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- A man can know nothing of mankind without knowing something of himself. Self-knowledge is the property of that man whose passions have their full play, but who ponders over their results.
- Benjamin Disraeli (1804 - 1881)
- To learn to get along without, to realize that what the world is going to demand of us may be a good deal more important than what we are entitled to demand of it - this is a hard lesson.
- Bruce Catton
- The conqueror and king in each of us is the Knower of truth. Let that Knower awaken in us and drive the horses of the mind, emotions, and physical body on the pathway which that king has chosen.
- George S. Arundale
- When all is summed up, a man never speaks of himself without loss; his accusations of himself are always believed; his praises never.
- Michel de Montaigne (1533 - 1592)
- Neurotics chase after people and jobs they don't really want, just to prove that they are like everybody else - which is the last thing they really want.
- Author Unknown
- Take egotism out and you would castrate the benefactors.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803 - 1882)
- The good Lord gave me a brain that works so fast that in one moment I can worry as much as it would take others a whole year to achieve.
- Author Unknown
- It would take battalions of angels to protect us from our dreaded dangers, though in a long lifetime few of the dangers come to anything.
- Author Unknown
- There are people who are always anticipating trouble, and in this way they manage to enjoy many sorrows that never really happen to them.
- Josh Billings (1818 - 1885)
- To worry is a sin. Only one sort of worry is permissible; to worry because one worries.
- Hasidic Saying
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