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#1

“I have realized; it is during the times I am far outside my element that I experience myself the most. That I see and feel who I really am, the most! I think that's what a comet is like, you see, a comet is born in the outer realms of the universe! But it's only when it ventures too close to our sun or to other stars that it releases the blazing "tail" behind it and shoots brazen through the heavens! And meteors become sucked into our atmosphere before they burst like firecrackers and realize that they're shooting stars! That's why I enjoy taking myself out of my own element, my own comfort zone, and hurling myself out into the unknown. Because it's during those scary moments, those unsure steps taken, that I am able to see that I'm like a comet hitting a new atmosphere: suddenly I illuminate magnificently and fire dusts begin to fall off of me! I discover a smile I didn't know I had, I uncover a feeling that I didn't know existed in me... I see myself. I'm a shooting star. A meteor shower. But I'm not going to die out. I guess I'm more like a comet then. I'm just going to keep on coming back.”
― C. JoyBell C.

tags: astronomy, challenges, comets, comfort-zone, courage, extraordinary, growing, illuminate, inspirational-life, inspirational-quotes, know-thyself, learning, life-and-living, meteor-showers, meteors, outside-my-element, self-awareness, self-discovery, self-growth, self-worth, shooting-stars, the-universe

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#2

“It's definitely difficult being a woman and growing up a girl. When you're graceful, people say you lack personality; when you're serene, people say you're boring; when you're confident, people say you're arrogant; when you're feminine, people say you're too girly; and when you climb trees, people say you're too much of a tomboy! As a woman, you really need to develop a very strong sense of self and the earlier you can do that, the better! You have to be all the things that you are, without allowing other people's ignorance change you! I realized that they don't know what grace is, they can't identify serenity, they have inferiority complexes, they are incapable of being feminine, and they don't know how to climb trees!”
― C. JoyBell C.

tags: inspirational-for-women, inspirational-life, inspirational-quotes, know-thyself, life-and-living, living-life, people, quotes-about-women, quotes-for-women, the-strength-of-the-woman, womanhood

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#3

“To know a species, look at its fears. To know yourself, look at your fears. Fear in itself is not important, but fear stands there and points you in the direction of things that are important. Don't be afraid of your fears, they're not there to scare you; they're there to let you know that something is worth it.”
― C. JoyBell C.

tags: bravery, courage, fear, fears, inspirational-life, inspirational-living, inspirational-quotes, inspiring, know-thyself, know-yourself, life, life-and-living, living, living-life, self-awareness, self-knowledge, the-significance-of-fear, wisdom, wisdom-quotes

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#4

“He who knows others is wise; he who knows himself is enlightened.”
― Lao Tzu

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#5

“The first thing you have to know is yourself. A man who knows himself can step outside himself and watch his own reactions like an observer.”
― Adam Smith, The Money Game

tags: know-thyself

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#6

“Your own Self-Realization is the greatest service you can render the world.”
― Ramana Maharshi

tags: awakening, awareness, enlightenment, giving, inspirational, know-thyself, self-realization, service, spiritual, wisdom-quotes

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#7

“No one is free who has not obtained the empire of himself. No man is free who cannot command himself.”
― Pythagoras

tags: individuation, know-thyself

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#8

“I am larger, better than I thought; I did not know I held so much goodness.

All seems beautiful to me.

Whoever denies me, it shall not trouble me;
Whoever accepts me, he or she shall be blessed, and shall bless me.”
― Walt Whitman, Leaves of Grass

tags: acceptance, awareness, beauty, blessing, inspirational, know-thyself, love, wisdom-quotes

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#9

“The closer you come to knowing that you alone create the world of your experience, the more vital it becomes for you to discover just who is doing the creating.”
― Eric Micha'el Leventhal

tags: awakening, awareness, consciousness, create-your-life, create-your-reality, creation, creative-vision, creativity, enlightenment, experience, identity, inspirational, know-thyself, meditation, mind, mind-body-spirit, perception, power-of-thoughts, reality, self-awareness, spiritual, subconscious, subconscious-mind, who-am-i, wisdom

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#10

“You need to know things the others don't know. It's what no one knows about you that allows you to know yourself.”
― Don DeLillo , Point Omega

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#11

“We must not be defined by what we do, but we must be what and who we are, then only happen to do what we do!”
― C. JoyBell C.

tags: inspirational-life, inspirational-outlook, inspirational-quotes, jobs, know-thyself, lot-in-life, self-knowledge, work

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#12

“Know thyself and all will be revealed.”
― Pamela Theresa Loertscher

tags: know-thyself, pamela-loertscher, spiritual-awareness

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#13

“When you know the knower within, you don't need to know further. When you know the meditator within, you don't need to meditate further. When you truly know the worshiper in you, you are to be worshiped.”
― Amit Ray, Nonviolence: The Transforming Power

tags: compassion, know-thyself, knowing, knowing-who-you-are, knowledge-of-self, love, meditation, meditation-experience, meditation-techniques, peace, self-awareness, self-discovery, wisdom, worship, worshiping

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#14

“We all need a technological detox; we need to throw away our phones and computers instead of using them as our pseudo-defence system for anything that comes our way. We need to be bored and not have anything to use to shield the boredom away from us. We need to be lonely and see what it is we really feel when we are. If we continue to distract ourselves so we never have to face the realities in front of us, when the time comes and you are faced with something bigger than what your phone, food, or friends can fix, you will be in big trouble.”
― Evan Sutter, Solitude: How Doing Nothing Can Change the World

tags: boredom, happiness, know-thyself, loneliness, mind-body-spirit, mindfulness, technology-addiction

