Thyself Quotes - Page 4

• Remember, that if thou marry for beauty, thou bindest thyself all thy life for that which, perchance, will never last nor please thee one year; and when thou hast it, it will be to thee of no price at all.

  Walter Raleigh

  Memories, Years, Desire

  "Choice Passages from the Writings and Letters of Sir Walter Raleigh: Being a Small Sheaf of Gleanings from a Golden Harvest".

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• O son, thou hast not true humility, The highest virtue, mother of them all; But her thou hast not know; for what is this? Thou thoughtest of thy prowess and thy sins Thou hast not lost thyself to save thyself.

  Alfred Lord Tennyson

  Mother, Humility, Son

  Alfred Lord Tennyson (1851). “The Poetical Works of Alfred Lord Tennyson”

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• Wherever...thou shalt be, pray secretly within thyself. If thou shalt be far from a house of prayer, give not thyself trouble to seek for one, for thou thyself art a sanctuary designed for prayer. If thou shalt be in bed, or in any other place, pray there; thy temple is there.

  Bernard of Clairvaux

  Christian, Art, Prayer

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• Rings and jewels are not gifts, but apologies for gifts. The only gift is a portion of thyself. Thou must bleed for me. Therefore the poet brings his poem; the shepherd, his lamb; the farmer, corn; the miner, a stone; the painter, his picture; the girl, a handkerchief of her own sewing.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Life, Positive, Girl

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (191?). “Society and solitude, Letters and social aims”

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• Knowing thyself is the height of wisdom.

  Socrates

  Knowing, Height

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• The aim of human life is to know thyself. Think for yourself. Question authority. Think with your friends. Create, create new realities. Philosophy is a team sport. Philosophy is the ultimate, the ultimate aphrodisiac pleasure. Learning how to operate your brain, learning how to operate your mind, learning how to redesign chaos

  Timothy Leary

  Sports, Philosophy, Team

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• All the great people say it was their destiny to be great. Know thyself-you have a destiny to be great. It's coded in your DNA/RNA. Meet thy greater self. Express thy higher self. Fulfill your real self.

  Mark Victor Hansen

  Real, Destiny, Dna

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• Disguise thyself as thou wilt, still, Slavery," said I, "still thou art a bitter draught.

  Laurence Sterne

  Art, Slavery, Bitterness

  Laurence Sterne, John Hall-Stevenson (1792). “A Sentimental Journey: Through France and Italy”, p.97

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• Content thyself to be obscurely good. When vice prevails, and impious men bear sway, the post of honoris a private station.

  Joseph Addison

  Men, Honor, Vices

  'Cato' (1713) act 4, sc. 1, l. 319

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• If unwilling to rise in the morning, say to thyself, 'I awake to do the work of a man.'

  Marcus Aurelius

  Morning, Men, Awake

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• The Ideal is in thyself, the impediments too is in thyself.

  Thomas Carlyle

  Psychology, Ideals, Impediments

  Thomas Carlyle, Rodger L. Tarr, Mark Engel (2000). “Sartor Resartus: The Life and Opinions of Herr Teufelsdröckh in Three Books”, p.145, Univ of California Press

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• Tear thyself from delay.

  Horace

  Procrastination, Tears, Delay

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• Happiness itself is sufficient excuse. Beautiful things are right and true; so beautiful actions are those pleasing to the gods. Wise men have an inward sense of what is beautiful, and the highest wisdom is to trust this intuition and be guided by it. The answer to the last appeal of what is right lies within a man's own breast. Trust thyself.

  Aristotle

  Beautiful, Wise, Lying

  Aristotle (2015). “The Aristotle Collection [50 Books]”, Catholic Way Publishing

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• Make two homes for thyself, my daughter. One actual home . . . and the other a spiritual home which thou are to carry with thee always.

  St. Catherine of Siena

  Faith, Daughter, Spiritual

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• I got up early and bathed in the pond; that was a religious exercise, and one of the best things which I did. They say that characters were engraven on the bathing tub of King Tching-thang to this effect: "Renew thyself completely each day; do it again, and again, and forever again."

  Henry David Thoreau

  Life, Religious, Kings

  Henry David Thoreau (1882). “Walden”, p.140

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• Love thy neighbor as thyself: Do not do to others what thou wouldst not wish be done to thyself: Forgive injuries. Forgive thy enemy, be reconciled to him, give him assistance, invoke God in his behalf.

  Confucius

  Love, Forgiveness, Spiritual

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• Beneficence is a duty. He who frequently practices it, and sees his benevolent intentions realized, at length comes really to love him to whom he has done good. When, therefore, it is said, "Thou shalt love thy neighbor as thyself," it is not meant, thou shalt love him first and do him good in consequence of that love, but, thou shalt do good to thy neighbor; and this thy beneficence will engender in thee that love to mankind which is the fulness and consummation of the inclination to do good.

  Immanuel Kant

  Practice, Done, Charity

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• It is past all question, and agreed on by all sides, that no religion will save a man who is not serious, sincere, and diligent in it. If thou be of the truest religion in the world, and are not true thyself to that religion, the religion is good, but it is none of thine.

  Richard Baxter

  Men, Past, World

  Richard Baxter, William Orme (1830). “The Practical Works of the Rev. Richard Baxter: With a Life of the Author, and a Critical Examination of His Writings”, p.476

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• By faith ponder on this, that though thou art no way able in or by thyself to get the conquest over thy distemper, though thou art even weary of contending, and art utterly ready to faint, yet that there is enough in Jesus Christ to yield thee relief.

  John Owen

  Jesus, Art, Yield

  John Owen (2001). “Temptation and Sin”, p.79, Sovereign Grace Publishers,

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• Son of Heav'n and Earth, Attend: that thou art happy, owe to God; That thou continuest such, owe to thyself, That is, to thy obedience; therein stand.

  John Milton

  Happiness, Art, Son

  John Milton, James BUCHANAN (Grammarian.) (1773). “The First Six Books of Milton's Paradise Lost, Rendered Into Grammatical Construction ... With Notes ... To which are Prefixed Remarks on Ellipsis and Transposition ... By J. Buchanan”, p.351

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• Up then, fair phoenix bride, frustrate the sun; Thyself from thine affection Takest warmth enough, and from thine eye All lesser birds will take their jollity. Up, up, fair bride, and call Thy stars from out their several boxes, take Thy rubies, pearls, and diamonds forth, and make Thyself a constellation of them all; And by their blazing signify That a great princess falls, but doth not die. Be thou a new star, that to us portends Ends of much wonder; and be thou those ends.

  John Donne

  Stars, Princess, Fall

  John Donne (1993). “Selected Poems”, p.40, Courier Corporation

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• If thou wouldst seek justice, thyself must be just.

  Stephen R. Lawhead

  Inspirational, Teacher, Justice

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• Only by knowledge of that which is not thyself, shall thyself be learned.

  Robert Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Earl of Lytton

  Knowledge

  "The Poetical Works of Owen Meredith, Volume 1 (Know Thyself)". Book by Robert Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Earl of Lytton, 1867.

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• ‎"Begin the morning by saying to thyself, I shall meet with the busy-body, the ungrateful, arrogant, deceitful, envious, unsocial

  Marcus Aurelius

  Morning, Ungrateful, Arrogant

  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.24, Enhanced Media Publishing

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• Give thyself time to learn something new and good, and cease to be whirled around.

  Marcus Aurelius

  Life, Time, 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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