Life Quotes Quote by Socrates — Inspiring Words on Life, Love & Wisdom

“Be as you wish to seem.”

“Wisdom begins in wonder.”

“The greatest way to live with honour in this world is to be what we pretend to be.”

“Be of good cheer about death, and know this of a truth, that no evil can happen to a good man, either in life or after death.”

“The hour of departure has arrived, and we go our separate ways, I to die, and you to live. Which of these two is better only God knows.”

“Wonder is the beginning of wisdom.”

“The ego relies on the familiar. It is reluctant to experience the unknown, which is they very essence of life.”

“If you cannot find peace within yourself, you will never find it anywhere else.”

“For a moment everything was clear, and when that happens you see that the world is barely there at all. Don't we all secretly know this? It's a perfectly balanced mechanism of shouts and echoes pretending to be wheels and cogs, a dreamclock chiming beneath a mystery-glass we call life. Behind it? Below it and around it? Chaos, storms. Men with hammers, men with knives, men with guns. Women who twist what they cannot dominate and belittle what they cannot understand. A universe of horror and loss surrounding a single lighted stage where mortals dance in defiance of the dark.”

“Quiet is peace. Tranquility. Quiet is turning down the volume knob on life. Silence is pushing the off button. Shutting it down. All of it. - Amir”

““Earth's crammed with heaven...”