You are a semi-genius. Well, sort of. The collective knowledge of the world seems to have somehow fallen at your feet. You know who starred opposite Clark Gable in It Happened One Night. You know the names of all seven dwarves. You know who to spell the word “percolate.” You even know the capitals of all 50 states, except Delaware and Maine. Yet, despite all the things you know, there are still those who give you too little credit for knowing yourself.

Make yourself a better person and know who you are before you try and know someone else and expect them to know you. -Unknown

Sometimes in your life, you will go on a journey. It will be the longest journey you have ever taken. It is the journey to find yourself. -Unknown

There are many people who have the gift, or failing, of never understanding themselves. I have been unlucky enough, or perhaps fortunate enough to have received the opposite gift. -Charles de Talleyrand

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I would rather die of thirst than drink from the cup of mediocrity.
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A man can't deny what he is. He can convince everybody else he is someone else, but never himself.

"This above all; to thine own self be true." -William Shakespeare

"I know nothing except the fact of my own ignorance."

--Socrates (469-399BC)

"In the case of nutrition and health, just as in the case of education, the gentleman in Whitehall really does know better what is good for people than the people know themselves."

--Douglas Jay (1907-96) The Socialist Case

"Know then thyself, presume not God to scan;
The proper study of mankind is man."

--Alexander Pope (1688-1744)

"You know more than you think you know you do."

--Benjamin Spock (1903-98) Common Sense Book of Baby and Child Care

best wishes,
Hope {Grant}

I found your picture today
I swear I'll change my ways
I just called to say I want you to come back home
I just called to say, I love you come back home (Sheryl Crow and Kid Rock)

Stella Splendens
December 22, 1985 - March 27, 2003
RIP

Know thyself! A maxim as pernicious as it is ugly. Whoever observes himself arrests his own development. A caterpillar who wanted to know itself well would never become a butterfly.
~Andre Gide~

Know thyself? If I knew myself, I'd run away.
~Johann Wolfgang von Goethe~

Life is short. Time is fleeting. Realise the Self. Purity of the heart is the gateway to God. Aspire. Renounce. Meditate. Be good; do good. Be kind; be compassionate. Inquire, know Thyself.
~William Hazlitt~

"Do all things with love." Og Mandino

"He who knows others is wise.
He who knows himself is enlightened."

~ Lao Tzu

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"For all it's discomfort, there is still a wonderful entertainment to be had from the war with balance."
-Timothy Findley

Know Thyself and Thou shalt know the universe and the gods.
-- Inscription of the Temple of Delphi.

One of the most important precepts of wisdom is to know oneself.
-- Socrates.

The sage knows himself.
-- Lao Tse.

All men participate in the possibility of self knowledge.
-- Heraclitus.

Let the man in whom there is intelligence... know himself.
-- Hermes

Let each contemplate himself, not shut up in narrow walls, not cabined in the corner of the earth, but a citizen of the whole world. From the height of the sublime meditations which the spectacle of Nature and the knowledge of it will procure for him, how well will he know himself! how he will disdain, how base he will find all the futilities to which the vulgar attach so high a price.
-- Cicero

When one says to a man, "Know Thyself", it is not to lower his pride, but to make him sensible of his own value.
-- Cicero

Ignorance of oneself is then an evil in all respects, whether ignoring the greatness and dignity of the inner man one lower's one's divine principle or ignoring the natural baseness of the external man one commits the fault of glorifying oneself.
-- Pophyry

How can the soul which misunderstands itself have a sure idea of other creatures?
-- Seneca

This mental being in the inner heart who has the truth and the light is the lord and sovereign of all; he who knows it, governs all this that is.
-- Brihadaranyaka Upanishad.

The gretaest science is the knowledge of oneself. He who knows himself, knows God.
-- St. Clement of Alexandria.

As by knowing one piece of clay one knows all that is of clay, as by knowing one instrument of steel one knows all that is of steel, even so is the order of this knowledge.
-- Chandogya Upanishad.

That is the bright light of all lights which they know who know themselves.
-- Mundaka Upanishad.

Know thyself, sound the divinity.
-- Epitectus.

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much love, light and laughter,
ananya.

First find the man in yourself if you will inspire manliness in others.
-- Amos Bronson Alcott

If most of us remain ignorant of ourselves, it is because self-knowledge is painful and we prefer the pleasures of illusion.
-- Aldous Huxley

There is nothing like returning to a place that remains unchanged to find the ways in which you yourself have altered.
-- Nelson Mandela

Life isn't about finding yourself. Life is about creating yourself.
-- George Bernard Shaw

Some people say they haven't yet found themselves. But the self is not something one finds; it is something one creates.
-- Thomas Szasz

I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately, to front only the essential facts of life, and see if I could not learn what it had to teach, and not, when I came to die, discover that I had not lived.
-- Henry David Thoreau

"Know Thyself" was written over the portal of the antique world. Over the portal of the new world, "Be Thyself" shall be written.
-- Oscar Wilde

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much love, light and laughter,
Ananya.

“So what do we do? Anything. Something. So long as we just don’t sit there.
If we screw it up, start over. Try something else.
If we wait until we’ve satisfied all the uncertainties, it may be too late.”
~ Lee Iacocca

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