhard
Dear Father in heaven, I'm not a praying man,
but if you're up there and you can hear me ...
show me the way... show me the way.
- It's a Wonderful Life (1946 movie)
Play to win, but be a good loser.
Have a plan for your life,
but accept whatever comes your way
with grace and gratitude.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
As we light a path for others,
we naturally light our own way.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
The magic words for a great relationship are,
"I love you just the way you are."
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Open your mind, open your heart,
and the way to joy becomes clear.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
If there is a will, there is a way.
- Anonymous
There are only two mistakes one can make along the road to truth;
not going all the way, and not starting.
- The Buddha
No one can find inner peace except by working,
not in a self-centered way, but for the whole human family.
- Peace Pilgrim
Healing does not mean going back to the way things were before,
but rather allowing what is now to move us closer to God.
- Ram Dass
Sweetest Lord, make me appreciative
of the dignity of my high vocation,
and its many responsibilities.
Never permit me to disgrace it by giving way
to coldness, unkindness, or impatience.
- Mother Teresa
Grace isn't just a little prayer
you say before receiving a meal.
It's a way to live.
- Jackie Windspear
Be content with what you have,
rejoice in the way things are.
When you realize there is nothing lacking,
the whole world belongs to you.
- Lao Tzu
We who lived in concentration camps can remember the men
who walked through the huts comforting others,
giving away their last piece of bread...
They offer sufficient proof that everything
can be taken from a man but one thing:
to choose one's attitude in any given set of circumstances,
to choose one's own way.
- Viktor E. Frankl
Love is granting another the space to be
the way they are and the way they are not.
- Werner Erhard
The best way to destroy an enemy
is to make him a friend.
- Abraham Lincoln
Without stirring abroad,
One can know the whole world;
Without looking out of the window,
One can see the way of heaven.
The further one goes, The less one knows.
- Lao Tzu
It all comes to this:
the simplest way to be happy is to do good.
- Helen Keller
Find your way with the certain and gentle light of forgiveness.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
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- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
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