#thyself

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

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Be able to be alone. Lose not the advantage of solitude, and the society of thyself. ↗

— Thomas Browne

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Only trust thyself, and another shall not betray thee. ↗

— William Penn

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Above the cloud with its shadow is the star with its light. Above all things reverence thyself. ↗

— Pythagoras

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

— Francis Quarles

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And thou wilt give thyself relief, if thou doest every act of thy life as if it were the last. ↗

— Marcus Aurelius

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Be charitable and indulge to everyone, but thyself. ↗

— Joseph Joubert

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What will bring peace is inward transformation, which will lead to outward action. Inward transformation is not isolation, is not withdrawal from outward action. On the contrary, there can be right action only when there is right thinking and there is no right thinking when there is no self-knowledge. Without knowing yourself, there is no peace. An Ideal is merely an escape, an avoidance of what is, a contradiction of what is. An ideal prevents direct action upon what is. To have peace, we will have to love, we will have to begin not to live an ideal life but to see things as they are and act upon them, transform them. As long as each one of us is seeking psychological security, the physiological security we need; food, clothing and shelter, is destroyed. Some of you will nod your heads and say, “I agree”, and go outside and do exactly the same as you have been doing for the last ten or twenty years. Your agreement is merely verbal and has no significance, for the world’s miseries and wars are not going to be stopped by your casual assent. They will be only stopped when you realize the danger, when you realize your responsibility, when you do not leave it to somebody else. If you realize the suffering, if you see the urgency of immediate action and do not postpone, then you will transform yourself. ↗

— Jiddu Krishnamurti

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Resolve to be thyself: and know that he who finds himself, loses his misery. ↗

— Matthew Arnold

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'Know thyself' is a good saying, but not in all situations. In many it is better to say 'know others.' ↗

— Menander

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