self-improvement

Link	Quote	Tags	Author
4f04dce	Make the most of yourself....for that is all there is of you.	be-yourself inspirational self-improvement	Ralph Waldo Emerson
f6d592e	Always dream and shoot higher than you know you can do. Do not bother just to be better than your contemporaries or predecessors. Try to be better than yourself.	personality inspirational perfectionism potential self-improvement	William Faulkner
1cfb447	Once we accept our limits, we go beyond them.	self-knowledge inspirational self-improvement	Albert Einstein
662f2e6	No matter who you are, no matter what you did, no matter where you've come from, you can always change, become a better version of yourself.	change inspirational self-actualization self-improvement	Madonna
7f0ccfd	What we call our destiny is truly our character and that character can be altered. The knowledge that we are responsible for our actions and attitudes does not need to be discouraging, because it also means that we are free to change this destiny. One is not in bondage to the past, which has shaped our feelings, to race, inheritance, background. All this can be altered if we have the courage to examine how it formed us. We can alter the chemistry provided we have the courage to dissect the elements.	responsibility courage destiny empowerment self-improvement self-control	Anais Nin
271e2ab	When you see a good person, think of becoming like her/him. When you see someone not so good, reflect on your own weak points.	helpful karma inspirational self-improvement introspection	Confucius
eebea0a	I do not believe in taking the right decision, I take a decision and make it right.	self-awareness inspirational positive-attitude self-confidence self-improvement	Muhammad Ali Jinnah
aef99ea	"Certainly the most destructive vice if you like, that a person can have. More than pride, which is supposedly the number one of the cardinal sins - is self pity. Self pity is the worst possible emotion anyone can have. And the most destructive. It is, to slightly paraphrase what Wilde said about hatred, and I think actually hatred's a subset of self pity and not the other way around - ' It destroys everything around it, except itself '.	relationships depression morality happiness depression-humor the-key-to-happiness oscar-wilde marriage-advice sins self-pity narcissism self-improvement pride vice self-help sin	Stephen Fry
9673fde	She hoped to be wise and reasonable in time; but alas! Alas! She must confess to herself that she was not wise yet.	self-awareness self-improvement	Jane Austen
9f5f37d	He who conquers himself is the mightiest warrior.	ancient-china ancient-chinese conquers philosophical philosophy inspirational chinese body training ancient fighting warrior self-realization self-improvement proverb	Confucius
61f3913	I will eliminate hatred, envy, jealousy, selfishness, and cynicism, by developing love for all humanity, because I know that a negative attitude toward others can never bring me success. I will cause others to believe in me, because I will believe in them, and in myself.	success self-improvement	Napoleon Hill
7dfac29	We become what we want to be by consistently being what we want to become each day.	self-determination religious inspirational self-improvement	Richard G. Scott
cec2b1c	Everything is within your power	change empowered empowerment encourae-yourself encourage-yourself encouraging-quotes innate-wisdom inspiring inspiring-quote positive positive-quote positive-thinking positivity power-of-the-subconscious-mind powerful-quotes powerful-words self-empowered self-healing self-help-inspiration self-help-motivator self-help-quotes spiritual-quote strength strong-willed strong-women motivational spiritual inspirational strength-of-mind change-your-mind power-of-women strength-of-spirit change-life strong-will encouragement-quotes law-of-attraction change-quotes inspiring-quotes strong-woman power-of-will encouragement-and-attitude powerful-women motivational-quotes encouraging spiritual-wisdom inner-strength motivating subconscious personal-development uplifting encouragement self-empowerment change-the-world change-your-life self-help-quote self-improvement power-of-thoughts strong powerful power self-help	Janice Trachtman
c9df7d0	Meditation is a way to be narcissistic without hurting anyone	enlightenment narcissism self-absorption meditation self-realization self-improvement	Nassim Nicholas Taleb
18a9771	Bill Gates (and his successor at Microsoft, Ray Ozzie) are famous for taking annual reading vacations. During the year they deliberately cultivate a stack of reading material--much of it unrelated to their day-to-day focus at Microsoft--and then they take off for a week or two and do a deep dive into the words they've stockpiled. By compressing their intake into a matter of days, they give new ideas additional opportunities to network among themselves, for the simple reason that it's easier to remember something that you read yesterday than it is to remember something you read six months ago.	reading inspiration innocencevation self-improvement ideas	Steven Johnson
bbaedea	IF - and this is the greatest of them all - I had the courage to see myself as I reallyam, I would find out what is wrong with me, and correct it, then I might have a chance to profit by my mistakes and learn something from the experience of others,for I know that there is something WRONG with me, or I would now be where I WOULD HAVE BEEN IF I had spent more time analyzing my weaknesses, and less time building alibis to cover them.	success weakness mistakes self-improvement self-help	Napoleon Hill
020ea2c	Losing a belief in free will has not made me fatalistic--in fact, it has increased my feelings of freedom. My hopes, fears, and neuroses seem less personal and indelible. There is no telling how much I might change in the future. Just as one wouldn't draw a lasting conclusion about oneself on the basis of a brief experience of indigestion, one needn't do so on the basis of how one has thought or behaved for vast stretches of time in the past. A creative change of inputs to the system--learning new skills, forming new relationships, adopting new habits of attention--may radically transform one's life.	free-will inspiration philosophy determinism self-improvement	Sam Harris
16e5dd3	"If you give up before your goal has been reached, you are a "quitter." A QUITTER NEVER WINS AND A WINNER NEVER QUITS. Lift this sentence out, write it on a piece of paper in letters an inch high, and place it where you will see it every night before you go to sleep, and every morning before you go to work"	self-improvement	Napoleon Hill
6cf3557	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?	positive-thinking self-improvement self-help	Barbara Ehrenreich
c69914f	Refrain to-night; And that shall lend a kind of easiness To the next abstinence, the next more easy; For use almost can change the stamp of nature, And either master the devil or throw him out With wondrous potency.	uprightness priorities self-improvement self-control	William Shakespeare
a205d25	Legendary innovators like Franklin, Snow, and Darwin all possess some common intellectual qualities--a certain quickness of mind, unbounded curiosity--but they also share one other defining attribute. They have a lot of hobbies.	hobbies innovation self-improvement	Steven Johnson
487491a	Such is the strength of the burden of habit. Here I have the power to be but do not wish it. There I wish to be but lacks the power. On both grounds, I'm in misery.	self-improvement will	St. Augustine of Hippo
4958586	I utilise all my spare moments. I've read twenty-seven of the Hundred Best Books. I collect ferns.	reading self-improvement	Max Beerbohm
80dcd60	I am what I am today because of the choices I made yesterday,	habits self-improvement	Stephen R. Covey
c37acc7	"Is it not curious, that so vast a being as the whale should see the world through so small an eye, and hear the thunder through an ear which is smaller than a hare's? But if his eyes were broad as the lens of Herschel's great telescope; and his ears capacious as the porches of cathedrals; would that make him any longer of sight, or sharper of hearing? Not at all.--Why then do you try to "enlarge" your mind? Subtilize it."	self-improvement knowledge	Herman Melville
1dd90c7	The self is also a creation, the principal work of your life, the crafting of which makes everyone an artist.	work self-improvement creativity	Rebecca Solnit
4e672e1	My emotional state is determined by where my attention goes.	motivation self-improvement	Elizabeth Grace Saunders
8470803	If you've got it, flaunt it. And if you don't got it? Flaunt it. 'Cause what are we even doing here if we're not flaunting it?	self self-improvement self-esteem	Mindy Kaling
a9fa838	"Take a few minutes now and see your current circumstances- your physical condition, your emotional condition, your possessions, your financial condition, where and how you live, your relationships, the situations surrounding your life, and the way you believe other people see you- as mirrors showing you "Who You Are."	dependency addiction-and-recovery passages-ventura passages-malibu chris-prentiss self-improvement self-help	Chris Prentiss
f7eb3c8	Don't let anyone tell you that introverts are anti-social - we are just differently social.	self-improvement self-help	Susan Cain
018e9b3	Suffering is the fuel in the engine of civilization. Now he begins to understand: because pain is a god--he has been in the grip of this cruel god ever since Anakin's death. But it is also a teacher, and a bridge. It can be a slave master, and break you--and it can be the power that makes you unbreakable. It is all these things, and more. At the same time. What it is depends on who you are. But who am I? he wonders. I've been running like Dad--like Anakin. I think they stopped, though; I think Dad was strong enough to turn back and face it, to use the pain to make himself stronger, like Mom and Uncle Luke. Anakin did, too, at the end. Am I that strong? There's only one way to find out.	pain suffering strength self-discovery self-realization self-improvement	Matthew Woodring Stover
e2e6353	"When you devote your life to "finding yourself," you probably won't."	women feminist womens-rights self-improvement self-help	Laura Schlessinger
5e3060f	Understand something people, we will be hated by many in the name of Christ, ridiculed, mocked, stoned, slaughtered. We will be fined, jailed and killed for our love for Christ. You are supposed to see better with your eyes today, how close this is happening, just prepare your heart and soul to be braver than Peter and not deny Christ in the moment your life might be in jeopardy for Him and what you believe. Apostle Pauls says to live is Christ to die is gain.	money words time pain love-quotes literature marriage mind grief feminism loss history reading prayer nature world depression people women freedom dream joy future politics friends leadership quote work inspirational-quotes life-quotes living motivation family destiny imagination fantasy dreams sadness positive-thinking strength music friendship motivational spiritual heart endtime fiction-food-for-though humanity-humour intelligence-is-attractive life-and-living-life-philosophy magic-spirit meditation-men passion-peace patience-johnson pentecost reality-relationship trust-war earning motivational-quotes repentance wisdom-quotes society purpose quotes forgiveness self-improvement power self-help soul patience psychology	Patience Johnson
e40cdea	If you don't contradict yourself on a regular basis, then you're not thinking.	leadership leadership-development leadership-quotes self-improvement	John C Maxwell
