#thyself

Many become popular because they speak and write with a reductionist style that brings the complex and disturbing down into canned formulas of what spiritual growth is supposedly all about. Dozens of such New Age authors could bring their works together into one large volume entitled, “How To Become Aware of the Depths of Your Being Without Disturbing the Routine of Your Comfortable Lifestyle. ↗

— Lew Paz

#age

Be charitable and indulge to everyone, but thyself. ↗

— Joseph Joubert

#everyone #indulge #thyself

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

— Matthew Arnold

#himself #his #know #loses #misery

Thou hast created us for Thyself, and our heart is not quiet until it rests in Thee. ↗

— Saint Augustine

#hast #heart #our #quiet #rests

Everybody who flashed the signs of loyalty he took to be loyal. Everybody who flashed the signs of intelligence he took to be intelligent. And so he had failed to see into his daughter, failed to see into his wife, failed to see into his one and only mistress—probably had never even begun to see into himself ↗

— Philip Roth

#intelligence #know-thyself #loyalty #social-intelligence #intelligence

He who knows others is wise; he who knows himself is enlightened. ↗

— Lao Tzu

#understanding-others #enlightenment

Until you make peace with who you are, you'll never be content with what you have. ↗

— Doris Mortman

#know-thyself #contentment

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

— Democritus

#doing #injustice #suffer #thou #thyself

Indulge not thyself in the passion of anger; it is whetting a sword to wound thine own breast, or murder thy friend. ↗

— Akhenaton

#friend #indulge #murder #own #passion

Be thou incapable of change in that which is right, and men will rely upon thee. Establish unto thyself principles of action; and see that thou ever act according to them. First know that thy principles are just, and then be thou. ↗

— Akhenaton

#act #action #change #establish #ever