#thy

You can't please everybody all the time, but I think for the most part we tend to maintain a healthy level of self-reference to kind of make sure we continue to push things forward. ↗

— Ben Gibbard

#everybody #forward #healthy #i #i think

If caregivers are not healthy, mentally well-balanced and spiritually sound, then those for whom they care will suffer. ↗

— Leeza Gibbons

#healthy #mentally #sound #spiritually #suffer

Nobody needs to prove to anybody what they're worthy of, just the person that they look at in the mirror. That's the only person you need to answer to. ↗

— Picabo Street

#anybody #body needs #just #look #mirror

Know thyself. A maxim as pernicious as it is ugly. Whoever studies himself arrest his own development. A caterpillar who seeks to know himself would never become a butterfly. ↗

— Andre Gide

#become #butterfly #caterpillar #development #himself

My husband is not American. He was born in Brazil, where he grew up under a filthy, corrupt dictatorship. In his twenties, he moved to Europe, where he lived for a while under various socialist democracies. He spent a few years on a kibbutz in Israel, living out a utopian experiment in communal existence. ↗

— Elizabeth Gilbert

#born #brazil #communal #corrupt #democracies

Only by joy and sorrow does a person know anything about themselves and their destiny. They learn what to do and what to avoid. ↗

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

#about #anything #avoid #destiny #does

If you modestly enjoy your fame you are not unworthy to rank with the holy. ↗

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

#fame #holy #modestly #rank #unworthy

He who has a task to perform must know how to take sides, or he is quite unworthy of it. ↗

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

#know #must #perform #quite #sides

We ought to thank God for that. Yes, the man who tills the land is more worthy of respect than any. ↗