If all our misfortunes were laid in one common heap whence everyone must take an equal portion, most people would be content to take their own and depart.

Socrates
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  1. We're all golden sunflowers inside. - Allen Ginsberg

  2. Happiness is not a goal...it's a by-product of a life well lived. - Eleanor Roosevelt

  3. [F]or just one second, look at your life and see how perfect it is. Stop looking for the next secret door that is going to lead you to your real life. Stop waiting. This is it: there's nothing else. It's here, and you'd better decide... - Lev Grossman

  4. In a person's lifetime there may be not more than half a dozen occasions that he can look back to in the certain knowledge that right then, at that moment, there was room for nothing but happiness in his heart. - Ernestine Gilbreth Carey

  5. Learn from yesterday, live for today, look to tomorrow, rest this afternoon. - Charles M. Schulz

More Quotes By Socrates
  1. Not life, but good life, is to be chiefly valued.

  2. Know thyself.

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

  4. The greatest blessing granted to mankind come by way of madness, which is a divine gift.

  5. The children now love luxury. They have bad manners, contempt for authority; they show disrespect for elders and love chatter in place of exercise.

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