Thyself Quotes - Page 12

• Men seek out retreats for themselves in the country, by the seaside, on the moutains . . . But all this is unphilosophical to the last degree . . . when thou canst at a moment's notice retire into thyself.

  Marcus Aurelius

  Country, Men, Degrees

  Marcus Aurelius (2014). “Delphi Complete Works of Marcus Aurelius (Illustrated)”, p.42, Delphi Classics

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• Thou shalt love thy neighbor as thyself." Why? Because every human being has a root in the Unity, and to reject the minutest particle of the Unity is to reject it all.

  Baal Shem Tov

  Roots, Unity, Neighbor

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• Free thyself from the mighty attraction-
  The maddening wine of love, the charm of sex.
  Break the harp! Forward, with the ocean's cry!. . .

  Swami Vivekananda

  Sex, Ocean, Wine

  Swami Vivekananda (2015). “The Complete Works of Swami Vivekananda”, p.1894, Manonmani Publishers

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• Anti-theses.- The most senile thing ever thought about man is contained in the celebrated saying 'the ego is always hateful'; the most childish is the even more celebrated 'love thy neighbor as thyself'. - In the former, knowledge of human nature has ceased, in the latter it has not yet even begun.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Men, Ego, Hateful

  Friedrich Nietzsche, R. J. Hollingdale (1996). “Nietzsche: Human, All Too Human: A Book for Free Spirits”, p.296, Cambridge University Press

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• Let me ever love Thyself more than Thy service.

  Howard Carter

  Church, Love Thyself, Let Me

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• Make not thyself the judge of any man.

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

  Men, Judging, Prison

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (2012). “My Complete Poetical Works (Annotated Edition)”, p.810, Jazzybee Verlag

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• Take heed of driving so hard after this world, as to hinder thyself and family from those duties towards God, which thou art by grace obliged to; as private prayer, reading the scriptures, and Christian conference. It is a base thing for men so to spend themselves and families after this world, as that they disengage their heart to God's worship.

  John Bunyan

  Christian, Art, Prayer

  JOHN BUNYAN (1860). “THE ENTIRE WORKS”, p.171

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• I hate organized religion. I think you have to love thy neighbor as thyself. I think you have to pick your own God and be true to him. I always say 'him' rather than 'her.' Maybe it's because of my generation, but I don't like the idea of a female God. I see God as a benevolent male.

  Julia Child

  Hate, Thinking, Ideas

  "Julia Child: What I've Learned". Interview with Mike Sager, www.esquire.com. June 2001.

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• Thyself shall see the act; For, as thou urgest justice, be assured Thou shalt have justice, more than thou desir'st.

  William Shakespeare

  Justice, Assured

  'The Merchant of Venice' (1596-8) act 4, sc. 1, l. [315]

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• Titus Andronicus, my lord the Emperor
  Sends thee this word, that, if thou love thy sons,
  Let Marcus, Lucius, or thyself, old Titus,
  Or any one of you, chop off your hand
  And send it to the King: he for the same
  Will send thee hither both thy sons alive,
  And that shall be the ransom for their fault.

  William Shakespeare

  Kings, Son, Hands

  William Shakespeare, Samuel Johnson, George Steevens, Isaac Reed (1819). “Henry V. King Henry VI, part 1. King Henry VI, part 2. King Henry VI, part 3. King Richard III. King Henry VIII. Troilus and Cressida. Timon of Athens. Coriolanus. Julius Caesar. Antony and Cleopatra. Cymbeline. Titus Andronicus. Pericles. King Lear. Romeo and Juliet. Hamlet. Othello”, p.419

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• The only gift is a portion of thyself . . . the poet brings his poem; the shepherd his lamb. . . .

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Poetry, Shepherds, Lambs

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2004). “A Dream Too Wild: Emerson Meditations for Every Day of the Year”, Unitarian Universalist Association of Congregations

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• Hast thou attuned thyself to the suffering of humanity, O candidate for light?

