Socrates

The comic and the tragic lie inseparably close, like light and shadow.

Having the fewest wants, I am nearest to the gods.

Remember, no human condition is ever permanent. Then you will not be overjoyed in good fortune nor too scornful in misfortune.

Beauty is a short-lived tyranny.

Once made equal to man, woman becomes his superior.

Ordinary people seem not to realize that those who really apply themselves in the right way to philosophy are directly and of their own accord preparing themselves for dying and death.

Each step along the Buddha’s path to happiness requires practising mindfulness until it becomes part of your daily life.

I have a habit of running from the things I’ve prayed for and then asking God to send them again.

Only one thing is impossible for God: To find any sense in any copyright law on the planet.

[on enlightenment] Body and mind dropped off.

Inner surrender leads to the highest truth.

Faith consists in believing when it is beyond the power of reason to believe.

If we could get all religions together on a common purpose-the elimination of jealousies and the things that make men covet another’s belongings, we would be a long way toward the goal of outmoding war, depression and poverty.

I feel the presence of a higher power. I believe that what you give is what you get. It’s universal law. I believe in the power of prayer and of words. I’ve learned that when you predict that negative things will happen, they do.

If something is easy for you, work on it a little. If it’s hard for you, work on it a lot.

It is a naked city. Faith is not pampered, nor hope encouraged; there is no place to lay one’s exhaustion: but instead pinnacles skewer it undisguised against vacancy.

All that we are is the result of what we have thought.

In order to fulfill yourself, you have to forget yourself. In order to find yourself, you have to lose yourself.

Christianity is the highest perfection of humanity.

You must be the change you wish to see in the world.

What is a soul? It’s like electricity – we don’t really know what it is, but it’s a force that can light a room.