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• Be charitable and indulge to everyone, but thyself.

  Joseph Joubert

  Indulge In, Charity, Charitable

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

  Marcus Aurelius

  Life, Philosophical, Giving

  Epictetus, Marcus Aurelius, Lucius Annaeus Seneca (2016). “Stoic Six Pack: Meditations of Marcus Aurelius, Golden Sayings, Fragments and Discourses of Epictetus, Letters from a Stoic and The Enchiridion”, p.25, Enhanced Media Publishing

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• The greatest explorer on this earth never takes voyages as long as those of the man who descends to the depth of his heart.

  Julien Green

  Heart, Men, Discovery

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• 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

  Imperfection, Despair, Rooms

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• Find fault with thyself rather than with others.

  Ieyasu Tokugawa

  Faults

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• Trust thyself: every heart vibrates to that iron string.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Trust, Heart, Iron

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1969). “Journals and Miscellaneous Notebooks of Ralph Waldo Emerson, Volume VII: 1838-1842”, p.297, Harvard University Press

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• Observe constantly that all things take place by change, and accustom thyself to consider that the nature of the Universe loves nothing so much as to change the things which are, and to make new things like them.

  Marcus Aurelius

  Love, Inspirational, Change

  Marcus Aurelius, Epictetus, Lucius Annaeus Seneca (2015). “Stoic Six Pack: Meditations of Marcus Aurelius The Golden Sayings Fragments and Discourses of Epictetus Letters from a Stoic and The Enchiridion”, p.20, Lulu.com

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• The greatest gift is a portion of thyself.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Teacher, Appreciation, Teaching

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• Transform reason into ordered intuition; let all thyself be light. This is thy goal.

  Sri Aurobindo

  Light, Goal, Intuition

  Sri Aurobindo International Centre of Education (Pondicherry, India), Aurobindo Ghose (1988). “Bulletin Du Centre International D'éducation Sri Aurobindo”

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• If thou art master to thyself, circumstances shall harm thee little.

  Martin Farquhar Tupper

  Art, Littles, Awareness

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• Learn to see it in thyself and thou wilt understand the infinite essence, hidden in all illusory forms. Understand that the world which thou knowest is only one of the aspects of the infinite world, and things and phenomena are merely hierolgyphics of deeper ideas.

  P.D. Ouspensky

  Essence, Ideas, World

  P. D. Ouspensky (1913). “The Symbolism of the Tarot: Philosophy of Occultism in Pictures and Numbers”, p.28, Courier Corporation

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• Man know thyself; then thou shalt know the Universe and God.

  Pythagoras

  Men, Know Thyself, Knows

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  No one can make you feel inferior without your consent.

  Eleanor Roosevelt

  Inspirational, Motivational, Happiness

  Quoted in Vidette-Messenger (Valparaiso, Ind.), 7 June 1941 See Channing 1

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• A caterpillar who seeks to know himself would never become a butterfly

  Andre Gide

  Butterfly, Know Thyself, Caterpillars

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• The proper study of Mankind is Man.

  Alexander Pope

  Men, Occupy Yourself, Literature

  An Essay on Man Epistle 2, l. 1 (1733) See Charron 1

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• The thing that is really hard, and really amazing, is giving up on being perfect and beginning the work of becoming yourself.

  Anna Quindlen

  Confidence, Letting Go, Being Yourself

  Anna Quindlen (2009). “Being Perfect”, p.15, Random House

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• Not until we are lost do we begin to understand ourselves.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Wisdom, Travel, Character

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• We will discover the nature of our particular genius when we stop trying to conform to our own or other people's models, learn to be ourselves, and allow our natural channel to open.

  Shakti Gawain

  Motivational, Nature, Self Esteem

  Shakti Gawain (2011). “Living in the Light, 25th Anniversary Edition: Follow Your Inner Guidance to Create a New Life and a New World”, p.37, New World Library

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• In the Heart's cavity, the sole Brahman as an ever-persisting 'I' shines direct in the form of the Self. Into the Heart enter thyself, with mind in search or in deeper plunge. Or by
  restraint of life-movement be firmly poised in the Self.

  Ramana Maharshi

  Heart, Self, Shining

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• Look well into thyself; there is a source of strength which will always spring up if thou wilt always look.

  Marcus Aurelius

  Strength, Spring, Emotional

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• Eat to please thyself, but dress to please others.

  Benjamin Franklin

  Liberty, Dresses, Thrive

  Benjamin Franklin (2007). “Poor Richard's Almanack”, p.53, Skyhorse Publishing, Inc.

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• When about to commit a base deed, respect thyself, though there is no witness.

  Decimius Magnus Ausonius

  Character, Honor, Deeds

  "Septem Sapientum Sententiæ Septenis Veribus Explicatæ". "Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations" by Jehiel Keeler Hoyt, 1922.

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

  Democritus

  Suffering, Injustice, Unhappiness

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• Who had deceived thee so often as thyself?

  Benjamin Franklin

  Deception, Thee, Deceived

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• Search others for their virtues, thyself for thy vices.

  Benjamin Franklin

  Wise, Wisdom, 4th Of July

  Benjamin Franklin (1998). “Benjamin Franklin Wit and Wisdom”, p.12, Peter Pauper Press, Inc.

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