Thyself Quotes - Page 13

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

  George McGovern

  Biblical, Empathy, Neighbor

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• Endeavor to be always patient of the faults and imperfections of others; for thou hast many faults and imperfections of thine own that require forbearance. If thou art not able to make thyself that which thou wishest, how canst thou expect to mold another in conformity to thy will?

  Thomas a Kempis

  Art, Imperfection, Mold

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• Set not thyself to attain much rest, but much patience.

  Thomas a Kempis

  Patient, Be Patient

  Saint Augustine of Hippo, Saint Augustine, Thomas A'Kempis (2006). “The Confessions of St. Augustine, Including the Imitation of Christ”, p.312, Cosimo, Inc.

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• Drown thyself? Drown cats and blind puppies.

  William Shakespeare

  Cat, Puppy, Blind

  William Shakespeare (1823). “The Dramatic Works of William Shakspeare: From the Text of Johnson, Stevens, and Reed; with Glossarial Notes, His Life, and a Critique on His Genius & Writings”, p.946

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• The 11th Commandment: Thou Shalt Not Bore God. The 12th Commandment: Thou Shalt Not Bore Thyself.

  Rob Brezsny

  Boredom, Bores, Commandments

  Rob Brezsny (2005). “Pronoia Is the Antidote for Paranoia: How the Whole World Is Conspiring to Shower You with Blessings”, p.11, Frog Books

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• There is one plain rule of life. Try thyself unweariedly till thou findest the highest thing thou art capable of doing, faculties and outward circumstances being both duly considered, and then do it.

  John Stuart Mill

  Art, Excellence, Trying

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• He who has injured thee was either stronger or weaker than thee. If weaker, spare him; if stronger, spare thyself.

  William Shakespeare

  Strength, Memorable, Stronger

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• Lean on thyself until thy strength is tried; Then ask God's help; it will not be denied. Use thine own sight to see the way to go; When darkness falls ask God the path to show. Think for thyself and reason out thy plan; God has His work and thou hast thine. Exert thy will and use for self-control; God gave thee jurisdiction of thy soul. All thine immortal powers bring into play; Think, act, strive, reason, and look up and pray.

  Ella Wheeler Wilcox

  Strength, Fall, Thinking

  Ella Wheeler Wilcox (2016). “Complete Poetical Works of Ella Wheeler Wilcox (Delphi Classics)”, p.1630, Delphi Classics

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• Where the heart is, there the muses, there the gods sojourn, and not in any geography of fame. Massachusetts, Connecticut River, and Boston Bay, you think paltry places, and the ear loves names of foreign and classic topography. But here we are; and, if we tarry a little, we may come to learn that here is best. See to it, only, that thyself is here;--and art and nature, hope and fate, friends, angels, and the Supreme Being, shall not absent from the chamber where thou sittest.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Inspirational, Art, Angel

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1983). “Essays and Lectures”, p.378, Library of America

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• And, in fine, the ancient precept, "Know thyself," and the modern precept, "Study nature," become at last one maxim.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Knowledge, Science, Self

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1850). “Nature: Addresses, and Lectures”, p.83

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• Meditate, oft. Separate thyself for a season from the cares of the world. Get close to nature and learn from the lowliest of that which manifests in nature, in the earth; in the birds, in the trees, in the grass, in the flowers, in the bees; that the life of each is a manifesting, is a song of glory to its Maker. And do thou likewise!

  Edgar Cayce

  Song, Flower, Meditation

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• To "know thyself" must mean to know the malignancy of one's own instincts and to know, as well, one's power to deflect it.

  Karl A. Menninger

  Mean, Instinct, Know Thyself

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• Let me advise thee not to talk of thyself as being old. There is something in Mind Cure, after all, and if thee continually talks of thyself as being old, thee may perhaps bring on some of the infirmities of age. At least I would not risk it if I were thee.

  Hannah Whitall Smith

  Risk, Mind, Age

  Hannah Whitall Smith (1950). “Philadelphia Quaker: the letters of Hannah Whitall Smith”

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• Physician, heal thyself.

  Luke the Evangelist

  Doctors, Medicine, Physicians

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• Every moment think steadily as a Roman and a man to do what thou hast in hand with perfect and simple dignity, and feeling of affection, and freedom, and justice; and to give thyself relief from all other thoughts. And thou wilt give thyself relief, if thou doest every act of thy life as if it were the last, laying aside all carelessness and passionate aversion from the commands of reason, and all hypocrisy, and self-love, and discontent with the portion which has been given to thee.

  Marcus Aurelius

  Simple, Men, Thinking

  馬可•奧里略 (Marcus Aurelius) (2014). “沉思錄:讀了一百年還要再讀一百年的不朽鉅著”, p.49, 德威國際文化

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• Read not books alone, but men, and amongst them chiefly thyself.

  Francis Quarles

  Book, Men, Distasteful

  Francis Quarles (1844). “Enchiridion Institutions, Essays and Maxims, political, moral & divine. Divided into four centuries. By Francis Quarles”, p.39

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• When Allah created the horse, he said to the wind, I will that a creature proceed from thee. Condense thyself.And the wind condensed itself, and the result was the horse.

  Marguerite Henry

  Horse, Wind, Results

  Marguerite Henry (2012). “King of the Wind”, p.17, Simon and Schuster

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• Owe no man any thing, but to love one another: for he that loveth another hath fulfilled the law. For this, Thou shalt not commit adultery, Thou shalt not kill, Thou shalt not steal, Thou shalt not bear false witness, Thou shalt not covet; and if there be any other commandment, it is briefly comprehended in this saying, namely, Thou shalt love thy neighbour as thyself.

  Paul the Apostle

  Men, Law, Bears

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• Praise thyself never.

  Seneca the Younger

  Modesty, Praise

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• The basis of world peace is the teaching which runs through almost all the great religions of the world. Love thy neighbor as thyself.

  Eleanor Roosevelt

  Love, Running, Peace

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• Act so as to elicit the best in others and thereby in thyself.

  Felix Adler

  Karma

  Felix Adler (1921). “The Standard”

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• Say not unto thyself, Behold, truth breedeth hatred, and I will avoid it; dissimulation raiseth friends, and I will follow it. Are not the enemies made by truth, better than the friends obtained by flattery?

  Akhenaton

  Friendship, Truth, Hatred

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• 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

  Character, Men, Rely Upon

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• Why seeketh thou revenge, O man! with what purpose is it that thou pursuest it? Thinkest thou to pain thine adversary by it? Know that thou thyself feelest its greatest torments.

  Akhenaton

  Pain, Revenge, Men

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• In many things it is not well to say, "Know thyself"; it is better to say, "Know others."

  Menander

  People, Know Thyself, Wells

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