15 Best Socrates Quotes to Live by

 1. “Beware the barrenness of a busy life.” – Socrates 

2. “Nature has given us two ears, two eyes, and but one tongue-to the end that we should hear and see more than we speak.” – Socrates 

3. “Let him that would move the world first move himself.” – Socrates

4. “Be as you wish to seem.” – Socrates

5. “To know is to know that you know nothing. That is the meaning of true knowledge.” – Socrates

6. “An unexamined life is not worth living.” – Socrates

7. “To find yourself, think for yourself.” – Socrates

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

9. “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

10. “True wisdom comes to each of us when we realize how little we understand about life, ourselves, and the world around us.” – Socrates

11. “Be slow to fall into friendship; but when thou art in, continue firm and constant.” – Socrates

12. “Know thyself.” – Socrates

13. “Contentment is natural wealth, luxury is artificial poverty.” – Socrates

14. “He is richest who is content with the least, for content is the wealth of nature.” – Socrates

15. “It is not living that matters, but living rightly.” – Socrates

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10 JK Rowling Quotes About Life

1. " We are only as strong as we are united, as weak as we are divided." - JK Rowling

2. " Failure is so important. We speak about success all the time. It is the ability to resist failure or use failure that often leads to greater success. I've met people who don’t want to try for fear of failing." - JK Rowling

3. " I find that discussing an idea out loud is often the way to kill it stone dead." - JK Rowling

4. " It is our choices that show what we truly are, far more than our abilities." - JK Rowling

5. " Achievable goals are the first step to self-improvement." - JK Rowling

6. " As is a tale, so is life: not how long it is, but how good it is, is what matters." - JK Rowling

7. " The truth is always easier than a lie or an evasion -easier to deal with and easier to live with." - JK Rowling

8. " The world is full of wonderful things you haven’t seen yet. Don’t ever give up on the chance of seeing them." - JK Rowling

9. " We do not need magic to transform our world. We carry all the power we need inside ourselves already." - JK Rowling

10. " Sometimes, you have to stop trying to force it, walk away and let your subconscious show you the way. Fill up on life for a while." - JK Rowling

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25 Inspiring kindiness and Friendship Quotes For Your Best Friend

"Be kind, for everyone you meet is fighting a hard battle....Plato"

"Friendship consists in forgetting what one gives and remembering what one receives...Alexandre Dumas"

"Some people go to priests; others to poetry; I to my friends...Virginia Woolf'"

"No one is useless in this world who lightens the burdens of another....Charles Dickens"

"You can hate me. You can go out there and say anything you want about me, But you will love me later because I told you the truth.... Mary J. Blige"

"There are no strangers here; Only friends you haven’t yet met....W. B. Yeats"

"And say my glory was I had such friends.... W. B. Yeats"

"Let us be grateful to people who make us happy; they are the charming gardeners who make our souls blossom....Marcel Proust"

"Don’t walk behind me; I may not lead. Don’t walk in front of me; I may not follow. Just walk beside me and be my friend....Albert Camus"

"I have learned that to be with those I like is enough....Walt Whitman"

"The key is to keep company only with people who uplift you, whose presence calls forth your best....Epictetus"

"If I can stop one heart from breaking, I shall not live in vain. Emily Dickinson"

"Tell me thy company, and I’ll tell thee what thou art....Miguel de Cervantes"

"Friends show their love in times of trouble, not in happiness....Euripides"

"One loyal friend is worth ten thousand relatives...Euripides"

"One of the most beautiful qualities of true friendship is to understand and to be understood...Seneca"

"That best portion of a good man’s life, His little, nameless, unremembered acts of kindness and of love....William Wordsworth"

"The greatest good you can do for another is not just share your riches, but to reveal to him his own...Benjamin Disraeli"

       "You can do more good by being good than any other way....John Wooden"

"You feel alive to the degree that you feel you can help others...John Travolta"

"It is literally true that you can succeed best and quickest by helping others to succeed. ...Napoleon Hill"

"Kindness is the language which the deaf can hear and the blind can see....Mark Twain"

"We are all travelers in the wilderness of this world, and the best we can find in our travels is an honest friend....Robert Louis Stevenson"

"You begin saving the world by saving one man at a time; all else is grandiose romanticism or politics....Charles Bukowski"

"Nothing is easier than to denounce the evildoer; nothing is more difficult than to understand him....Fyodor Dostoyevsky"

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