Self Help Quotes

Hope is a possibility.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

When you get older, you know that life’s mysteries are revealed in the fullness of time. All you have to do is wait, watch, and be amazed.

~ Linda Gray

Everything negative, useless, and redundant must go.

~ Linda Gray

If you’ve raced home after working ten-hour days to get dinner on the table every night for twenty years…you deserve more than absolution from guilt and the kindness you’d give freely to anyone else. You deserve a gold medal.

~ Linda Gray

You don’t have to know where you’re going. In fact, it’s better if you don’t.

~ Linda Gray

There are no failures. Just experiences.

~ Des Coroy

The hardest lesson you will ever learn will be to love yourself. But you can do it. There will always be days when you hate yourself, days when you wish you had never been born. But darling, you are beautiful, and if Shakespeare had met you, you would've inspired his 18th sonnet, and if Monet had known you, he would've given up painting water lilies and chosen to paint you instead. I know it’s hard to love yourself, but sometimes it’s okay to be a little selfish with your love..When you begin to feel worthless, remember that the stars died for you. You are made of elements that are thousands of years old, elements that make up every atom of your being. When you want to cut your wrists, remember that the souls of stars live in your veins. Don’t kill them.Live for the life you always wanted but were too scared to pursue.Live for you. Live for me. Live for every person who has ever loved you, for the people who have come before you, so that you may be here today.Live for the fire that burns in your soul, that tells you: keep going, you’re almost there, just a little farther. Because when Rome burned down the emperor didn't run away, he stayed and he sang for his people. Stay. Sing for your people. Sing for us.

~ M.k.

Love someone because their soul inspires you, not because you’re interested in the relief from loneliness and companionship they can provide. Anybody can do that. Not just anybody can show you to yourself.

~ Brianna Wiest

The key to finding happiness in this life is realizing that the only way to overcome is to transcend; to find happiness in the simple pleasures, to master the art of just being.

~ Brianna Wiest

You will become who you are after you have been lost and recovered time and time again– you will turn up without pieces that needed to be shredded and with new discoveries that will give you a stepping stone to move forward on.

~ Brianna Wiest

Everything that happens to you is meticulously planned and has great significance. You need to regain your faith in the fact that there is a greater plan at hand, always. This does not mean that your life will be free of pain or trial, it simply means that which you go through you will also leave with something greater than when you started. Look for what you should take, and let go of what it takes from you.

~ Brianna Wiest

We must be able to look under the surface rather than over-analyze it and delude ourselves into thinking we’re seeing beneath it.

~ Brianna Wiest

Everybody's got skeletons in the closets. Every once in a while, you've got to open up the closet and the let the skeletons breathe. Half the time, the very thing you think is gonna destroy you or ruin you is the very thing that nobody cares about. My advice to people with skeletons is to dust them off every now and then-- as long as your closet's aint full of them. It's not good to have more than two or three.

~ Tyler Perry

...avoid – like the measles – phony laughter. No, really. If you don’t find it to be funny, don't laugh. More evil and injustice has gotten a foothold in this world because of polite, counterfeit laughter – a desire to not “offend”, or to not be “peculiar” - than anything else.But when you do laugh, let your belly shimmy.

~ Jenna Brooks

Every man must nurture is spiritual soul daily.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

If you are allowing something to upset or anger you, try this: Before giving in to those negative emotions, try and think of one positive thing, one learning that you will gain, a single glimpse of something that you can use to build a positive future. Here’s a nudge to push you along: You own your mind. You choose to be either a victim or to take control.

~ Michael Holbrook

Love yourself enough to have a meaningful life.

~ Millen Livis

We assure you there is no separateness between you and God/Goddess/The All That Is other than your perception.

~ Réné Gaudette

changing lives started with changing my own.

~ Alexandra Elle

Focus on keeping faith and growing your roots of light so strong and deep that no one, not even yourself, can make you believe something about yourself that is not good for your soul.

~ Molly Friedenfeld

Although others can devalue who we are and what we do it is entirely up to us, whether we accept or reject it. Whenever we disagree with the offered opinion we can thank for it and then move on. There is no need to prove at all that we have a different perception of ourselves from what we are being offered.

~ Raphael Zernoff

Discovering the truth of who you are is the only way to love and care for yourself.

~ Vironika Tugaleva

Love, above all things, is a commitment to your choice.

~ Rob Liano

Hope is firm belief.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

We have to walk by faith to possess all that is duly ours.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

To give up power to change for the better is inherently distasteful to everyone, and to force people to affirm that they are addicts or alcoholics so they can speak in a meeting is shameful and demoralizing.

~ Chris Prentiss

Healing is not a ‘black and white’ process, it’s not even a ‘grey’ process, it more like a; ‘pinky, yellowy, orangy, greeny, bluey and purply’ process with a hint of ‘gold and silver’ and a huge jar of ‘faith

~ Wayne Lee

Healing is achieved through turning on the light of your soul and allowing it to shine.

~ Janet Gallagher Nestor

The observer self, a part of who we really are, is that part of us that is watching both our false self and our True Self. We might say that it even watches us when we watch. It is our Consciousness, it is the core experience of our Child Within. It thus cannot be watched—at least by anything or any being that we know of on this earth. It transcends our five senses, our co-dependent self and all other lower, though necessary parts, of us. Adult children may confuse their observer self with a kind of defense they may have used to avoid their Real Self and all of its feelings. One might call this defense “false observer self” since its awareness is clouded. It is unfocused as it “spaces” or “numbs out.” It denies and distorts our Child Within, and is often judgmental.

~ Charles L. Whitfield

...in the lower self, love is neediness, “chemistry” or infatuation, possession, strong admiration, or even worship—in short, traditional romantic love. Many people who grew up in troubled homes and who experienced a stifling of their Child Within become stuck at these lower levels or ways of experiencing love.

~ Charles L. Whitfield

Healing can be a long and winding road or a straightforward march to the finish line.

~ Alice Mccall

Images have enormous power, and images freed from deep within ourselves can change us profoundly.

~ Alice Mccall

The thing is, I'm not the only one this consciousness stuff is happening to.

~ Sara Wiseman

Keep exploring, you will discover new path.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

May God’s grace abound to you for every good work.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

Evil originates not in the absence of guilt, but in our effort to escape it.

~ Shannon L. Alder

People seek light in the external darkness Not knowing that the Light is within.Close your physical eyes and see with your inner vision.Open your eyes and see what before was invisible to you.

~ Raphael Zernoff

Horror. I can't manage it. I become--well--horrified. Self-help books have a similar effect. When asked, Any literary genre you simply can't be bothered with? - (By the Book: Writers on Literature and the Literary Life from the NYT Book Review, by Pamela Paul)

~ Emma Thompson

Holding onto anger is like carrying a bucket of poison. Every step you walk, it splashes onto yourself and others. When you finally reach the one who deserves it, you have poisoned yourself and many other innocent people.

~ Dean Henryson

There is an opportunity cost in every action.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita