Self Help Quotes

Once they have been affected---once it sets in---codependency takes on a life of its own. It is similar to catching pneumonia or picking up a destructive habit. Once you've got it, you've got it.If you want to get rid of it, YOU have to do something to make it go away. It doesn't matter whose fault it is. Your codependency becomes your problem; solving your problems is your responsibility.

~ Melody Beattie

When you initially forgive, it is like letting go of a hot iron. There is initial pain and the scars will show, but you can start living again.

~ Stephen Richards

The more you are able to forgive then the more you are able to love.

~ Stephen Richards

You cannot give out one frequency, that of disrespect, and expect respect to flow toward you. Neither can you hold on to your biases, prejudices, and negative thinking toward something, and expect that something positive will return to you.

~ Stephen Richards

Intuition means exactly what it sounds like, in-tuition! An inner tutor or teaching and learning mechanism that takes us forward daily. It is a resource that, where recognized, has infinite potential.

~ Sylvia Clare

Regardless of how far we have come, we are still looking for answers.

~ Stephen Richards

Just because something is addictive doesn't mean that you will get addicted to it. But . . . if your stomach ties up in knots while you count the seconds waiting for a phone call from that special someone . . . if you hear a loud buzzing in your ears when you see a certain person's car (or one just like it) . . . if your eyes burn when you hear a random love song or see a couple holding hands . . . if you suffer the twin agonies of craving for and withdrawing from a series of unrequited crushes or toxic relationships . . . if you always feel like you're clutching at someone's ankle and dragged across the floor as they try to leave the room . . . welcome to the club.

~ Ethlie Ann Vare

There is nothing to prove to anyone, just concentrate on your own needs.

~ Stephen Richards

Focusing is the great secret of power. If you want to use your full amount of focus, you must close down all other thought and direct your power of generating mental steam toward one outcome.

~ Stephen Richards

You cannot run at full throttle when applying your mindset to all of the different things running through your head. Focusing is the key to manifesting your desires.

~ Stephen Richards

To heal physically, one must heal the emotional aspect of the issue first or it will resurface in another way.

~ Stephen Richards

Wherever your path takes you, may all your deathbed wishes come true, and may you celebrate each and every one of them many long years before your final breath.

~ Gay Hendricks

Your dreams will come true, but do not be overly demanding. Be logical – there are not enough mansions for everyone in the world, are there?

~ Stephen Richards

To have more peace, as well as more time, start by letting go of the notion that time can be manipulated. Then, let go of the idea that it confines you. Instead, set out to use the time that is there for its true and best purpose – as the space within which you can live your life to the fullest.

~ Michelle Passoff

We tend to think of future inventions and discoveries, but in reality, these things already exist in the knowledge bank of the universe.

~ Stephen Richards

Knowing that the brain is predisposed to religion and spirituality, then might it be that God is a creation of the brain?

~ Stephen Richards

There is no such thing as chance. Everything occurs as a result of cause and effect, what you do now will create your own future.

~ Sylvia Clare

Making excuses is one of a host of self-defeating behaviours and mental patterns that can block your success.

~ Stephen Richards

You have two voices: the one you speak with and the one you think with. While the former is the one others hear, of greater importance is the one you hear.

~ Stephen Richards

Though it may be interesting to know how many hairs there are on the human head, or how the giant red spot on the surface of Jupiter was formed, the real truths we are interested in are those about ourselves.

~ Stephen Richards

If you have ever prayed for something and received what you wanted, you engaged in Cosmic Ordering.

~ Stephen Richards

To rise above the conflicting desires of others, there must be no conflict about your own.

~ Stephen Richards

We can only find those faults in others that already exist within us, and the same goes for those things we admire about them.

~ Stephen Richards

While it is easy to get caught up in the beliefs and attitudes of others, it is easier still to make one’s self a victim of circumstance. Victims of circumstance believe they have no power over their lives, since they are merely the play-things of fate. Since they believe this, it is therefore so.

~ Stephen Richards

The problem with most people who say they believe, however, is that said belief is only a thin layer of solid ice which rests over a vast ocean that is likewise deep with non-solid disbelief.

~ Stephen Richards

I have never seen a newspaper headline where those in spirit, without physical bodies, carried out evil deeds like a mugger in a parking lot.

~ Stephen Richards

Putting someone down with name calling reveals your own low self-esteem.

~ Stephen Richards

The universe will use any vehicle and any medium to communicate with us. Our job is to be alert and to listen.

~ Elaine Seiler

Good, capable individuals unconsciously and consciously guard and nurture themselves and their spirits every day in all sorts of choices, large and small. Just as their lives are never static, they are rarely if ever fractured. Their morals and ethics are never cut off from the whole of their evolving beings.

~ Donald Van De Mark

Surround yourself with 'yay-sayers' not naysayers.

~ Lynn A. Robinson

Since extra-sensory perception (ESP) is awareness of the world beyond the senses, it would be inappropriate to term this Sixth Sense ‘extrasensory’.

~ Stephen Richards

People must come to the understanding that they do not have a fixed identity. They have the power to identify and alter features of their personalities that they find negative or unpleasant.

~ Lisa Firestone

You have to let go of what is holding you back.

~ Celso Cukierkorn

To be successful, you need to do two things:1. Condition your hair,2. Do the same with your mind.

~ Manhardeep Singh Ahluwalia

The question is why one should be so inwardly preoccupied at all. Why not reach out to others in love and solidarity or peer into the natural world for some glimmer of understanding? Why retreat into anxious introspection when, as Emerson might have said, there is a vast world outside to explore? Why spend so much time working on oneself when there is so much real work to be done?

~ Barbara Ehrenreich

When you reach out to those in need, do not be surprised if the essential meaning of something occurs.

~ Stephen Richards

Intuition is a sense of knowing how to act spontaneously, without needing to know why. The why question leads to indecision, anxiety, caution and self-limitation. There are all responses which originate in fear-based emotions.

~ Sylvia Clare

Intuitive responses are responses which originate from joy.

~ Sylvia Clare

Everyone makes mistakes. Whether we put our mistakes to use depends on how deeply we reflect on our actions. It is desirable to reflect until the tears come. - On Self-Reflection -

~ Kentetsu Takamori

On the Brevity of Our TiesTies in this world last only for a time. We are husband and wife, parent and child, for a short period only. Once this reality sinks in, we cannot help treasuring each moment of our brief association.

~ Kentetsu Takamori