a72de62	We may believe that anxiety and fear don't concern us because we avoid experiencing them. We may keep the scope of our lives narrow and familiar, opting for sameness and safety. We may not even know that we are scared of success, failure, rejection, criticism, conflict, competition, intimacy, or adventure, because we rarely test the limits of our competence and creativity. We avoid anxiety by avoiding risk and change. Our challenge: To be willing to become more anxious, via embracing new situations and stepping more fully into our lives.	fear brave self-improvement shame guilt psychology	Harriet Lerner
fbcbd33	What we call coincidences, accidental and remarkable events occurring at the same time, are actually circumstances and events that have come into your life to serve a purpose is to benefit you.	inspiration inspire motivation coincidences passages-ventura passages-malibu chris-prentiss goals self-improvement self-help	Chris Prentiss
2b30b9d	Believe that is cure is possible for you. Discover and heal the underlying causes with a holistic recovery program. Adopt a philosophy based on what is true in the Universe.	universe sobriety freedom inspiration inspire change happiness life philosophy wisdom good-books alcohol-addiction-treatment curing-addiction drug-addiction-treatment recommended-reading renew sober-living treatment-program holistic-treatment addiction-free non12step holistic-health non-12-step passages-ventura passages-malibu addiction-cure addiction-treatment-center chris-prentiss sober healing change-the-world health self-improvement self-help	Chris Prentiss
bcf1f56	The world actually is a mirror, and as you change, you will see everything around you changing as well as mirroring your changes.	dependency passages-malibu chris-prentiss self-improvement self-help	Chris Prentiss
9bce623	The moment you make the internal changes necessary to obtain your goal, the outside world changes instantly.	philosophy passages-malibu philosophy-of-life self-improvement self-help	Chris Prentiss
2de9d74	If you have experienced recurring situations in your life that are unpleasant, know that there is something you are supposed to be getting from those situations that you have not been getting and that the moment you get it, those situations will pass out of your life, not to return.	philosophy life-improvement passages-malibu chris-prentiss philosophy-of-life self-improvement self-help	Chris Prentiss
4f244c4	A diminished self-image will cause you to slouch, to avoid meeting others, to avoid looking others in the eye, to be unassertive, and to be indecisive.	relationships self-improvement self-image	Chris Prentiss
3a1a63a	From this moment forward, I am in control of every situation. I will always know the exact right action to take, and this is so. I will now obtain vibrant good health. I will have the possessions I want, I now have the power and wisdom to bring this about, and this is so. I will have peace and harmony in my life. I will have love and abundance, and this is so. I now claim all these things for my own from this time forward.	meditate meditation self-improvement	Chris Prentiss
73b84cd	Change starts with awareness.	relationships self-improvement	Chris Prentiss
646a614	To preserve what you have, to keep your relationships alive and glowing, give generously- give of your time, you assets, your attention, your help, and your love. Give of yourself.	relationships laws-of-love self-improvement	Chris Prentiss
6b2175c	Trustworthy partners always think first before they do anything that may affect either the reputation or well-being of each other.	relationships trustworthy self-improvement	Chris Prentiss
ef5628e	I believe that the secret to becoming successful in life is taking it one step at a time, do not look at the challenge just concentrate on getting through each step at a time, learning from your mistakes as you go forward. By doing this, you will reach your goal. Remember, quitters never win and winners never quit. Also, I can do all things through Christ who strengthens me.	cookbooks making-whiteboards superfoods writing-ebooks writing-books cooking health self-improvement	Glen Goodrum
f9e8572	I must assume that knowing is better than not know, venturing better than not venturing; and that magic and illusion, however rich, however alluring, ultimately weaken the human spirit. I take with deep seriousness Thomas Hardy's words, 'If a way to the Better there be, it exacts a full look at the Worst.	reality truth practicality psychotherapy self-improvement	Irvin D. Yalom
51ac97a	I can bear to hear of imputed or real errors. The man who wishes to stand well in the opinion of others must do this, because he is thereby enabled to correct his faults or remove the prejudices which are imbibed against him.	self-improvement	Ron Chernow
0f5f65e	If you go to Jesus to get a new personality, Lewis says, you still haven't really gone to Jesus. Your real self will not come out as long as you are looking for it; it will only emerge when you're looking for Him.	jesus faith self self-improvement	Timothy J. Keller
1994233	"I do want something more. I'm not content to be happy, that's not what I'm cut out to be, not what fate intended for me. I'm destined to be the very opposite. I had more than my fair share of unhappiness but my unhappiness was stupid, barren... Because if I wanted to die, and I did, I ought not to have been so afraid of death. The unhappiness I'm in need of and longing for is different. It's of a kind that will make me hunger for suffering and lust for death. That's the sort of unhappiness, or happiness, I am waiting for.	suicide suffering motivation inspirational happyness self-improvement	Hermann Hesse
a3f4a40	One might say that the ability to evaluate one's own ability is the most important skill of all. Without it, improvement is impossible.	self-improvement	Ryan Holiday