  H. P. Blavatsky

  Light, Humanity, Suffering

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• And it is so simple... The one thing is - love thy neighbor as thyself - that is the one thing. That is all, nothing else is needed. You will instantly find how to live.

  Fyodor Dostoevsky

  Simple, Neighbor, Needed

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• Invoke often! Inflame thyself with prayer!

  Aleister Crowley

  Prayer, Invoke

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• By all means sometimes be alone; salute thyself; see what thy soul doth wear; dare to look in thy chest; and tumble up and down what thou findest there.

  William Wordsworth

  Knowledge, Mean, Soul

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• Try first thyself, and after call in God; For to the worker God himself lends aid.

  Euripides

  Work, Trying, Firsts

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• Self-awareness is not self-centeredness, and spirituality is not narcissism. 'Know thyself' is not a narcissistic pursuit.

  Marianne Williamson

  Love, Inspirational, Forgiveness

  Mother Jones Magazine, Volume 22, No. 6, November - December 1997.

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• Conquer thyself, till thou has done this, thou art but a slave; for it is almost as well to be subjected to another's appetite as to thine own.

  Richard Francis Burton

  Art, Past, Done

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• Make it thy business to know thyself, which is the most difficult lesson in the world. Yet from this lesson thou will learn to avoid the frog's foolish ambition of swelling to rival the bigness of the ox.

  Miguel de Cervantes

  Business, Learning, Ambition

  Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra (1993). “Don Quixote”, p.586, Wordsworth Editions

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• Late have I loved Thee, O Lord; and behold, Thou wast within and I without, and there I sought Thee. Thou was with me when I was not with Thee. Thou didst call, and cry, and burst my deafness. Thou didst gleam, and glow, and dispell my blindness. Thou didst touch me, and I burned for Thy peace. For Thyself Thou hast made us, and restless our hearts until in Thee they find their ease. Late have I loved Thee, Thou Beauty ever old and ever new. Thou hast burst my bonds asunder; unto Thee will I offer up an offering of praise.

  Saint Augustine

  Love, Peace, Heart

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• COMMEMORATION Blessed art Thou, O Lord who didst bring forth of water moving creatures that have life, and whales, and winged fowls: and didst bless them, so as to increase and multiply. The things concerning the Ascension: Set up Thyself, O God, above the heavens and Thy glory above all the earth. By thine Ascension draw us withal unto Thee, O Lord, so as to set our affections on things above, and not on things on the earth. By the awful mystery of Thy Holy Body and Precious Blood in the evening of this day: Lord, have mercy.

  Lancelot Andrewes

  Life, Art, Moving

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• The sweetest lives are those to duty wed, Whose deeds, both great and small Are close-knot strands of an unbroken thread There love ennobles all. The world may sound no trumpets, ring no bells The book of life the shining record tells. Thy love shall chant its own beatitudes After its own life-workings. A child's kiss Set on thy sighing lips shall make thee glad; A poor man served by thee shall make thee rich; A sick man helped by thee shall make thee strong; Thou shalt serve thyself by every sense, Of service which thou renderest.

  Elizabeth Barrett Browning

  Love, Life, Strong

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• One of the perks of being a psychologist is access to tools that allow you to carry out the injunction to know thyself.

  Steven Pinker

  Tools, Psychologist, Know Thyself

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• There are two sentences inscribed upon the Ancient oracle... "Know thyself" and "Nothing too much"; and upon these all other precepts depend.

  Plutarch

  Two, Oracles, Too Much

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• O Romeo, Romeo, wherefore art thou Romeo? Deny thy father refuse thy name, thou art thyself thou not a montegue, what is montegue? tis nor hand nor foot nor any other part belonging to a man What is in a name? That which we call a rose by any other name would smell as sweet, So Romeo would were he not Romeo called retain such dear perfection to which he owes without that title, Romeo, Doth thy name! And for that name which is no part of thee, take all thyself.

  William Shakespeare

  Love, Sweet, Art

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