Socrates Quotes
He who is not contented with what he has, would not be contented with what he would like to have.
Quotes to Explore
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It became clear to me in an instant that living a gay life without publicly acknowledging it is simply not enough to make any significant contribution to the immense work that lies ahead on the road to complete equality.
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It's not complicated to embrace life. You just have to make the choice.
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Then about 1951 I began writing again, painfully, a novel I called in the beginning A Life Sentence on Earth, but which developed into The Tree of Man.
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I have not cared for money, and I enjoy working. Money comes my way. People work hard so they get enough money. Or they work hard so they don't have to work hard later in life. But though I don't need money, I still work hard because I like what I am doing.
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Educational institutes can no longer be prizes in church politics or furnish berths for failure in other walks of life.
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Life will end in death and unhappiness, but we do it anyway.
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Most of us have far more courage than we ever dreamed we possessed.
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Let us remember: One book, one pen, one child, and one teacher can change the world.
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The only living works are those which have drained much of the author's own life into them.
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Yes, I believe the will is very important. It's how I have succeeded in life.
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The simple reality of life is that everyone is wrong on a regular basis. By confronting these inevitable errors, you allow yourself to make corrections before it is too late.
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When you write for children and young adults, you have much more affect and influence on them than when you write for adults. The books that get us through our childhood stay with us for life.
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Irrelevance is the feeling that an employee gets when they don't see how their job really makes a difference in someone else's life in some large or small way.
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The most beautiful thing in the world is, of course, the world itself.
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I can't honestly account for the very personal response that I have to one story and not another, a sense of an orbit, the orbit of a world that draws me as my own life recedes.
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I feel like a little beast when I'm onstage, and I feel like my fans have that little beast inside of them, too: this hunger for life.
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Without music, life is a journey through a desert.
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I would do what I pleased, and doing what I pleased, I should have my will, and having my will, I should be contented; and when one is contented, there is no more to be desired; and when there is no more to be desired, there is an end of it.
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Relativity applies to physics, not ethics.
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If you think you control things that are in the control of others, you will lament. You will be disturbed and you will blame both gods and men.
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I just need your talking next to me when I wake up, talking next to me when I wake up next to you, when I’m hungover too. ‘Cause you’re the only one who comes when I’m lonely. You’re the only one who comes when I’m lonely for you, when I’m lonely for you…
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I think it's huge in a believer's life to have music that's pouring into their new life and not dragging them back into their old life.
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He who is not contented with what he has, would not be contented with what he would like to have.
