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Letter "S" » Self-knowledge
«Confront the dark parts of yourself, and work to banish them with illumination and forgiveness. Your willingness to wrestle with your demons will cause your angels to sing. Use the pain as fuel, as a reminder of your strength.»
«It's unbelievable how much you don't know about the game you've been playing all your life.»
«I don't get angry very often. I lose my temper rarely. And when I do, there's always a legitimate cause. Normally I have a great lightness of being. I take things in a very happy, amused way.»
Author: Julia Roberts
(Actress)
| About:
Self-knowledge
| Keywords:
amused, legitimate, lightness, lost cause, normally, temper
«It seems as if only now I really know who I am. My strengths, my weaknesses, my jealousies?it?s as if all of it has been boiling in a pot for all these years, and as it boils, it evaporates into steam, and all that?s left in the pot in the end is your essence, the stuff you started out with in the very beginning.»
Author: Kirk Douglas
| About:
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.»
Author: Sabrina Ward Harrison
| About:
Confidence,
Fear,
Self-esteem,
Self-knowledge,
Solitude
| Keywords:
like it, show
«If you know the enemy and know yourself you need not fear the results of a hundred battles.»
«A man is never astonished that he doesn't know what another does, but he is surprised at the gross ignorance of the other in not knowing what he does.»
Author: Thomas C. Haliburton
(Writer)
| About:
Ignorance,
Knowledge,
Men,
Self-knowledge
| Keywords:
astonished, gross
«If you want to know all about»
«A man should first direct himself in the way he should go. Only then should he instruct others.»
Author: Buddha
| About:
Self-knowledge,
Teachers and teaching
| Keywords:
direct, instruct, instructing, instructs
«He who knows others is learned; he who knows himself is wise.»
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