Thyself Quotes

• Know thyself, or at least keep renewing the acquaintance.

  Robert Breault

  Know Thyself, Acquaintance, Knows

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• Be thou what thou singly art and personate only thyself. Swim smoothly in the stream of thy nature and live but one man.

  Thomas Browne

  Art, Self Esteem, Self Confidence

  Sir Thomas Browne, Claire Preston (1995). “Selected Writings”, p.155, Psychology Press

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• Observe all men, thyself most.

  Benjamin Franklin

  Men, Self Observation, Poor Richard

  Benjamin Franklin (2007). “Poor Richard's Almanack”, p.56, Skyhorse Publishing, Inc.

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• Knowing yourself is the beginning of all wisdom.

  Aristotle

  Inspirational, Wisdom, Business

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• We will discover the nature of our particular genius when we stop trying to conform to our own or other people's models, learn to be ourselves, and allow our natural channel to open.

  Shakti Gawain

  Motivational, Nature, Self Esteem

  Shakti Gawain (2011). “Living in the Light, 25th Anniversary Edition: Follow Your Inner Guidance to Create a New Life and a New World”, p.37, New World Library

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• In the Heart's cavity, the sole Brahman as an ever-persisting 'I' shines direct in the form of the Self. Into the Heart enter thyself, with mind in search or in deeper plunge. Or by
  restraint of life-movement be firmly poised in the Self.

  Ramana Maharshi

  Heart, Self, Shining

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• Who had deceived thee so often as thyself?

  Benjamin Franklin

  Deception, Thee, Deceived

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• First get an absolute conquest over thyself, and then thou wilt easily govern thy wife.

  Thomas Fuller

  Wife, Firsts, Conquest

  Thomas Fuller (1815). “An introduction to prudence”, p.30

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• Look well into thyself; there is a source of strength which will always spring up if thou wilt always look.

  Marcus Aurelius

  Strength, Spring, Emotional

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• Flatter not thyself in thy faith in God if thou hast not charity for thy neighbor.

  Francis Quarles

  Love, Charity, Faith In God

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• When about to commit a base deed, respect thyself, though there is no witness.

  Decimius Magnus Ausonius

  Character, Honor, Deeds

  "Septem Sapientum Sententiæ Septenis Veribus Explicatæ". "Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations" by Jehiel Keeler Hoyt, 1922.

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• Eat to please thyself, but dress to please others.

  Benjamin Franklin

  Liberty, Dresses, Thrive

  Benjamin Franklin (2007). “Poor Richard's Almanack”, p.53, Skyhorse Publishing, Inc.

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• Search others for their virtues, thyself for thy vices.

  Benjamin Franklin

  Wise, Wisdom, 4th Of July

  Benjamin Franklin (1998). “Benjamin Franklin Wit and Wisdom”, p.12, Peter Pauper Press, Inc.

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• Every morning I offer my body, my mind and any ability that I posses, to be used by Thee, O infinite creator, in whatever way Thou dost choose to express Thyself through me. I know that all work is Thy work, and that no task is too difficult or too menial when offered to Thee in loving service.

  Paramahansa Yogananda

  Morning, Mind, Tasks

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• Absolve me, teach me, purify me, strengthen me: take me to Thyself, that I may be Thine and Thine only.

  Joseph Barber Lightfoot

  May, Teach, Take Me

  Joseph Barber Lightfoot (Bishop of Durham) (1890). “Ordination addresses and counsels to clergy”

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• If thou suffer injustice, console thyself; the true unhappiness is in doing it.

  Democritus

  Suffering, Injustice, Unhappiness

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• If thou art master to thyself, circumstances shall harm thee little.

  Martin Farquhar Tupper

  Art, Littles, Awareness

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• Transform reason into ordered intuition; let all thyself be light. This is thy goal.

  Sri Aurobindo

  Light, Goal, Intuition

  Sri Aurobindo International Centre of Education (Pondicherry, India), Aurobindo Ghose (1988). “Bulletin Du Centre International D'éducation Sri Aurobindo”

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• Learn to see it in thyself and thou wilt understand the infinite essence, hidden in all illusory forms. Understand that the world which thou knowest is only one of the aspects of the infinite world, and things and phenomena are merely hierolgyphics of deeper ideas.

  P.D. Ouspensky

  Essence, Ideas, World

  P. D. Ouspensky (1913). “The Symbolism of the Tarot: Philosophy of Occultism in Pictures and Numbers”, p.28, Courier Corporation

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• The thing that is really hard, and really amazing, is giving up on being perfect and beginning the work of becoming yourself.

  Anna Quindlen

  Confidence, Letting Go, Being Yourself

  Anna Quindlen (2009). “Being Perfect”, p.15, Random House

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• Not until we are lost do we begin to understand ourselves.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Wisdom, Travel, Character

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  No one can make you feel inferior without your consent.

  Eleanor Roosevelt

  Inspirational, Motivational, Happiness

  Quoted in Vidette-Messenger (Valparaiso, Ind.), 7 June 1941 See Channing 1

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• Man know thyself; then thou shalt know the Universe and God.

  Pythagoras

  Men, Know Thyself, Knows

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• A caterpillar who seeks to know himself would never become a butterfly

  Andre Gide

  Butterfly, Know Thyself, Caterpillars

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• The proper study of Mankind is Man.

  Alexander Pope

  Men, Occupy Yourself, Literature

  An Essay on Man Epistle 2, l. 1 (1733) See Charron 1

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