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"To attempt to know myself 'apart' from God is to choose to know nothing more than 'a part' of myself."

"To know oneself, one should assert oneself."

"The more you know yourself, the less you depend on external validation."

"You need to know things the others don't know. It's what no one knows about you that allows you to know yourself."

"You have to know your own mind inside out before you can know the minds of others."

"There are many things that you can avoid by just knowing something. Knowledge of self is the most notable knowledge I pursue. By knowing myself, I avoided dead dreams and a meaningless life."

"He hath always but slightly, known himself...King Lear."

"The greatest person to know in life is yourself. There's no one who will treat you better."

"Every intelligent individual wants to know what makes him tick, and yet is at once fascinated and frustrated by the fact that oneself is the most difficult of all things to know."

"Wisdom begins in knowing the self."
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"Any thought sequence that minimizes anxiety would get reinforced over time. The sequence would be maintained during the person's development and would be provoked in contexts where refutation of the belief might occur. So, any kind of refutation of a person's religious beliefs makes the beliefs only stronger."

"Are you a kind of person who likes to keep all your emotions hidden from the people around you! Do you prefer restraining your feelings a little too much! In that case, you must know that too much emotional suppression can have catastrophic impact over your body."

"Tolstoy was a Caucasian, Gandhi was an Asian, and Martin Luther King Jr. was a Negro, yet all of their hearts were inspired by the one idea of nonviolent resistance. King received it from Gandhi, Gandhi received it from Tolstoy, and Tolstoy received it from Christ."

"Whom the society deems worthless, once they discover their special inclination, it will change the very course of their lives as well as the shape of the very society that distastes them."

"Regardless of all our pretenses, deep within, we are still unconsciously the same old cave-people."

"It's in the nature of the humans and the entire animal kingdom to return blow for blow, cheating for cheating, lie for lie, to hit back with all our might. But what makes us true humans is the power to not hit back."
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