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“It is permissible to take life's blessings with both hands provided thou dost know thyself prepared in the opposite event to take them just as gladly. This applies to food and friends and kindred, to anything God gives and takes away... As long as God is satisfied do thou rest content. If he is pleased to want something else of thee, still rest content.”

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Author:Meister Eckhart
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“Intercourse is after all man's best teacher. "Know thyself" is an excellent maxim; but even self-knowledge cannot be perfected in closets and cloisters--nor amid lake scenery, and on the sunny side of the mountains. Men who seldom mix with their fellow-creatures are almost sure to be one-sided--the victims of fixed ideas, that sometimes lead to insanity.”

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Author:William Matthews
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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.”

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Author:Mel Brooks
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“People travel to wonder at the height of mountains, at the huge waves of the sea, at the long courses of rivers, at the vast compass of the ocean, at the circular motion of the stars; and they pass by themselves without wondering.”

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Author:Saint Augustine
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“There is only one corner of the universe you can be certain of improving, and that's your own self.”

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Author:Aldous Huxley
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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”

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Author:Goswami Kriyananda
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“Anything an artist does is to show ourselves as we really are, which is a complex thing. I don't think that one work of Philosophy or Art, or Letters, or Acting, or Middle Playing, or Tightrope Walking, or Flea Circuses has made mankind better, if by better you mean kinder, wiser, more tolerant of each other. One thing self knowledge. Knoticayton: know thyself.”

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Author:Peter O'Toole
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“It's a helluva start, being able to recognize what makes you happy.”

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Author:Lucille Ball
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“Just when I think I have learned the way to live, life changes.”

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Book:Notes to Myself: My Struggle to Become a Person
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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.”

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Book:Being Perfect
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“To thine own self be true, and it must follow, as the night the day, thou canst not then be false to any man.”

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Author:William Shakespeare
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“People often say that this or that person has not yet found himself. But the self is not something one finds, it is something one creates.”

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Book:Words to the Wise: A Medical-Philosophical Dictionary
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“Man is least himself when he talks in his own person. Give him a mask, and he will tell you the truth.”

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Author:Oscar Wilde
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“Knowing yourself is the beginning of all wisdom.”

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Author:Aristotle
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“We read books to find out who we are. What other people, real or imaginary, do and think and feel... is an essential guide to our understanding of what we ourselves are and may become.”

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Book:The Language of the Night: Essays on Fantasy and Science Fiction
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“I can teach anybody how to get what they want out of life. The problem is that I can't find anybody who can tell me what they want.”

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Book:Mark Twain on Common Sense: Timeless Advice and Words of Wisdom from America's Most-Revered Humorist
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“Give him a mask, and he will tell you the truth.”

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Author:Oscar Wilde
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