Self Help Quotes

Love is the strength of life.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

In all spheres of life, we find the grace of patient endurance.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

In any situation, listen and follow the first instinct, the sacred inner voice.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

We all face difficult times. It is only the grace of God that gives strength to endure.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

Life was not meant to be live alone.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

Minds are like flowers, they only open when the time is right.

~ Stephen Richards

A broken friendship that is mended through forgiveness can be even stronger than it once was.

~ Stephen Richards

Once you start laughing, you start healing.

~ Sherry Argov

I am forever engaged in a silent battle in my head over whether or not to lift the fork to my mouth, and when I talk myself into doing so, I taste only shame. I have an eating disorder.

~ Jena Morrow

You willed yourself to where you are today, so will yourself out of it.

~ Stephen Richards

If the great internet connects us all ... then why are so many of us becoming increasingly isolated?

~ Stephen Richards

Too much honesty makes you sound insincere.

~ Patrick Rothfuss

A BILL OF ASSERTIVE RIGHTSI: You have the right to judge your own behavior, thoughts, and emotions, and to take the responsibility for their initiation and consequences upon yourself.II: You have the right to offer no reasons or excuses for justifying your behavior.III: You have the right to judge if you are responsible for finding solutions to other people’s problems.IV: You have the right to change your mind.V: You have the right to make mistakes—and be responsible for them.VI: You have the right to say, “I don’t know.”VII: You have the right to be independent of the goodwill of others before coping with them.VIII: You have the right to be illogical in making decisions. IX: You have the right to say, “I don’t understand.”X: You have the right to say, “I don’t care.”YOU HAVE THE RIGHT TO SAY NO, WITHOUT FEELING GUILTY

~ Manuel J. Smith

A fine glass vase goes from treasure to trash, the moment it is broken. Fortunately, something else happens to you and me. Pick up your pieces. Then, help me gather mine.

~ Vera Nazarian

stars are the scars of the universe

~ Ricky Maye

You cannot solve a problem in the same frequency in which it was created.

~ Lynn Grabhorn

Anger does not solve anything, it builds nothing.

~ Thomas S. Monson

Sometimes, I cannot control myself. Please do not blame me, its not me. Maybe it is someone who knows better about me.

~ Santosh Kalwar

When you express gratitude for the blessings that come into your life, it not only encourages the universe to send you more, it also sees to it that those blessings remain.

~ Stephen Richards

If you're trapped in a room, and nobody is coming to save you, what can you do? You have to bang on the walls and break the windows. You have to climb out and save yourself. It's obvious, Li-ling, that crying doesn't help a person live.

~ Madeleine Thien

However, when we are depressed, being reminded of other people's suffering only serves to increase our self-hatred.

~ Dorothy Rowe

No matter whether you believe in luck or chance, the final decision is from yourself.

~ Stephen Richards

Imperfection is simply not a good enough excuse to have someone keep hurting you just because they feel like it.

~ Pandora Poikilos

The mind thinks thoughts that we don't plan. It's not as if we say, 'At 9:10 I'm going to be filled with self-hatred.

~ Sharon Salzberg

Part of abandoning the all-or-nothing mentality is allowing yourself room for setbacks. We are bound to have lapses on the road to health and wellness, but it is critical that we learn how to handle small failures positively so that we can minimize their long-term destructive effects. One setback is one setback—it is not the end of the world, nor is it the end of your journey toward a better you.

~ Jillian Michaels

You are not broken. You are not a problem to be solved. Solving your “problem”, whatever you perceive your problem or problems to be, is not the key to happiness.

~ Golda Poretsky

It's not a problem. There are people out there with much worse problems than mine.-CynthiaDoesn't make yours any more fun to bear.-LizaNo. But it does help with the self-pity.- Cynthia

~ Jennifer Crusie

You are only as beautiful as your last action ...

~ Stephen Richards

No matter where you're from or what you've done, you're never stuck in a particular circumstance, relationship, or cycle unless you say you are.

~ Russell Simmons

A lot of books in the self-help section of your bookstore really belong in the fiction section.

~ Steve Maraboli

Stand out from the crowd, be yourself.

~ Stephen Richards

Exhaust your worries and they will soon leave you.

~ Stephen Richards

I have my own theory: ignorance is bliss. The less you know, the more confident you can be in tackling things.

~ Stephen Richards

A thought is a Cosmic Order waiting to happen.

~ Stephen Richards

Inaction creates nothing. Action creates success.

~ Stephen Richards

Always have an air of expectancy.

~ Stephen Richards

Poverty: a temporary financial low, curable by money.

~ Stephen Richards

Hard work is what you do to make ends meet, easy work is getting others to do the hard work for you.

~ Stephen Richards

I was not rescued by a prince, I was the administrator of my own rescue.

~ Elizabeth Gilbert

Thrill me, chill me I went in search of money and success, all I got was a bellyful of excess! Now that I've realigned myself I’m on my tip-toes because life is sweet! I'm overwhelmed with gratitude for all the blessings that are manifesting in my life … neat!

~ Stephen Richards