#thyself

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

— Thomas Fuller

#conquest #easily #first #get #govern

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

— Joseph Barber Lightfoot

#i #may #me #only #purify

Empathy is born out of the old biblical injunction 'Love the neighbor as thyself.' ↗

— George McGovern

#empathy #injunction #love #neighbor #old

Persuade thyself that imperfection and inconvenience are the natural lot of mortals, and there will be no room for discontent, neither for despair. ↗

— Ieyasu Tokugawa

#discontent #imperfection #inconvenience #lot #mortals

An humble knowledge of thyself is a surer way to God than a deep search after learning. ↗

— Thomas a Kempis

#deep #god #humble #knowledge #learning

What we become shouldn't be dictated by the mud and the dung and the dust and the fire and the ice and the dirt and the spit that hit us in the face, but what we become must be a choice made every day in the heart; and they who threw all of that at us to try and defile us– they will look up at us and see us no less beautiful. And even more beautiful. ↗

— C. JoyBell C.

#inspirational-quotes #know-thyself #beauty

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

We must not be defined by what we do, but we must be what and who we are, then only happen to do what we do! ↗

— C. JoyBell C.

#inspirational-outlook #inspirational-quotes #jobs #know-thyself #lot-in-life

I don't want to be like Shakespeare; I want to be like Saurabh Sharma, and I don't want other people to become my xerox copies. Be Thyself! ↗

— Saurabh Sharma

#ideals #motivation #self-help #motivational

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

— Marcus Aurelius

#every #give #last #life #relief