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

“The unexamined life is not worth living.”

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

“I only know that I know nothing”

“Are you not ashamed of caring so much for the making of money and for fame and prestige, when you neither think nor care about wisdom and truth and the improvement of your soul?”

“An unexamined life is not worth living.”

“Be as you wish to seem.”

“The trouble with most people is that they think with their hopes or fears or wishes rather than with their minds.”

“Too many people spend money they haven't earned, to buy things they don't want, to impress people that they don't like.”

“At times I feel as if I had lived all this before and that I have already written these very words, but I know it was not I: it was another woman, who kept her notebooks so that one day I could use them. I write, she wrote, that memory is fragile and the space of a single life is brief, passing so quickly that we never get a chance to see the relationship between events; we cannot gauge the consequences of our acts, and we believe in the fiction of past, present, and future, but it may also be true that everything happens simultaneously. ... That's why my Grandmother Clara wrote in her notebooks, in order to see things in their true dimension and to defy her own poor memory.”

“There is nothing more rare, nor more beautiful, than a woman being unapologetically herself; comfortable in her perfect imperfection. To me, that is the true essence of beauty.”

“There is no such thing as work-life balance. Everything worth fighting for unbalances your life.”