Thyself Quotes - Page 7

• If thou be not busy for thyself now, who shall be busy for thee in time to come?

  Thomas a Kempis

  Work, Busy, Thee

  Thomas a Kempis (1913). “The Imitation of Christ”

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• A child's kiss Set on thy sighing lips shall make thee glad; A poor man served by thee shall make thee rich; A sick man helped by thee shall make thee strong; Thou shalt be served thyself by every sense Of service which thou renderest.

  Elizabeth Barrett Browning

  Strong, Children, Kissing

  Elizabeth Barrett Browning (1871). “The Poetical Works of”, p.71

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• The height of all philosophy is to know thyself; and the end of this knowledge is to know God.

  Francis Quarles

  Philosophy, Height, Know Thyself

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• The highest strength is acquired not in overcoming the world, but in overcoming one's self. Learn to be cruel to thyself, to withstand thy appetites, to bear thy sufferings, and thou shalt become free and able.

  John Lancaster Spalding

  Self, Suffering, Overcoming

  John Lancaster Spalding (1901). “Aphorisms and Reflections: Conduct, Culture and Religion”

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• The sum of religion, says Pythagoras, is to be like him thou worshipest. Had Pythagoras lived in our day he would have seen his mistake. The sum of modern religion is to make him thou worshipest like unto thyself.

  Ambrose Bierce

  Mistake, Modern

  Ambrose Bierce (1968). “The Ambrose Bierce satanic reader: selections from the invective journalism of the great satirist”

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• Thou movest us to delight in praising Thee; for Thou hast formed us for Thyself, and our hearts are restless till they find rest in Thee.

  Saint Augustine

  Heart, Delight, Praise

  "Confessions". Book by Saint Augustine (Book 1), www.huffingtonpost.com. 397-400 AD.

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• The truth is that we are a part of God. God could not have created anything except out of his own consciousness. We're all his dream, and our duty in life that God has assigned to us, that the universe has placed squarely in our laps, is to find out who we really are. "Gnothi seauton," as the Greeks used to say. "Know thyself." But to know thyself, if you trace it back, to the deeper and deeper levels, you discover that that self is not your body or your ego or your personality or your country or anything, that's just a sack of self-definitions that you carry around with you

  Goswami Kriyananda

  Dream, Country, Self

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• Be kind to all and severe to thyself.

  Teresa of Avila

  Be Kind, Kind, Severe

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• There cannot be self-restraint in the absence of desire: when there is no adversary, what avails thy courage? Hark, do not castrate thyself, do not become a monk: chastity depends on the existence of lust.

  Rumi

  Self, Lust, Desire

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• Help thyself, and God will help thee.

  George Herbert

  Helping, Thee, Gods Will

  George Herbert (1871). “The English Poems of George Herbert: Together with His Collection of Proverbs Entitled Jacula Prudentum”, p.239

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• In the morning fix thy good purpose; and at night examine thyself what thou hast done, how thou hast behaved thyself in word, deed, and thought.

  Thomas a Kempis

  Morning, Night, Purpose

  St. Augustine, Dr. Howard Taylor, Mrs. Howard Taylor, Apostolic Fathers, J. Oswald Sanders (2010). “Moody Classics Complete Set: Includes 19 Classics of the Faith in a Single Volume”, p.1550, Moody Publishers

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• Be thou good thyself, and let people speak evil of thee; it is better than to be wicked, and that they should consider thee as good.

  Saadi

  People, Evil, Gossip

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• Pride thyself on what virtue thou hast, and not on thy parentage.

  Saadi

  Pride, Ancestry, Virtue

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• Ifit be a thing external that causes thy grief, know, that it is not that properly that doth cause it, but thine own conceit and opinion concerning the thing: which thou mayest rid
  thyself of, when thou wilt.

  Marcus Aurelius

  Grief, Causes, Opinion

  Marcus Aurelius (2016). “Meditations (Diversion Classics)”, p.159, Diversion Books

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• If thou wouldst be implacable, be so with thyself.

  John Lancaster Spalding

  Ifs

  John Lancaster Spalding (1901). “Aphorisms and Reflections: Conduct, Culture and Religion”

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• Take special care that thou never trust any friend or servant with any matter that may endanger thine estate; for so shalt thou make thyself a bond-slave to him that thou trustest, and leave thyself always to his mercy.

  Walter Raleigh

  Trust, Caring, Special

  Sir Walter Raleigh (1829). “The Works of Sir Walter Ralegh, Kt: Miscellaneous works”, p.557

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• Let's have a merry journey, and shout about how light is good and dark is not. What we should do is not future ourselves so much. We should now ourselves. "Now thyself" is more important than "know thyself." Reason is what tells us to ignore the present and live in the future. So all we do is make plans. We think that somewhere there are going to be green pastures. It's crazy. Heaven is nothing but a grand, monumental instance of future. Listen, now is good. Now is wonderful.

  Mel Brooks

  Crazy, Future, Dark

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• The Declaration of Independence has established certain moral confines, and governs in a manner consistent with the spirit under which our nation was founded: Love God; love thy neighbor as thyself.

  Jeremiah Denton

  Independence, Spirit, Moral

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• Let not therefore thy heart be troubled, neither let it fear. Trust in me, and put thy confidence in my mercy. When thou thinkest thyself farthest off from me, oftentimes I am nearest unto thee. When thou countest almost all to be lost, then oftentimes the greatest gain of reward is close at hand. All is not lost, when any thing falleth out contrary. Thou oughtest not to judge according to present feeling; nor so to take any grief, or give thyself over to it.

  Thomas a Kempis

  Grief, Heart, Hands

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• If thou marry beauty, thou bindest thyself all thy life for that which, perchance, will neither last nor please thee one year.

  Walter Raleigh

  Beauty, Years, Lasts

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• Remind thyself, in the darkest moments, that every failure is only a step toward success, ... Your life will never be the same again.

  Og Mandino

  Steps, Moments

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• But make not more business necessary than is so; and rather lessen than augment work for thyself.

  William Penn

  Work

  William Penn (1782). “The Select Works of William Penn: In Five Volumes. ...”, p.178

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• A matter that becomes clear ceases to concern us.--What was that god thinking who counseled, "Know thyself!" Did he perhaps mean,"Cease to concern yourself! Become objective!"--And Socrates?--And "scientific men"?

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Mean, Men, Thinking

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• When two people become entangled, one person will conform to the energy of the other person. When one of them is a healer whose cells are vibrating at a higher level, the client's cells become entangled, and their energy is lifted. That's why that old saying, "physician heal thyself," is so important, even though most don't understand it: If the physician's energy is going to influence or, in scientific terms, "entrain" the patient's, the doctor's must be higher.

  Bruce H. Lipton

  Doctors, Cells, Two

  Source: www.huffingtonpost.com

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• Only relinquish all things into My hands: for I can work freely only as ye release Me by complete committal both of thyself and others. Even as was written of old: "Commit thy way unto the Lord: trust also in Him: and He shall bring it to pass". (Psalms 37:5) I will be thy sustaining strength; and My peace shall garrison thy mind. Only TRUST ME that all I do is done in love.

  Frances J Roberts

  Hands, Mind, Done

  Frances J. Roberts (1973). “Come Away My Beloved”

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