23 quotes
"One word frees us of all the weight and pain of life: That word is love."
- Sophocles
Love
"One word frees us of all the weight and pain of life: that word is love."
- Sophocles
Love
"One word frees us of all the weight and pain in life. That word is love!"
- Sophocles
Love
"“One word frees us of all the weight and pain of life: that word is love.”"
- Sophocles
Love
""One word frees us of all the weight and pain of life: That word is love.""
- Sophocles
Love
""Sons are the anchors of a mother's life.""
- Sophocles
Love
"To throw away an honest friend is, as it were, to throw your life away."
- Sophocles
Belief
"Kindness begets kindness."
- Sophocles
Compassion
"The keenest sorrow is to recognize ourselves as the sole cause of all our adversities."
- Sophocles
Self-awareness
"I would prefer even to fail with honor than win by cheating."
- Sophocles
Integrity
"Without labor nothing prospers."
- Sophocles
Hard Work
"Without labor, nothing prospers."
- Sophocles
Hard Work
"Success is dependent on effort."
- Sophocles
Hard Work
"The greatest griefs are those we cause ourselves."
- Sophocles
Adversity
"There is no success without hardship."
- Sophocles
Success
"Children are the anchors that hold a mother to life."
- Sophocles
Connection to Earth
""Sons are the anchors of a mother’s life.""
- Sophocles
Connection to Earth
"All men make mistakes, but a good man yields when he knows his course is wrong, and repairs the evil. The only crime is pride."
- Sophocles
Failure
"He who seeks shall find."
- Sophocles
Wisdom
"Sons are the anchors of a mother’s life."
- Sophocles
Family
"One who knows how to show and to accept kindness will be a friend better than any possession."
- Sophocles
Gratitude
"Old age and the passage of time teach all things."
- Sophocles
Philosophy
"Death departing from men receives the greatest praise for vanquishing them; but when he stays long with them, they blame him because he did not go sooner."
- Sophocles
Philosophy