A Quote by Confucius

Be aroused by poetry; structure yourself with propriety, refine yourself with music.

Confucius

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Confucius
Chinese - Philosopher
551 BC - 479 BC

To write poetry, like sincere poetry, it is like performing heart surgery on yourself without anesthesia...in public...You are peeling back layers. You are dissecting yourself...You do not know what they [the audience] is going to do when you reach into yourself and rip out your organs to be displayed

Amir Sulaiman

Let a man be stimulated by poetry, established by the rules of propriety, and perfected by music.

Confucius

Refine your senses through the great masters of music, painting, and poetry.

Ernst Haas

See to it that you temper yourself with one thousand days of practice, and refine yourself with ten thousand days of training.

Miyamoto Musashi

Know yourself. Feel yourself. Love yourself. Respect yourself. Take good care of yourself. You are your most precious possession on Earth.

Robert Muller

Embrace and love all of yourself - past, present, and future. Forgive yourself quickly and as often as necessary. Encourage yourself. Tell yourself good things about yourself.

Melody Beattie

In a world where everything revolves around yourself-protec t yourself, promote yourself, comfort yourself, and take care of yourself-Jesus says, 'Crucify yourself. Put aside all self-preservati on in order to live for God's glorification, no matter what that means for you in the culture around you.'

David Platt

Memoir is a unique opportunity to revisit yourself. I don't mean by memory. I mean in the revision process. You don't just write a chapter and that's it. You must constantly return to it. You must dote on it. And even if it's saying something ugly about who you are, you have to find the poetry in it. You have to find the poetry in yourself.

Joshua Mohr

If you cannot conduct yourself with propriety, give place to those who can.

Horace

Trust yourself. Think for yourself. Act for yourself. Speak for yourself. Be yourself. Imitation is suicide.

Marva Collins

Free yourself from the psychological structure of society, which is to free yourself from the essence of conflict.

Jiddu Krishnamurti

When you're in school until you're 25 and you get out and suddenly structure is not handed to you, if you're smart you realize that you need to create structure for yourself.

Anson Mount

Get some distance on yourself and undertand the multilevel structure that's operating. There's a power structure within you. You're a very political creature.

Frederick Lenz

And identity is funny being yourself is funny as you are never yourself to yourself except as you remember yourself and then of course you do not believe yourself.