Make the most of yourself....for that is all there is of you.

be-yourself inspirational self-improvement

Ralph Waldo Emerson

f6d592e

Always dream and shoot higher than you know you can do. Do not bother just to be better than your contemporaries or predecessors. Try to be better than yourself.

personality inspirational perfectionism potential self-improvement

William Faulkner

1cfb447

Once we accept our limits, we go beyond them.

self-knowledge inspirational self-improvement

Albert Einstein

662f2e6

No matter who you are, no matter what you did, no matter where you've come from, you can always change, become a better version of yourself.

change inspirational self-actualization self-improvement

Madonna

7f0ccfd

What we call our destiny is truly our character and that character can be altered. The knowledge that we are responsible for our actions and attitudes does not need to be discouraging, because it also means that we are free to change this destiny. One is not in bondage to the past, which has shaped our feelings, to race, inheritance, background. All this can be altered if we have the courage to examine how it formed us. We can alter the chemistry provided we have the courage to dissect the elements.

responsibility courage destiny empowerment self-improvement self-control

Anais Nin

271e2ab

When you see a good person, think of becoming like her/him. When you see someone not so good, reflect on your own weak points.

helpful karma inspirational self-improvement introspection

Confucius

eebea0a

I do not believe in taking the right decision, I take a decision and make it right.

self-awareness inspirational positive-attitude self-confidence self-improvement

Muhammad Ali Jinnah

aef99ea

"Certainly the most destructive vice if you like, that a person can have. More than pride, which is supposedly the number one of the cardinal sins - is self pity. Self pity is the worst possible emotion anyone can have. And the most destructive. It is, to slightly paraphrase what Wilde said about hatred, and I think actually hatred's a subset of self pity and not the other way around - ' It destroys everything around it, except itself '.

relationships depression morality happiness depression-humor the-key-to-happiness oscar-wilde marriage-advice sins self-pity narcissism self-improvement pride vice self-help sin

Stephen Fry

9673fde

She hoped to be wise and reasonable in time; but alas! Alas! She must confess to herself that she was not wise yet.

self-awareness self-improvement

Jane Austen

9f5f37d

He who conquers himself is the mightiest warrior.

