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“Know thyself.”
― Socrates

“When the debate is lost, slander becomes the tool of the loser.”
― Anonymous

“The secret of happiness, you see, is not found in seeking more, but in developing the capacity to enjoy less.”
― Socrates

“No man has the right to be an amateur in the matter of physical training. It is a shame for a man to grow old without seeing the beauty and strength of which his body is capable.”
― Socrates

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

“Death may be the greatest of all human blessings.”
― Socrates

“Contentment is natural wealth, luxury is artificial poverty.”
― Socrates, Essential Thinkers - Socrates

“The only good is knowledge and the only evil is ignorance.”
― Socrates

“Employ your time in improving yourself by other men's writings so that you shall come easily by what others have labored hard for.”
― Socrates

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

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

“Innovation is saying "no" to 1,000 things.”
― Steve Jobs

“Remembering that you are going to die is the best way I know to avoid the trap of thinking you have something to lose. You are already naked. There is no reason not to follow your heart.”
― Steve Jobs

“I would trade all of my technology for an afternoon with Socrates.”
― Steve Jobs

“Oh wow. Oh wow. Oh wow.”
― Steve Jobs

“The idea of death, the fear of it, haunts the human animal like nothing else.”
― Ernest Becker

“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

“One day, the old wise Socrates walks down the streets, when all of the sudden a man runs up to him "Socrates I have to tell you something about your friend who..."
"Hold up" Socrates interrupts him "About the story you're about to tell me, did you put it trough the three sieves?"
"Three sieves?" The man asks "What three sieves?"
"Let's try it" Socrates says.
"The first sieve is the one of truth, did you examine what you were about to tell me if it is true?" Socrates asks.
"Well no, I just overheard it" The man says.
"Ah, well then you have used the second sieve, the sieve of good?" Socrates asks "Is it something good what you're about to tell me?"
"Ehm no, on the contrary" the man answers.
"Hmmm" The wise man says "Let's use the third sieve then, is it necessary to tell me what you're so exited about?"
"No not necessary" the man says.
"Well" Socrates says with a smile "If the story you're about to tell me isn't true, good or necessary, just forget it and don't bother me with it.”
― Socrates

“There are only two mistakes one can make along the road to truth; not going all the way, and not starting.”
― Gautama Buddha

“There is nothing impossible in the world if you are determined. The”
― Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj, Meditations With Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj

“Absolute perfection is here and now, not in some future, near or far.
The secret is in action - here and now.
It is your behavior that blinds you to yourself.
Disregard whatever you think yourself to be and act as if you were absolutely perfect
- whatever your idea of perfection may be.
All you need is courage.”
― Nisargadatta Maharaj

“The journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step.”
― Lao Tzu

“If you can't fly then run, if you can't run then walk, if you can't walk then crawl, but whatever you do you have to keep moving forward.”
― Martin Luther King Jr.

“Hard choices, easy life. Easy choices, hard life.”
― Jerzy Gregorek

“History has proven that those who dare to imagine the impossible are the ones who break all human limitations.”
― A.P.J. Abdul Kalam, Learning How to Fly: Life Lessons for the Youth

“Always be kind, for everyone is fighting a hard battle.”
― Plato

“The purpose of life is to be defeated by greater and greater things.”
― Rainer Maria Rilke

“The only journey is the one within.”
― Rainer Maria Rilke

“Every man takes the limits of his own field of vision for the limits of the world.”
― Arthur Schopenhauer , Studies in Pessimism: The Essays

“The person who writes for fools is always sure of a large audience.”
― Arthur Schopenhauer, Religion: A Dialogue and Other Essays