Top 100 Thyself'as Quotes
#1. 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.
Meister Eckhart
#2. For self is the lord of self, self is the refuge of self; therefore curb thyself as the merchant curbs a good horse.
Max Muller
#3. The starting-point of critical elaboration is the consciousness of what one really is, and is 'knowing thyself'as a product of the historical processes to date, which has deposited in you an infinity of traces, without leaving an inventory.
Antonio Gramsci
#4. Think of thyself as a stranger and traveler on the earth, to whom none of the many affairs of this world belong and who has no permanent township on the globe.
Claire Clairmont
#5. Let me advise thee not to talk of thyself as being old. There is something in Mind Cure, after all, and if thee continually talks of thyself as being old, thee may perhaps bring on some of the infirmities of age. At least I would not risk it if I were thee.
Hannah Whitall Smith
#6. Know thyself as the pride of His creation, the link uniting divinity and matter; behold a part of God Himself within thee; remember thine own dignity nor dare descend to evil or meanness.
Akhenaton
#7. Disguise thyself as thou wilt, still, Slavery," said I, "still thou art a bitter draught.
Laurence Sterne
#8. Be so true to thyself, as thou be not false to others.
Francis Bacon
#9. Why wilt thou be so sottish, such an enemy to thyself, as to prefer puddle-water, and that poisoned too and stolen, before pure living waters out of thy own well?
Matthew Henry
#10. Thus thou must use to keep thyself to the first motions and apprehensions of things, as they present themselves outwardly; and add not unto them from within thyself through mere conceit and opinion.
Marcus Aurelius
#11. The first and second commandments are the only therapy the world has ever needed. "Thou shalt love the Lord thy God with all thy heart, and with all thy soul, and with all thy mind ... Thou shalt love thy neighbor as thyself" [Matthew 22:37, 39 KJV].
Billy Graham
#13. Now slides the silent meteor on, and leaves a shining furrow, as thy thoughts in me.
Now folds the lily all her sweetness up,
and slips into the bosom of the lake:
So fold thyself, my dearest, thou, and slip into my bosom and be lost in me.
Alfred Tennyson
#14. I hate organized religion. I think you have to love thy neighbor as thyself. I think you have to pick your own God and be true to him. I always say 'him' rather than 'her.' Maybe it's because of my generation, but I don't like the idea of a female God. I see God as a benevolent male.
Julia Child
#15. The first principle from which stems the moral of about all people at all time; it is summarized in this precept: Love thy neighbour as thyself, and: do as you would be done by.
African Spir
#16. (68) NOW, whenever thou meet such as indulge in [blasphemous] talk about Our messages, turn thy back upon them until they begin to talk of other things;821 and if Satan should ever cause thee to forget [thyself], remain not, after recollection, in the company of such evildoing folk,
Anonymous
#17. Conquer thyself, till thou has done this, thou art but a slave; for it is almost as well to be subjected to another's appetite as to thine own.
Richard Francis Burton
#18. With patient course thy path of duty run;
God nothing does, nor suffers to be done,
What thou wouldst do thyself, couldst thou but see;
The end of all events as well as He.
Marshall Broomhall
#19. Anti-theses.- The most senile thing ever thought about man is contained in the celebrated saying 'the ego is always hateful'; the most childish is the even more celebrated 'love thy neighbor as thyself'. - In the former, knowledge of human nature has ceased, in the latter it has not yet even begun.
Friedrich Nietzsche
#20. Our instrumental part in the symphony of life is to allow love to create a space within our own awareness, through which the undreamed mystery may emerge as a knowable reality.
Eric Micha'el Leventhal
#21. Know thyself. A maxim as pernicious as it is ugly. Whoever studies himself arrest his own development. A caterpillar who seeks to know himself would never become a butterfly.
Andre Gide
#22. Love thy neighbor as thyself. Unless he calls you names. Then do not love him, run in the opposite direction and throw a gerbil at his door.
Coco J. Ginger
#23. Thou shalt love thy neighbor as thyself. Why? Because every human being has a root in the Unity, and to reject the minutest particle of the Unity is to reject it all.
Baal Shem Tov
#24. I am puzzled by people today who, after moralizing about the need for cooperation and goodwill and love-thy-neighbor-as-thyself, suddenly invoke the most primitive, barbarous motivations for any kind of progress.
Murray Bookchin
#25. To you, Fell. Can't you feel it? Inside you, as it lies inside all the Lera. Know thyself, wolf.
