If God gave the soul his whole creation she would not be filled thereby but only with himself.
Meister Eckhart

The cuckoo who is on to himself is halfway out of the clock.
Wilson Mizner

I begin with the principle that all men are bores. Surely no one will prove himself so great a bore as to contradict me in this.
Soren Kierkegaard

Old age realizes the dreams of youth: look at Dean Swift; in his youth he built an asylum for the insane, in his old age he was himself an inmate.
Soren Kierkegaard

A lot of people run a race to see who is fastest. I run to see who has the most guts, who can punish himself into exhausting pace, and then at the end, punish himself even more.
Steve Prefontaine

He who binds to himself a joy Does the winged life destroy; But he who kisses the joy as it flies Lives in eternity's sun rise.
William Blake

No man is free who is not master of himself.
Epictetus

If man made himself the first object of study, he would see how incapable he is of going further. How can a part know the whole?
Blaise Pascal

The greatness of man is great in that he knows himself to be wretched. A tree does not know itself to be wretched.
Blaise Pascal

A person is always startled when he hears himself called old for the first time.
Oliver Wendell Holmes

I think the future of psychotherapy and psychology is in the school system. We need to teach every child how to rarely seriously disturb himself or herself and how to overcome disturbance when it occurs.
Albert Ellis

A rule I have had for years is: to treat the Lord Jesus Christ as a personal friend. His is not a creed, a mere doctrine, but it is He Himself we have.
Dwight L. Moody

No man can resolve himself into Heaven.
Dwight L. Moody

My other brother-in-law died. He was a karate expert, then joined the army. The first time he saluted, he killed himself.
Henny Youngman

Every man has a property in his own person. This nobody has a right to, but himself.
John Locke

Where is the man who has the strength to be true, and to show himself as he is?
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Every author in some way portrays himself in his works, even if it be against his will.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

He who does not think much of himself is much more esteemed than he imagines.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

For a man to achieve all that is demanded of him he must regard himself as greater than he is.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

A creation of importance can only be produced when its author isolates himself, it is a child of solitude.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe