Know Yourself Quotes - Page 6

• Do you want to know yourself better? Then discover silence.

  Pope Benedict XVI

  Silence, Want, Knows

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• You never know yourself till you know more than your body.

  Thomas Traherne

  Knowledge, Body, Knows

  Thomas Traherne (2010). “Centuries of Meditations”, p.12, Cosimo, Inc.

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• Don't try to be like me. Try to be like yourself. Try to be very good at being yourself.

  Josh Groban

  Being Yourself, Trying, Like You

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• Believe in yourself, know yourself, deny yourself, and be humble.

  John Treacy

  Running, Believe, Humble

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• The purpose of the heart is to know yourself, to be yourself, and yet one with God.

  Edgar Cayce

  Love, Being Yourself, Hate

  Edgar Cayce (1971). “A Commentary on the Book of the Revelations: Based on a Study of Twenty-four Psychic Discourses of Edgar Cayce”

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• The final aim is not to know, but to be.... You've got to know yourself so that you can at last be yourself. "Be yourself" is the last motto.

  D. H. Lawrence

  Being Yourself, Finals, Lasts

  D.H. Lawrence (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of D.H. Lawrence (Illustrated)”, p.8079, Delphi Classics

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• It is usually the case that people who know you better than you know yourself think you're a pretty good person.

  Robert Breault

  Relationship, Thinking, People

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• Love helps you to know yourself... turn your vision inward.

  Sathya Sai Baba

  Love, Vision, Inward

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• Get to know yourself. Know your own failings, passions, and prejudices so you can separate them from what you see. Know also when you actually have thought through to the nature of the thing with which you are dealing and when you are not thinking at all... Knowing yourself and knowing the facts, you can judge whether you can change the situation so it is more to your liking. If you cannot--or if you do not know how to improve on things--then discipline yourself to the adjustments that will be necessary.

  Bernard Baruch

  Passion, Thinking, Knowing

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• You are already perfect, only you don't know it. Learn to know yourself and you will discover wonders.

  Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj

  Perfect, Wonder, Knows

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• Learn to know yourself... to search realistically and regularly the processes of your own mind and feelings.

  Nelson Mandela

  Knowledge, Feelings, Mind

  Nelson Mandela (2011). “Conversations With Myself”, p.7, Pan Macmillan

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• Don't play it safe. Resist the seductions of the cowardly values our society has come to prize so highly: comfort, convenience, security, predictability, control. These, too, are nets. Above all, resist the fear of failure. Yes, you will make mistakes. But they will be your mistakes, not someone else's. And you will survive them, and you will know yourself better for having made them, and you will be a fuller and a stronger person.

  William Deresiewicz

  Mistake, Play, Stronger

  "What Are You Going to Do With That?". Essay adapted from a talk delivered to a freshman class at Stanford University in May 2010, www.chronicle.com. October 03, 2010.

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• Know yourself and go in swinging, if it hurts when you hit, it might be real, too.

  Patrick Ness

  Hurt, Real, Might

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• Knowing yourself as the awareness behind the voice is freedom.

  Eckhart Tolle

  Freedom, Voice, Knowing

  Eckhart Tolle (2010). “Stillness Speaks”, p.29, New World Library

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• To truly know the world, look deeply within your own being; to truly know yourself, take real interest in the world.

  Rudolf Steiner

  Real, Looks, World

  "Verses and Meditations". Book by Rudolf Steiner, 1985.

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• The journey of consciousness, of mysticism, is to come to know yourself and your own motivations.

  Caroline Myss

  Motivation, Journey, Consciousness

  Twitter post from Oct 02, 2013

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• If you know yourself, then you'll not be harmed by what is said about you.

  Sufyan al-Thawri

  Self Esteem, Islamic, Knowing

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• You never really know yourself until you see yourself under pressure.

  Joyce Meyer

  Pressure, Under Pressure, Knows

  Twitter post from Nov 9, 2012

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• You are the light of the world. You are the
  consciousness that illuminates the world. Know yourself as that, and that's
  freedom, liberation, awakening, the end of suffering and madness. And it's
  happening right here.

  Eckhart Tolle

  Light, Suffering, World

  FaceBook post by Eckhart Tolle from Jul 08, 2010

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• There is nothing to do, just be. Do nothing. Be. No climbing mountains and sitting in caves. I do not even say "be yourself" since you do not know yourself. Just be.

  Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj

  Inspirational, Being Yourself, Climbing

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• So, how do you get back to heaven?
  To begin with, just notice the thoughts that take you away from it.
  You don't have to believe everything your thoughts tell you.
  Just become familiar with the particular thoughts you use
  to deprive yourself of happiness.
  It may seem strange at first to get to know yourself in this way,
  but becoming familiar with your stressful thoughts
  will show you the way home to everything you need.

  Byron Katie

  Happiness, Believe, Home

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• Although it is embarrassing and painful, it is very healing to stop hiding from yourself. It is healing to know all the ways that you’re sneaky, all the ways that you hide out, all the ways that you shut down, deny, close off, criticize people, all your weird little ways. You can know all of that with some sense of humor and kindness. By knowing yourself, you’re coming to know humanness altogether. We are all up against these things. We are all in this together.

  Pema Chodron

  Kindness, Healing, Knowing

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• The trail compels you to know yourself and to be yourself, and puts you in harmony with the universe. It makes you glad to be living. It gives health, hope, and courage, and it extends that touch of nature which tends to make you kind.

  Enos Mills

  Inspirational, Hope, Courage

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• You want to know yourself. For this keep steadily in the focus of consciousness, the only clue you have: your certainty of being. Be with it, play with it, ponder over it, delve deeply into it, till the shell of ignorance breaks open and you emerge into the realm of reality.

  Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj

  Ignorance, Reality, Play

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• We may encounter many defeats, but we must not be defeated. It may even be necessary to encounter the defeat so that we can know who we are. So that we can see, "Oh, that happened, and I rose. I did get knocked down flat in front of the whole world, and I rose. I didn't run away; I rose right where I'd been knocked down." That's how you get to know yourself.

  Maya Angelou

  Running, Strong Women, Rose

  Interview with Marianne Schnall, www.psychologytoday.com. February 17, 2009.

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