David Clement-Davies
#26. Remind thyself that he whom thou lovest is mortal - that what
thou lovest is not thine own; it is given thee for the present, not
irrevocably nor for ever, but even as a fig or a bunch of grapes at
the appointed season of the year
Epictetus
#27. We are in this life as it were in another man's house ... In heaven is our home, in the world is our Inn: do not so entertain thyself in the Inn of this world for a day as to have thy mind withdrawn from longing after thy heavenly home.
Gerhard
#28. 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
#29. (The French psychoanalyst Lacan suggested that the Christian injunction 'love thy neighbour as thyself' must be ironic because people hate themselves.)
Adam Phillips
#30. And thou wilt give thyself relief if thou doest every act of thy life as if it were the last, laying aside all carelessness and passionate aversion from the commands of reason, and all hypocrisy, and self-love, and discontent with the portion which has been given to thee.
Marcus Aurelius
#31. 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
#32. 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
#33. All men are frail; but thou shouldst reckon none so frail as thyself.
Thomas A Kempis
#34. In the commission of evil, fear no man so much as thyself; another is but one witness against thee, thou art a thousand; another thou mayest avoid, thyself thou canst not. Wickedness is its own punishment.
Francis Quarles
#35. What good is "Loving thy neighbor as thyself" if you don't Love thyself?
Donald L. Hicks
#36. Know that the fault ye find in others is a reflection of a fault in thyself. Be to others just as you would have others be to thee, and ye will remove much of that.
Edgar Cayce
#37. 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.
Herman Melville
#38. 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
#40. 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
#41. My mistress had taught me the precepts of God's Word: "Thou shalt love thy neighbor as thyself." "Whatsoever ye would that men should do unto you, do ye even so unto them.
Harriet Jacobs
#42. School-boy. The spectators thou regardest as on work-days they regard each other. For thee, then, it may be well to wish thyself behind a desk, over ruled ledgers, collecting tolls, and picking out reversions. Thou feelest not the co-operating, co-inspiring
Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
#43. If thou canst not make thyself such an one as thou wouldst, how canst thou expect to have another in all things to thy liking?
Thomas A Kempis
#44. Thyself shall see the act; For, as thou urgest justice, be assured Thou shalt have justice, more than thou desir'st.
William Shakespeare
#45. The neurotic usually obeys his own Golden Rule: Hate thy neighbor as thyself.
Mignon McLaughlin
#46. Though thou loved her as thyself,
As a self of purer clay,
Tho' her parting dims the day,
Stealing grace from all alive,
Heartily know,
When half-gods go,
The gods arrive.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
#47. Righteousness alone can exalt America as a nation. Whoever thou art, remember this; and in thy sphere practice virtue thyself, and encourage it in others.
Patrick Henry
#48. Empathy is born out of the old biblical injunction 'Love the neighbor as thyself.'
George McGovern
#49. This is servitude, To serve th'unwise, or him who hath rebelled Against his worthier, as thine now serve thee, Thyself not free, but to thyself enthralled.
John Milton
#50. Sometimes thou seem'st not as thyself alone, But as the meaning of all things that are.
Dante Gabriel Rossetti
#51. 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.
Fyodor Dostoevsky
#52. Active, successful natures act, not according to the maxim, "know thyself," but as if prompted by the commandment: will a self, and so become a self.
Friedrich Nietzsche
#53. Act so as to elicit the best in others and thereby in thyself.
Felix Adler
#54. Faith is belief without evidence, which we blindly pursue as the truth.
Gian Kumar
#56. Do not judge others, without first judging yourself. There is no strength without knowing thyself.
Luis Marques
#58. Let not thy peace depend on the tongues of men; for whether they judge well of thee or ill, thou art not on that account other than thyself. Where are true peace and true glory? Are they not in God? And he that careth not to please men, nor feareth to displease them, shall enjoy much peace.
Charles Haddon Spurgeon
#59. Then let thy love be younger than thyself, Or thy affection cannot hold the bent.
William Shakespeare
#60. If Christ were born in Bethlehem a thousand times and not in thee thyself; then art thou lost eternally.
Angelus Silesius
#61. Stranger, pause and ask thyself the question, Canst thou do likewise? If not, with a blush retire.
Charles Dickens
#63. Thou art but a feeble flower in the garden of the universe, yet thou hath a purpose much greater than thyself.
Raneem Kayyali
#64. Do what nature now requires. Set thyself in motion, if it is in thy power, and do not look about thee to see if any one will observe it; nor yet expect Plato's Republic: but be content if the smallest thing goes on well, and consider such an event to be no small matter.
