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  I knew what my job was; it was to go out and meet the people and love them.

  Princess Diana

  Topics in Job, Love

  Tags in People, Self-Knowledge

• Ambition is best tempered with self-knowledge!

  William Hague

  Topics in Ambition

  Tags in Tempered, Self-Knowledge

• The greatest barrier to self-discovery is our desire to discover ourselves different from what we are.

  Shraga Silverstein

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Self-Knowledge

• Some assume that they want to go somewhere simply because they are being pulled there.

  Shraga Silverstein

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• Many of our difficulties arise from our acting on the basis, not of what we are, but of what we were.

  Shraga Silverstein

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• Many are averse to the revelation of unsuspected resources within themselves because of the discomfort it engenders over their having lain waste for so long.

  Shraga Silverstein

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  Tags in Self-Knowledge

• We must be sensitive to how we have felt, how we feel, and how we will feel.

  Shraga Silverstein

  Topics in Uncategorized

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• In other living creatures the ignorance of themselves is nature, but in men it is a vice.

  Anicius Manlius Severinus Boëthius

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• He knows the universe and does not know himself.

  Jean de La Fontaine

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• We’re constantly being told what other people think we are, and that’s why it is so important to know yourself.

  Sarah McLachlan

  Topics in Inspirational

  Tags in Self-Knowledge

• I am afraid to show you who I really am, because if I show you who I really am, you might not like it–and that’s all I got.

  Sabrina Ward Harrison

  Topics in Confidence, Fear, Life, Truth

  Tags in Solitude, Self-Knowledge, Self-Esteem

• To know oneself is to study oneself in action with another person.

  Bruce Lee

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Death And Dying, Self-Knowledge, Athlete, Action, Study

• In a drama of the highest order there is little food for censure or hatred; it teaches rather self-knowledge and self-respect.

  Percy Bysshe Shelley

  Topics in Knowledge

  Tags in Theater, Self-Knowledge, Censure, Drama, Food

• One must know oneself. If this does not serve to discover truth, it at least serves as a rule of life and there is nothing better.

  Blaise Pascal

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Self-Knowledge, Self Discovery, Serve

• A show of envy is an insult to oneself.

  Yevgeny Yevtushenko

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  Tags in Self-Knowledge, Self

• To know oneself, one should assert oneself.

  Albert Camus

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  Tags in Self-Knowledge, Action

• If you really do put a small value upon yourself, rest assured that the world will not raise your price.

  Unknown

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• The deadliest foe to virtue would be complete self-knowledge.

  F. H. Bradley

  Tags in Self-Knowledge, Foe

• Long tresses down to the floor can be beautiful, if you have that, but learn to love what you have.

  Anita Baker

  Tags in Self-Knowledge, Floor, Tresses

• Fear is a question. What are you afraid of and why? Our fears are a treasure house of self-knowledge if we explore them.

  Marilyn French

  Tags in Self-Knowledge