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#15

“Dear young woman, do not place your sense of beauty and self worth, upon the plastic pedestal called "what other people say to you", "what other people think about your photo", "how many 'likes' your pictures get", "how many guys tell you that you look sexy", "how skinny can you be?". A plastic pedestal that is but the dismal shadow of the real one. Dear young woman, place your sense of self worth and beauty upon the Roman marble pedestal that will exist even when all other people are no longer there. If you were the very last person on this planet, you should still be able to know within your heart that you are worthy, you are beautiful, you are wanted. Even if you become the very last person on Earth, you should be fully wanted. Want yourself. Know yourself. See yourself as beautiful, see yourself as worthy.”
― C. JoyBell C.

tags: beauty, for-women, guidance-for-girls, guidance-for-life, guidance-quotes, inspirational-life, inspirational-living, know-thyself, self-knowledge, self-love, self-respect, self-value, self-worth, wisdom-quotes, women-s-inspirational, you-are-loved, you-are-valuable, you-are-worthy

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#16

“No one knows everything. Everyone can contribute to the happiness of others.”
― Bangambiki Habyarimana, Pearls Of Eternity

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#17

“The one great art is that of making a complete human being of oneself.”
― G.I. Gurdjieff

tags: art, consciousness, education, inspirational, know-thyself, philosophy, self-awareness, wholeness, wisdom

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#18

“Using reason without applying it to experience only leads to theoretical illusions. Ideas derived from real world experiences lead to acquisition of knowledge, and the accumulation of time-tested principles leads to wisdom.”
― Kilroy J. Oldster, Dead Toad Scrolls

tags: experience, know-thyself, knowing-oneself, knowledge, knowledge-of-self, learning, learning-from-adversity, learning-from-experiences, learning-from-mistakes, learning-from-mistakes-quote, learning-from-our-struggles, learning-from-the-past, learning-process, personal-development, wisdom, wisdom-quotations, wisdom-quotes

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#19

“See everything, but judge nothing. Just choose your own path and let others choose their own. See everything, but judge no one. Just focus on your own path and let others focus on their own. See everything, but judge not what you see. You have your own inner worlds to conquer, your own inner gardens to water and to hone. You have your own inner gold to mine. See all, judge not, know thyself.”
― C. JoyBell C.

tags: clarity-of-vision, do-not-judge, find-your-own-path, guidance, inspirational-quotes, know-thyself, no-judgment, see-all-things, soul-alchemy, truth, vision, wisdom-quotes

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#20

“Quem pausa para admirar a beleza se torna tambem belo.

(One who pauses to admire beauty becomes, himself, beautiful.)”
― Eric Micha'el Leventhal

tags: appreciation, awareness, beauty, beleza, brasil, brazil, inspiration, know-thyself, portuguese, português, present-moment, wisdom

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#21

“In a nutshell, I am not unaware of my failings. Neither am I a stranger to irony.”
― Mordecai Richler, Barney's Version

tags: biography, honesty, insite-to-self, irony, know-thyself, self-deprecation

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#22

“In a few seconds, we judge another person and think we know them. When, the person we’ve lived with the longest, we still don’t know very well—ourselves.”
― Charles F. Glassman, Brain Drain - The Breakthrough That Will Change Your Life

tags: judgment, know-thyself, knowing-oneself

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#23

“Your observations and conclusions are mirrored illusions of your inner state of being, teaching you truth through falsehoods, strength through weakness and clarity through confusion. You are seeing your Self now, disguised as the world through a lens of denial, but you will soon come to realize that what you choose to deny in yourself manifests into your world. The flaws you see in your world are your most powerful teachers.”
― KA Chinery

tags: ascension, clarity, confusion, denial, duality, enlightenment, flaws, growth, know-thyself, perception, society, the-world

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#24

“He has no need for faith who knows the uncreated, who has cut off rebirth, who has destroyed any opportunity for good or evil, and cast away all desire. He is indeed the ultimate man.”
― Gautama Buddha, The Dhammapada

tags: attachment, awakening, balance, creation, desire, enlightenment, equanimity, faith, good-and-evil, know-thyself, meaning-of-life, nirvana, religion, spiritual, suffering, wisdom

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#25

“When you don't know yourself, who you are and what you want, you just become a product of your environment - a leaf that gets blown each and every way until it just lands, in a big pile of mud, and gets stuck.”
― Evan Sutter, Solitude: How Doing Nothing Can Change the World

tags: confidence, confidence-and-attitude, happiness, happiness-quotes, individualism, individuality, know-thyself, know-yourself

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#26

“A person must know who he is. A person must understand himself, improve himself, learn his weaknesses in order to overcome them. It is hard for a person to understand his own weaknesses.”
― Chaim Potok

tags: know-thyself, knowledge, overcome, understand, understanding-oneself, weakness, weaknesses

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#27

“Study yourself; it should be the first subject you learn and the one you revise each and every day”
― Evan Sutter, Solitude: How Doing Nothing Can Change the World

tags: know-thyself, meditation, mindfulness

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#28

“The scene is memory and is therefore nonrealistic. Memory takes a lot of poetic license. It omits some details; others are exaggerated, according to the emotional value of the articles it touches, for memory is seated predominantly in the heart.”
― Tennessee Williams, The Glass Menagerie

tags: memory

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#29

“Oh, you can't describe someone you're in love with!”
― Tennessee Williams, A Streetcar Named Desire

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#30

“I didn't go to the moon, I went much further—for time is the longest distance between two places”
― Tennessee Williams, The Glass Menagerie

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