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• Only in relationship can you know yourself, not in abstraction, and certainly not in isolation.

  Jiddu Krishnamurti

  Relationship, Isolation, Knows

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• If you live with alertness, you live rightly.
  If you live in imitation, you live wrongly.
  To me there is only one sin:
  And that is not to be yourself.
  And to me there is only one virtue:
  And that is to know yourself.

  Rajneesh

  Being Yourself, Alertness, Sin

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• Don`t imitate. If you want to know who you are, please avoid imitation, that`s a way of avoiding knowing yourself.

  Rajneesh

  Knowing, Want, Way

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• Do not know yourself. I want to continue to surprise me.

  Arielle Dombasle

  Want, Surprise, Surprising

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• If you're not satisfied with the way the world is, or if you think the world can be better, you have to figure out a way to know yourself and better yourself. Then you have the assurance that something in the world has improved.

  Todd Rundgren

  Thinking, World, Assurance

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• To know yourself you have only to set down a true statement of those that ever loved or hated you.

  Johann Kaspar Lavater

  Love, Self Knowledge, Hated

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• I am the only person in the world I should like to know thoroughly.

  Oscar Wilde

  Thought Provoking, World, Should

  Oscar Wilde (2015). “Lady Windermere's Fan”, p.33, Oscar Wilde

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• Today, Jesus stands ready to hear your cry and to answer prayer for you. He is interested in every detail of your life. He knows you better than you know yourself.

  Kathryn Kuhlman

  Jesus, Prayer, Details

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• You mine your own past in order to get to know yourself.

  Laurie Simmons

  Past, Order, Mines

  Source: www.hollywoodreporter.com

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• Know yourself -- and know your audience.

  Tennessee Ernie Ford

  Audience, Knows

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• To know yourself you need not go to any book, to any priest, to any psychologist. The whole treasure is within yourself.

  Jiddu Krishnamurti

  Philosophy, Book, Knowing

  Jiddu Krishnamurti, Susunaga Weeraperuma (1996). “Sayings of J. Krishnamurti”, p.174, Motilal Banarsidass Publ.

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• The more you know yourself, the more clarity there is. Self-knowledge has no end - you don't come to an achievement, you don't come to a conclusion. It is an endless river.

  Jiddu Krishnamurti

  Self, Rivers, Achievement

  Jiddu Krishnamurti (1991). “The Collected Works of J. Krishnamurti: 1948-1949 : Choiceless awareness”, Kendall/Hunt Publishing Company

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• Good art is born from knowing yourself deeply: Your art cannot hide how much you have discovered about yourself.

  Zhang Xiaogang

  Art, Knowing, Born

  Source: www.thebeijinger.com

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• First know yourself, then know others.

  Gichin Funakoshi

  Firsts, Knows

  Gichin Funakoshi, Genwa Nakasone, Jotaro Takagi (2003). “空手道二十訓: The Spiritual Legacy of the Master”, p.33, Kodansha International

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• I am neither especially clever nor especially gifted. I am only very, very curious.

  Albert Einstein

  Life, Success, God

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• If you don't know yourself, if you don't control yourself, if you don't have mastery over yourself, it's very hard to like yourself, except in some short-term, psych-up, superficial way.

  Stephen Covey

  Psych, Over You, Way

  Stephen R. Covey (2016). “The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People: Powerful Lessons in Personal Change Interactive Edition”, p.228, Mango Media Inc.

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• I think everyone deals with things in their own way. Everybody's different. My family are all different. None of us are the same. We all deal with different things in different ways. I think it's about knowing yourself, what pushes your buttons, and figuring out how to work with yourself.

  Venus Williams

  Thinking, Different, My Family

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• To know others is to have knowledge. To know yourself is to be enlightened.

  Laozi

  Enlightened, Knows

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• It's true that the best way of knowing yourself is to put yourself into different situations.

  Abbas Kiarostami

  Knowing, Different, Way

  "They Should Be Grateful: An Interview with Abbas Kiarostami". Interview with Zachary Wigon, filmmakermagazine.com. February 13, 2013.

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• One of the basic laws of human existence is: find yourself, know yourself, be yourself.

  Norman Vincent Peale

  Being Yourself, Law, Finding Yourself

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• The deep root of failure in our lives is to think, 'Oh how useless and powerless I am.' It is essential to think strongly and forcefully, 'I can do it,' without boasting or fretting.

  Dalai Lama

  Thinking, Roots, Essentials

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• It's important to know yourself well, in order to create your own style of fashion to suit your own body shape.

  Sonia Rykiel

  Fashion, Order, Style

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• I am only a public entertainer who understands his time.

  Pablo Picasso

  Entertainers

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• First know yourself, then you will begin to understand why things are as they are, and why life is as it is.

  Leon Brown

  Life, Firsts, Knows

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• You never know yourself till you know more than your body.

  Thomas Traherne

  Knowledge, Body, Knows

  Thomas Traherne (2010). “Centuries of Meditations”, p.12, Cosimo, Inc.

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