The more you know yourself, the more patience you have for what you see in others.
The most difficult thing in life is to know yourself.
Really, when you take a step back and you really know yourself, you're able to make better decisions.
How can you come to know yourself? Never by thinking, always by doing. Try to do your duty, and you'll know right away what you amount to.
If you know the enemy and know yourself you need not fear the results of a hundred battles.
You just have to know yourself well enough to know what's important. And when you do that, things just don't get in your way. You don't allow them to.
If you are never alone you cannot know yourself. And if you do not know yourself, you will begin to fear the void.
To know nothing about yourself is to live. To know yourself badly is to think.
Only as you do know yourself can your brain serve you as a sharp and efficient tool. Know your own failings, passions, and prejudices so you can separate them from what you see.
Why are people afraid of getting older? You feel wiser. You feel more mature. You feel like you know yourself better. You would trade that for softer skin? Not me!
Nobody knows you. You don't know yourself. And I, who am half in love with you, What am I in love with? My own imaginings?
To know yourself you have only to set down a true statement of those that ever loved or hated you.
If you're not satisfied with the way the world is, or if you think the world can be better, you have to figure out a way to know yourself and better yourself. Then you have the assurance that something in the world has improved.
Only in relationship can you know yourself, not in abstraction, and certainly not in isolation.
To be a great artist, you need to know yourself as best as you possibly can. I live my life and delve into my own psyche. It's more about exploring how I feel rather than making pale imitations of something that came before. We are unique beings, and the way we look at things is our own.
Know your enemy and know yourself and you can fight a hundred battles without disaster.
The better you know yourself, the better your relationship with the rest of the world.
At the end of the day, you know yourself best.
Therefore I say: know the enemy and know yourself; in a hundred battles you will never be in peril. When you are ignorant of the enemy but know yourself, your chances of winning or losing are equal. If ignorant both of your enemy and of yourself, you are certain in every battle to be in peril.
People worry about their looks going, but go deeper, and you realise you know yourself more and you're more comfortable in your own skin and more settled within yourself, and that's a really great basis on which to live your life.
You've got all these books on self help, getting to know yourself, doing the right thing, eating the so-called right foods, even down to what books you have on your shelves. People are encouraged to look to themselves first as opposed to being a part of society.
If you are never alone, you cannot know yourself.
To know yourself as the Being underneath the thinker, the stillness underneath the mental noise, the love and joy underneath the pain, is freedom, salvation, enlightenment.
You don't have to look like George Clooney. You just have to know yourself.
What I try to focus on is not to try to stop the march of technological progress. Instead, I try to run faster. If Amazon knows you better than you know yourself, then the game is up.
