Thyself Quotes

Thou hast created us for Thyself, and our heart is not quiet until it rests in Thee.

Love thyself, so that you can love another. Love thyself so that you cannot project fear. Love thyself so as to let others love you. Love thyself so as to let people near.

Who had deceived thee so often as thyself?

The neurotic usually obeys his own Golden Rule: Hate thy neighbor as thyself.

Bring thyself to account each day ere thou art summoned to a reckoning; for death, unheralded, shall come upon thee and thou shalt be called to give account for thy deeds.

If thy words are wise, they will not seem so to the foolish: if they are deep the shallow will not appreciate them. Think not highly of thyself, then, when thou art praised by many.

Care-charming Sleep, thou easer of all woes, brother to Death, sweetly thyself dispose.

Almighty Power, by whose most wise command, helpless, forlorn, uncertain, here I stand, take this faint glimmer of thyself away, or break into my soul with perfect day!

We are surrounded by abysses, but the greatest of all depths is in our own heart, and an irresistible leaning leads us there. Draw thyself from thyself!

Tear thyself from delay.

So peaceful shalt thou end thy blissful days, And steal thyself from life by slow decays.

Give not thyself up, then, to fire, lest it invert thee, deaden thee, as for the time it did me. There is a wisdom that is woe; but there is a woe that is madness.

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

Envy not greatness: for thou mak'st thereby Thyself the worse, and so the distance greater.

In solitude, be a multitude to thyself.

Neither praise nor dispraise thy selfe, thy actins serve the turne. [Neither praise nor dispraise thyself; thy actions serve the turn.]

And it is so simple... The one thing is - love thy neighbor as thyself - that is the one thing. That is all, nothing else is needed. You will instantly find how to live.

Physician, heal thyself. Teacher, teach yourself.

Know thyself. Accept thyself. Love thyself. No matter what you have done, where you have been, know, accept, and love who you are.

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

Absolve me, teach me, purify me, strengthen me: take me to Thyself, that I may be Thine and Thine only.

Stranger, pause and ask thyself the question, Canst thou do likewise? If not, with a blush retire.

Eat to please thyself, but dress to please others.

Search others for their virtues, thyself for thy vices.

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

Forgive thyself little, and others much.

Please not thyself the flattering crowd to hear; 'Tis fulsome stuff, to please thy itching ear. Survey thy soul, not what thou does appear, But what thou art.

If thou wouldst find much favor and peace with God and man, be very low in thine own eyes; forgive thyself little, and others much.

Everything that thou reprovest in another, thou must most carefully avoid in thyself. [Lat., Omnia quae vindicaris in altero, tibi ipsi vehementer fugienda sunt.]

Do not plunge thyself too far in anger.

To maintain an opinion because it is thine, and not because it is true, is to prefer thyself above the truth.

Pardon others often, thyself never.

Righteousness alone can exalt them [America] as a nation. Reader! Whoever thou art, remember this, and in thy sphere practice virtue thyself and encourage it in others.

Know thyself means this, that you get acquainted with what you know, and what you can do.

Let God operate in thee; Hand the work over to Him and do not disquiet thyself as to whether or no He is working with nature or above nature, for His are both nature and grace.

The only gift is a portion of thyself . . . the poet brings his poem; the shepherd his lamb. . . .

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

Thyself shall see the act; For, as thou urgest justice, be assured Thou shalt have justice, more than thou desir'st.

Self-awareness is not self-centeredness, and spirituality is not narcissism. 'Know thyself' is not a narcissistic pursuit.

Then let thy love be younger than thyself, Or thy affection cannot hold the bent.

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

Neither in writing nor in reading wilt thou be able to lay down rules for others before thou shalt have first learned to obey rules thyself.

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

The best way of avenging thyself is not to become like the wrong-doer.

Content not thyself that thou art virtuous in the general; for one link being wanting, the chain is defective.

You need to know things the others don't know. It's what no one knows about you that allows you to know yourself.

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

Content thyself to be obscurely good.

Be conscious first of thyself within, then think and act.

In solitude, be a multitude to thyself. Tibullus by all means use sometimes to be alone.