words to live by people

"why should anyone be scared of death? Lest you might fear a place that might be better for you"

Socrates and Kais

خنده نمک زندګی است

Your despair only deepens your worthlessness.

Like a dog who grows older in a shelter, you are judged like a pathetic slab of meat by everyone you know.

You are a commodity in a world where humans are the rarely spoken of trade.

"Those who don't know how to fight worry, die young."

Dale Carnegie

"our life is what our thoughts make it."

Marcus Aurelius

I succeed in all what I do. It gets boring.

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This thread is for inspirational quotes, not border line psychotic rants.

A system of morality which is based on relative emotional values is a mere illusion, a thoroughly vulgar conception which has nothing sound in it and nothing true.
Socrates

All men's souls are immortal, but the souls of the righteous are immortal and divine.
Socrates

An honest man is always a child.
Socrates

As for me, all I know is that I know nothing.
Socrates

As to marriage or celibacy, let a man take which course he will, he will be sure to repent.
Socrates

Be as you wish to seem.
Socrates

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

Beauty is a short-lived tyranny.

Socrates

Beauty is the bait which with delight allures man to enlarge his kind.
Socrates

Beware the barrenness of a busy life.

Socrates

"It's an old rule of logic that the competence of a speaker has no relevance to the truth of what he says, ... The world's biggest fool can say the sun is shining, but that doesn't make it dark out."

"The place to improve the world is first in one's own heart and head and hands, and then work outward from there."

When elephants fight, it is the grass that suffers

-An old Kenyan proverb.



Very appropriate given the historical & contemporary situation of Afghanistan & the Afghans.

"Ka musafar si, bya ba rasi."


Whatever goes, always comes back in some form or the other.