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Beware the barrenness of a busy life.
- Socrates
He is richest who is content with the least,
for content is the wealth of nature.
- Socrates
Know thyself.
- Socrates (inscribed on the ancient Greek temple at Delphi)
Be as you wish to seem.
- Socrates
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An honest man is always a child.
- Socrates
Not life, but good life,
is to be chiefly valued.
- Socrates
I know nothing except the fact of my ignorance.
- Socrates
The unexamined life is not worth living.
- Socrates
The greatest way to live with honor in this world
is to be what we pretend to be.
- Socrates
The way to gain a good reputation is to endeavor
to be what you desire to appear.
- Socrates
He is richest who is content with the least.
- Socrates
It is not living that matters, but living rightly.
- Socrates
The envious person grows lean
with the fatness of their neighbor.
- Socrates
Wisdom begins in wonder.
- Socrates
As for me, all I know 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
Envy is the ulcer of the soul.
- Socrates
Once made equal to man, woman becomes his superior.
- 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
True knowledge exists in knowing that you know nothing.
- Socrates
Worthless people live only to eat and drink;
people of worth eat and drink only to live.
- 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
Beauty is a short-lived tyranny.
- 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
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
The only true wisdom is in knowing you know nothing.
- Socrates
If a man is proud of his wealth,
he should not be praised until it is known how he employs it.
- Socrates
Our prayers should be for blessings in general,
for God knows best what is good for us.
- Socrates
All men's souls are immortal,
but the souls of the righteous are immortal and divine.
- Socrates
Death may be the greatest of all human blessings.
- Socrates
As to marriage or celibacy, let a man
take which course he will,
he will be sure to repent.
- Socrates
He is a man of courage who does not run away,
but remains at his post and fights against the enemy.
- Socrates
From the deepest desires often come the deadliest hate.
- Socrates
False words are not only evil in themselves,
but they infect the soul with evil.
- 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
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
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
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
Beware the Rattlesnake of the Mind.
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When life is too easy for us, we must beware
or we may not be ready to meet the blows
which sooner or later come to everyone, rich or poor.
- Eleanor Roosevelt
Beware, lest you lose the substance by grasping at the shadow.
- Aesop
Beware of false knowledge;
it is more dangerous than ignorance.
- George Bernard Shaw
Beware the Rattlesnake of the Mind -
A Mind is Only Useful When Tamed..
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O! beware, my lord, of jealousy;
It is the green-eyed monster which
doth mock the meat it feeds on.
- William Shakespeare
Beware the Rattlesnake of the Mind
... Don't Let It Poison Your Day.
Beware the Rattlesnake of the Mind
... the Antidote is Perspective.
Beware the Rattlesnake of the Mind
... Your Mind is Only Useful When Tamed.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
I say beware of all enterprises that require new clothes,
and not rather a new wearer of clothes.
- Henry David Thoreau
NECESSITY and URGENCY are twin poisons of our rattlesnake minds.
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TIME is yet another poisonous construct
of our rattlesnake minds.
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TIME is poisonous construct of our rattlesnake minds.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
You are not your mind. You, a Spiritual BEing,
are neither your mind nor your body.
Mind and body are your tools - to use as you choose.
Sometimes your body appears to have a will of its own,
as when it twitches or pains.
Likewise, your mind often appears to have its own will.
That incessant chattering of regret, disappointment, guilt,
shame, foreboding, worry, and fear
is your Rattlesnake Mind striking off on its own.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Necessity is the mother of invention.
- Proverb
Necessity never made a good bargain.
- Benjamin Franklin
Our real problem, then, is not our strength today;
it is rather the vital necessity of action today
to ensure our strength tomorrow.
- Dwight D. Eisenhower
There is One Infinite Mind,
which of necessity includes all that is,
whether it be the intelligence in man,
the life in the animal,
or the invisible Presence which is God.
- Ernest Holmes
Money is not required to buy one necessity of the soul.
- Henry David Thoreau
The creation of something new
is not accomplished by the intellect
but by the play instinct acting from inner necessity.
The creative mind plays with the objects it loves.
- Carl Jung
If we have no peace,
it is because we have forgotten
that we belong to each other.
- Mother Teresa
Mother is the name for God
in the lips and hearts of little children.
- William Makepeace Thackeray
If you can't feed a hundred people, then feed just one.
- Mother Teresa
Spread love everywhere you go.
Let no one ever come to you without leaving happier.
- Mother Teresa
"Mother Teresa Prayer"
People are often unreasonable, illogical, and self-centered;
... Forgive them anyway.
If you are kind, people may accuse you
of selfish, ulterior motives;
... Be kind anyway.
If you are successful, you will win some
false friends and some true enemies;
... Succeed anyway.
If you are honest and frank, people may cheat you;
... Be honest and frank anyway.
What you spend years building, someone could destroy overnight;
... Build anyway.
If you find serenity and happiness, they may be jealous;
... Be happy anyway.
The good you do today, people will often forget tomorrow;
... Do good anyway.
Give the world the best you have, and it may never be enough;
... Give the world the best you've got anyway.
You see, in the final analysis, it is between you and God;
It was never between you and them anyway.
We can do no great things - only small things with great love.
- although commonly attributed to Mother Teresa,
who kept a copy of this prayer on
the wall of her Calcutta orphanage,
this prayer was actually written by Kent Keith.
Good works are links that form a chain of love.
- Mother Teresa
Mother's love grows by giving.
- Charles Lamb
Peace begins with a smile.
- Mother Teresa
It is a kingly act to assist the fallen.
- Mother Teresa
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