Hannah > Hannah's Quotes

“If you don't get what you want, you suffer; if you get what you don't want, you suffer; even when you get exactly what you want, you still suffer because you can't hold on to it forever. Your mind is your predicament. It wants to be free of change. Free of pain, free of the obligations of life and death. But change is law and no amount of pretending will alter that reality.”
― Socrates

“He who is not contented with what he has, would not be contented with what he would like to have.”
― Socrates

“By all means marry; if you get a good wife, you’ll become happy; if you get a bad one, you’ll become a philosopher.”
― Socrates

“Sometimes you put walls up not to keep people out, but to see who cares enough to break them down.”
― Socrates

“Let him who would move the world first move himself.”
― Socrates

“Every action has its pleasures and its price.”
― Socrates

“What is a friend? A single soul dwelling in two bodies.”
― Aristotle

“Educating the mind without educating the heart is no education at all.”
― Aristotle

“To find yourself, think for yourself.”
― Socrates

“We can easily forgive a child who is afraid of the dark; the real tragedy of life is when men are afraid of the light.”
― Socrates

“Thou shouldst eat to live; not live to eat.”
― Socrates

“One should never do wrong in return, nor mistreat any man, no matter how one has been mistreated by him.”
― Socrates

“Regard your good name as the richest jewel you can possibly be possessed of -- for credit is like fire; when once you have kindled it you may easily preserve it, but if you once extinguish it, you will find it an arduous task to rekindle it again. The way to a good reputation is to endeavor to be what you desire to appear.”
― Socrates

“Those who are hardest to love need it the most.”
― Socrates

“Is it true; is it kind, or is it necessary?”
― Socrates, Essential Thinkers - Socrates

“It is better to change an opinion than to persist in a wrong one.”
― Socrates

“God takes away the minds of poets, and uses them as his ministers, as he also uses diviners and holy prophets, in order that we who hear them may know them to be speaking not of themselves who utter these priceless words in a state of unconsciousness, but that God himself is the speaker, and that through them he is conversing with us. ”
― Socrates