The Gods themselves cannot recall their gifts.
Alfred Lord Tennyson

A person places themselves on a level with the ones they praise.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Unlike grown ups, children have little need to deceive themselves.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Only by joy and sorrow does a person know anything about themselves and their destiny. They learn what to do and what to avoid.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Those that despise people will never get the best out of others and themselves.
Alexis de Tocqueville

I guess you'd call me an independent, since I've never identified myself with one party or another in politics. I always decide my vote by taking as careful a look as I can at the actual candidates and issues themselves, no matter what the party label.
Jackie Robinson

The greatest enemy to human souls is the self-righteous spirit which makes men look to themselves for salvation.
Charles Spurgeon

None are more unjust in their judgments of others than those who have a high opinion of themselves.
Charles Spurgeon

One that desires to excel should endeavor in those things that are in themselves most excellent.
Epictetus

People often become actresses because of something they dislike about themselves: They pretend they are someone else.
Bette Davis

It all depends on how we look at things, and not how they are in themselves.
Carl Jung

I had a great many sex and love cases where people were absolutely devastated when somebody with whom they were compulsively in love didn't love them back. They were killing themselves with anxiety and depression.
Albert Ellis

We teach people that they upset themselves. We can't change the past, so we change how people are thinking, feeling and behaving today.
Albert Ellis

I get people to truly accept themselves unconditionally, whether or not their therapist or anyone loves them.
Albert Ellis

People pay for what they do, and still more for what they have allowed themselves to become. And they pay for it very simply; by the lives they lead.
James A. Baldwin

Pessimists are the people who have no hope for themselves or for others. Pessimists are also people who think the human race is beneath their notice, that they're better than other human beings.
James A. Baldwin

It is not the language of painters but the language of nature which one should listen to, the feeling for the things themselves, for reality is more important than the feeling for pictures.
Vincent Van Gogh

Better to have beasts that let themselves be killed than men who run away.
Jean-Paul Sartre

People blame their environment. There is only one person to blame - and only one - themselves.
Robert Collier

You know why we're stuck with the myth that only black people have soul? Because white people don't let themselves feel things.
Janis Joplin