Marcus Aurelius
#65. 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
#67. There is one plain rule of life. Try thyself unweariedly till thou findest the highest thing thou art capable of doing, faculties and outward circumstances being both duly considered, and then do it.
John Stuart Mill
#68. Care-charming Sleep, thou easer of all woes, brother to Death, sweetly thyself dispose.
John Fletcher
#69. Treat others as thou wouldst be treated. What thou likest not for thyself, dispense not to others.
Khwaja Abdullah Ansari
#70. Now thyself is more important than Know thyself.
Mel Brooks
#71. The most important knowledge is understanding what you can't do.
Bill Buford
#72. The body is the house of God. That is why it is said "Man know thyself".
Unknown
#73. of light and life, thou Good Supreme! O teach me what is good; teach me Thyself! Save me from folly, vanity, and vice, From every low pursuit; and fill my soul With knowledge, conscious peace, and virtue pure; Sacred, substantial, never-fading bliss!
Benjamin Franklin
#74. Neither praise nor dispraise thy selfe, thy actins serve the turne.
[Neither praise nor dispraise thyself; thy actions serve the turn.]
George Herbert
#75. I would have no desire other than to accomplish thy will. Teach me to pray; pray thyself in me.
Francois Fenelon
#76. This serpent, SATAN, is not the enemy of Man, but He who made Gods of our race, knowing Good and Evil; He bade 'Know Thyself!' and taught Initiation.
Aleister Crowley
#78. Yes, helping the poor helps keep them stuck in poverty. As Jesus said, 'Tough love thy neighbor as thyself, get your own loaves and fishes.'
Stephen Colbert
Stephen Colbert
#79. The second of our Lord's two great commandments carries a double charge: 'Thou shalt love thy neighbour as thyself' (Matt. 22:39). Therefore, love of companion is governed, in part, by esteem of self.
Russell M. Nelson
#80. To "know thyself" must mean to know the malignancy of one's own instincts and to know, as well, one's power to deflect it.
Karl A. Menninger
#82. The big, blazing truth about man is that he has a heaven-sized hole in his heart, and nothing else can fill it. We pass our lives trying to fill the Grand Canyon with marbles. As Augustine said: Thou hast made us for Thyself, and our hearts are restless until they rest in Thee.
Peter Kreeft
#83. The way to embody love completely is to see and appreciate life just as it is, and not as you believe, fear, or desire it to be.
Eric Micha'el Leventhal
#85. Know thy neighbor as thyself. That is, comprehend his hardships and understand his position, deal with his faults as gently as with your own. Do not judge him where you do not judge yourself...this is the meaning of the word LOVE.
Pearl S. Buck
#86. Seek to know thyself by means of thyself, keeping thy mind, intellect and senses, under control; for self is thy friend as it is also thy foe.
Anonymous
#87. Even the humblest mammal's strong sexual, parental, and social instincts give rise to 'do unto others as yourself' and 'love thy neighbor as thyself'.
Charles Darwin
#88. By showing him so much respect, Thou didst, as it were, cease to feel for him, for Thou didst ask far too much from Him
Thou who has loved him more than Thyself! Respecting him less, Thou wouldst have asked less of him. That would have been more like love, for his burden would have been lighter.
Fyodor Dostoyevsky
#89. Conduct thyself always with the same prudence as though thou went observed by ten eyes and pointed at by ten fingers
Confucius
#91. Sometimes, perhaps, thou hearest another pray with much freedom and fluency, whilst thou canst hardly get out a few broken words. Hence thou art ready to accuse thyself and admire him, as if the gilding of the key made it open the door the better.
William Gurnall
#92. Love thy neighbor as thyself because you are your neighbor. It is illusion that makes you think that your neighbor is someone other than yourself.
Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan
#93. It is a pleasurable thing to earn the admiration of others, but it is a far better feeling to honestly admire thyself.
Richelle E. Goodrich
#94. Do not that to another, which thou wouldst not have done to thyself.
Thomas Hobbes
#96. Well, that's that. Goodbye cruel world. Be sure to fuck thyself on the way out, you mean-assed son of a whore.
Belle Aurora
#97. Shall I tell you our secret? We are charming thieves who steal hearts and never fail because we are the friends of the One.
Blessed is the poem that comes through me but not of me because the sound of my own music will drown the song of Love.
Rumi
#98. Resolve to be thyself; and know, that he who finds himself, loses his misery.
Matthew Arnold
#99. There were none so scornful as those who had had to learn the hard way.
Elizabeth Bear
#100. Some choices we make for people around and some decisions we take for thyself!
Rachana Shakyawar
