From our newsletter Outside the Lines

“To thine own self be true, and it must follow, as the night the day, thou canst not then be false to any man.”
-William Shakespeare, English writer

“Be a first rate version of yourself, not a second rate version of someone else.”
-Judy Garland, American entertainer“

“Life is short. Time is fleeting. Realize the Self. Purity of the heart is the gateway to God. Aspire. Renounce. Meditate. Be good; do good. Be kind; be compassionate. Inquire, know Thyself.”
- Swami Sivananda, Indian monk

“Our works are the mirror wherein the spirit first sees its natural lineaments, Hence, too, the folly of that impossible precept, Know thyself; till it be translated into this partially possible one, know what thou canst work at.”
Thomas Carlyle, Scottish writer

“Resolve to find thyself; and to know that he who finds himself, loses his misery.”
- Matthew Arnold, English writer

“There are two sentences inscribed upon the Delphic oracle, hugely accommodated to the usage of man’s life: “Know thyself,” and “Nothing too much”; and upon these all other precepts depend.”
-Plutarch, Greek writer

“Know thyself! A maxim as pernicious as it is ugly. Whoever observes himself arrests his own development. A caterpillar who wanted to know itself well would never become a butterfly.”
- Andre Gide, French writer