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Welcome to these Thyself Quotes of the Day from my large collection of positive, romantic, and funny quotes.
Know thyself.
- Socrates (inscribed on the ancient Greek temple at Delphi)
Related topics: Wisdom
Look well into thyself; there is a source of strength
which will always spring up if thou wilt always look there.
- Marcus Aurelius
The only gift is a portion of thyself.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Be true to thyself.
- William Shakespeare
(paraphrase of Shakespeare's famous quote)
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Thank you for joining me on this journey we call life,
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Search others for their virtues, thyself for thy vices.
- Benjamin Franklin
Trust thyself: every heart vibrates to that iron string.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Anchoring in soft mud is dangerous.
Anchor thyself to the rocks of Faith, Compassion, and Service.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Know thyself, and thou shalt know the Universe and God.
- Pythagoras
The greatest gift is a portion of thyself.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
I offer my body, my mind
and any ability that I posses,
to be used by Thee, O Infinite Creator,
in whatever way Thou dost choose
to express Thyself through me.
I know that all work is Thy work,
and that no task is too difficult
or too menial when offered
to Thee in loving service.
- Paramahansa Yogananda
Most people consider the course of events as natural and inevitable.
They little know what radical change are possible through prayer.
Every morning I offer my body, my mind and any ability that I posses,
to be used by Thee, O infinite creator,
in whatever way Thou dost choose to express Thyself through me.
I know that all work is Thy work, and that no task is too difficult
or too menial when offered to Thee in loving service.
- Paramahansa Yogananda
Mama always said life was like a box of chocolates.
You never know what you're gonna get.
- the movie Forrest Gump
Know that the greatest fear is fear of the unknown.
Seek to meet the unknown with courage and a sense of adventure.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
God grant me the serenity
To accept the things I cannot change;
the courage to change the things I can;
and the wisdom to know the difference.
- Reinhold Niebuhr (Serenity Prayer)
To know yet to think that one does not know is best;
Not to know yet to think that one knows
will lead to difficulty.
- Lao Tzu
Stand Tall, Stand Proud.
Know that you are unique and magnificent.
You do not need the approval of others.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Know the power and the peace of saying,
"I love you just the way you are."
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
If you don't know where you're going,
any road will take you there.
- Lewis Carroll
(Alice in Wonderland)
Advice is what we ask for when we already know the answer
but wish we didn't.
- Erica Jong
One can not reflect in streaming water.
Only those who know internal peace can give it to others.
- Lao Tzu
Reputation is what other people know about you.
Honor is what you know about yourself.
- Lois McMaster Bujold
Knowledge is knowing that we cannot know.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
The only true wisdom is in knowing you know nothing.
- Socrates
Know the power of saying, "Thank you."
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
We shall not cease from exploration
And the end of all of our exploring
Will be to arrive where we started
And know the place for the first time
- T. S. Eliot
Know the power of perspective.
Be a passionate observer of life.
See the events, feel the emotions,
and recognize the difference.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
You have to know how to accept rejection, and reject acceptance.
- Ray Bradbury
To manage your mind,
know that there is nothing,
and then relinquish all attachment to nothingness.
- Lao Tzu
True knowledge exists in knowing that you know nothing.
- Socrates
Do you want to know who you are?
Don't ask. Act!
Action will delineate and define you.
- Thomas Jefferson
We are wiser than we know.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
The years teach much which the days never know.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
If it is surely the means to the highest end we know,
can any work be humble or disgusting?
Will it not rather be elevating as a ladder,
the means by which we are translated?
- Henry David Thoreau
Know that you do not need the approval of others.
You are unique and magnificent. Stand tall, stand proud.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
As for me, all I know is that I know nothing.
- Socrates
We cannot possibly let ourselves get frozen into regarding
everyone we do not know as an absolute stranger.
- Albert Schweitzer
About morals: I know only that
what is moral is what you feel good after
and what is immoral is what you feel bad after.
- Ernest Hemingway
It is better to displease the people
by doing what you know is right.
- William J. H. Boetcker
Know that you sail the seas of life
as the master of your own ship.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
I believe that it is better to tell the truth than a lie.
I believe it is better to be free than to be a slave.
And I believe it is better to know than to be ignorant.
- H.L. Mencken
Where are you going? Where does your path lead?
You can never know the future, yet wandering aimlessly
is unlikely to be the source of a fulfilling life.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
One thing I know: the only ones among you
who will be really happy are those
who will have sought and found how to serve.
- Albert Schweitzer
Uncertainty that comes from knowledge
(knowing what you don't know)
is different from uncertainty coming from ignorance.
- Isaac Asimov
This time, like all times, is a very good one,
if we but know what to do with it.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Learn the rules so you know how to break them properly.
- Tenzin Gyatso, the 14th Dalai Lama
Know that you do not need anyone's permission
to be your true self.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
To know what you prefer
instead of humbly saying Amen
to what the world tells you you ought to prefer,
is to have kept your soul alive.
- Robert Louis Stevenson
We know nothing at all.
All our knowledge is but the knowledge of schoolchildren.
The real nature of things we shall never know.
- Albert Einstein
Know that where there is love, nothing is missing.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Know that you have a choice about
everything you do and everything you do not do.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Know nothing. For to know nothing is to know everything.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Women are like teabags.
We don't know our true strength
until we are in hot water!
- Eleanor Roosevelt
When we do the best that we can,
we never know what miracle is wrought in our life,
or in the life of another.
- Helen Keller
You know that place between sleeping and awake,
that place where you can still remember dreaming?
That's where I'll always think of you.
- James M. Barrie
To laugh often and much;
to win the respect of intelligent people
and the affection of children,
to leave the world a better place,
to know even one life has breathed easier
because you have lived,
this is to have succeeded.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
I know the price of success: dedication, hard work,
and an unremitting devotion to the things you want to see happen.
- Frank Lloyd Wright
I don't know who my grandfather was;
I am much more concerned to know what his grandson will be.
- Abraham Lincoln
"Go to the people and live among them
in order to know them and learn from them.
- Jimmy Yen
"To know" is to know that you know nothing.
That is the meaning of true knowledge.
- Confucius
Those who know how to think need no teachers.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
As soon as you trust yourself,
you will know how to live.
- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Know that time, like life itself, has no inherent meaning.
You give your own meaning to time, as to life.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Know that all people are your brothers and sisters.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
When you see something done,
know that you intended it.
If you don't like what you see,
then deeply examine your intentions.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Your thoughts create your reality.
Your mind is more powerful than you know.
- Neale Donald Walsch
Know that you are never alone.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Know that the darkest night is often
the bridge to the brightest tomorrow.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Know, first, who you are, and then adorn yourself accordingly.
- Epictetus
I know that I am intelligent,
because I know that I know nothing.
- Socrates
Trust yourself. You know more than you think you do.
- Benjamin Spock
Ultimately we know deeply that the other side
of every fear is a freedom.
- Marilyn Ferguson
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- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
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