Self,help Quotes Page 2

That which offends you only weakens you.

Being offended creates the same destructive energy that offended you in the first place- so transcend your ego and stay in peace.

If you really put a small value upon yourself, rest assured that the world will not raise your price. Pay no attention to what the critics say. A statue has never been erected in honor of a critic.

Lucid dreaming has considerable potential for promoting personal growth and self-development, enhancing self-confidence, improving mental and physical health, facilitating creative problem solving and helping you to progress on the path to self-mastery.

Am I getting nobler, better, more helpful, more humble, as I get older? Am I exhibiting the life that men take knowledge of as having been with Jesus, or am I getting more self-assertive, more deliberately determined to have my own way? It is a great thing to tell yourself the truth.

It's okay to learn from every experience, and it's okay to make mistakes.

My love for traveling to islands amounts to a pathological condition known as nesomania, an obsession with islands. This craze seems reasonable to me, because islands are small self-contained worlds that can help us understand larger ones.

Vitally important for a young man or woman is, first, to realize the value of education and then to cultivate earnestly, aggressively, ceaselessly, the habit of self-education.

There is no such thing as a self-made man. You will reach your goals only with the help of others.

There is no such thing as a self-made man. You will reach your goals only with the help of others.

Your personal philosophy is the greatest determining factor in how your life works out.

The world is a great mirror. It reflects back to you what you are. If you are loving, if you are friendly, if you are helpful, the world will prove loving and friendly and helpful to you. The world is what you are.

Don't wait for some miracle to be performed on you from without, lifting you above your fears and doubts and self-centeredness. You help God from within by turning in outgoing love to others, and miraculously your fears and doubts and self-centeredness will vanish. The miracle starts within, not from without.

None of us can help the things life has done to us.

They’re done before you realize it, and once they’re done they make you do other things until at last everything comes between you and what you’d like to be, and you’ve lost your true self forever.

If you want to learn something that will really help you, learn to see yourself as God sees you and not as you see yourself in the distorted mirror of your own self-importance.

What matters is not the idea a man holds, but the depth at which he holds it.

Learn how to say no. Don't let your mouth overload your back.

Life is complex. Each one of us must make his own path through life. There are no self-help manuals, no formulas, no easy answers. The right road for one is the wrong road for another...The journey of life is not paved in blacktop; it is not brightly lit, and it has no road signs. It is a rocky path through the wilderness.

Hold a true friend with both your hands.

You have so much pain inside yourself that you try & hurt yourself on the outside because you want help.

The central purpose of the Work that Reconnects is to help people uncover and experience their innate connections with each other and with the systemic, self-healing powers of the web of life, so that they may be enlivened and motivated to play their part in creating a sustainable civilization.

When a man imagines, even after years of striving, that he has attained perfection, his decline begins.

Believe you can do it. Believing something can be done puts your mind to work for you and helps you find ways to do it.

The spirit of brotherhood recognizes of necessity both the need of self-help and also the need of helping others in the only way which every ultimately does great god, that is, of helping them to help themselves.

If you overcome your fear to ask someone for a date, a raise, or help with a project, that is an act of self-assertiveness. You are moving out into life rather than contracting and withdrawing.

All we have to do is to receive what we are given.

..We are given the naturalness to love someone, to be calm in crisis, to ignore self-defeating suggestions, to be pleasant, forgiving, tender, helpful, unworried, brave, energetic.

Of all the judgments we pass in life, none is more important than the judgment we pass on ourselves.

I really don't know how to be anyone else, and whenever I try to be anyone else, I fail miserably. Or I disappoint myself. It doesn't build my self-esteem, and it doesn't help me grow me at all.

We work on ourselves in order to help others, but also we help others in order to work on ourselves.

Don't mistake movement for achievement.

It's easy to get faked out by being busy. The question is: Busy doing what?

My especial object is to help the poor; the rich can help themselves. I believe in self-made men.

Radiate an energy of serenity and peace so that you have an uplifting effect on those you come into contact with.

No kind action ever stops with itself.

One kind action leads to another. Good example is followed. A single act of kindness throws out roots in all directions, and the roots spring up and make new trees. The greatest work that kindness does to others is that it makes them kind themselves.

Love is contagious. When I share love, it comes back to me multiplied. Love opens every door.

Learn how to separate the majors and the minors.

A lot of people don't do well simply because they major in minor things.

Nothing is poorer than a truth expressed as it was thought.

Committed to writing in such cases, it is not even a bad photograph. Truth wants to be startled abruptly, at one stroke, from her self-immersion, whether by uproar, music or cries for help.