#thyself

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

— Marcus Aurelius

#every #give #last #life #relief

Resolve to be thyself: and know that he who finds himself, loses his misery. ↗

— Matthew Arnold

#himself #his #know #loses #misery

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

— Saint Augustine

#hast #heart #our #quiet #rests

Everybody who flashed the signs of loyalty he took to be loyal. Everybody who flashed the signs of intelligence he took to be intelligent. And so he had failed to see into his daughter, failed to see into his wife, failed to see into his one and only mistress—probably had never even begun to see into himself ↗

— Philip Roth

#intelligence #know-thyself #loyalty #social-intelligence #intelligence

Yet the Narrator’s quest is not only for his own identity and vocation. He seeks an understanding of art, sexuality and worldly and political affairs: he is a snoop and a voyeur; he comments and classifies; his taxonomic impulse makes the novel appear to be a vast compendium, replete with burrowing wasps and bedsteads, military strategies, stereoscopes, asparagus and aeroplanes. ↗

— Adam A. Watt

#gnothi-seauton #know-thyself #knowledge #proust #art

If thou suffer injustice, console thyself; the true unhappiness is in doing it. ↗

— Democritus

#doing #injustice #suffer #thou #thyself

Know thyself? If I knew myself I would run away. ↗

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

#i #knew #know #know thyself #myself

Compare not thyself with those that have less than thyself, but look on those that have far exceeded thee. ↗

— William Gurnall

#exceeded #far #less #look #than

Be able to be alone. Lose not the advantage of solitude, and the society of thyself. ↗