ancient-china ancient-chinese conquers philosophical philosophy inspirational chinese body training ancient fighting warrior self-realization self-improvement proverb

Confucius

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I will eliminate hatred, envy, jealousy, selfishness, and cynicism, by developing love for all humanity, because I know that a negative attitude toward others can never bring me success. I will cause others to believe in me, because I will believe in them, and in myself.

success self-improvement

Napoleon Hill

7dfac29

We become what we want to be by consistently being what we want to become each day.

self-determination religious inspirational self-improvement

Richard G. Scott

cec2b1c

Everything is within your power

change empowered empowerment encourae-yourself encourage-yourself encouraging-quotes innate-wisdom inspiring inspiring-quote positive positive-quote positive-thinking positivity power-of-the-subconscious-mind powerful-quotes powerful-words self-empowered self-healing self-help-inspiration self-help-motivator self-help-quotes spiritual-quote strength strong-willed strong-women motivational spiritual inspirational strength-of-mind change-your-mind power-of-women strength-of-spirit change-life strong-will encouragement-quotes law-of-attraction change-quotes inspiring-quotes strong-woman power-of-will encouragement-and-attitude powerful-women motivational-quotes encouraging spiritual-wisdom inner-strength motivating subconscious personal-development uplifting encouragement self-empowerment change-the-world change-your-life self-help-quote self-improvement power-of-thoughts strong powerful power self-help

Janice Trachtman

c9df7d0

Meditation is a way to be narcissistic without hurting anyone

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Nassim Nicholas Taleb

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Bill Gates (and his successor at Microsoft, Ray Ozzie) are famous for taking annual reading vacations. During the year they deliberately cultivate a stack of reading material--much of it unrelated to their day-to-day focus at Microsoft--and then they take off for a week or two and do a deep dive into the words they've stockpiled. By compressing their intake into a matter of days, they give new ideas additional opportunities to network among themselves, for the simple reason that it's easier to remember something that you read yesterday than it is to remember something you read six months ago.

reading inspiration innocencevation self-improvement ideas

Steven Johnson

bbaedea

IF - and this is the greatest of them all - I had the courage to see myself as I reallyam, I would find out what is wrong with me, and correct it, then I might have a chance to profit by my mistakes and learn something from the experience of others,for I know that there is something WRONG with me, or I would now be where I WOULD HAVE BEEN IF I had spent more time analyzing my weaknesses, and less time building alibis to cover them.

success weakness mistakes self-improvement self-help

Napoleon Hill

020ea2c

Losing a belief in free will has not made me fatalistic--in fact, it has increased my feelings of freedom. My hopes, fears, and neuroses seem less personal and indelible. There is no telling how much I might change in the future. Just as one wouldn't draw a lasting conclusion about oneself on the basis of a brief experience of indigestion, one needn't do so on the basis of how one has thought or behaved for vast stretches of time in the past. A creative change of inputs to the system--learning new skills, forming new relationships, adopting new habits of attention--may radically transform one's life.

free-will inspiration philosophy determinism self-improvement

Sam Harris

16e5dd3

"If you give up before your goal has been reached, you are a "quitter." A QUITTER NEVER WINS AND A WINNER NEVER QUITS. Lift this sentence out, write it on a piece of paper in letters an inch high, and place it where you will see it every night before you go to sleep, and every morning before you go to work"

self-improvement

Napoleon Hill

6cf3557

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?

positive-thinking self-improvement self-help

Barbara Ehrenreich

c69914f

Refrain to-night; And that shall lend a kind of easiness To the next abstinence, the next more easy; For use almost can change the stamp of nature, And either master the devil or throw him out With wondrous potency.

uprightness priorities self-improvement self-control

William Shakespeare

a205d25

Legendary innovators like Franklin, Snow, and Darwin all possess some common intellectual qualities--a certain quickness of mind, unbounded curiosity--but they also share one other defining attribute. They have a lot of hobbies.

hobbies innovation self-improvement

Steven Johnson

487491a

Such is the strength of the burden of habit. Here I have the power to be but do not wish it. There I wish to be but lacks the power. On both grounds, I'm in misery.

self-improvement will

St. Augustine of Hippo

4958586

I utilise all my spare moments. I've read twenty-seven of the Hundred Best Books. I collect ferns.

reading self-improvement

Max Beerbohm

80dcd60

I am what I am today because of the choices I made yesterday,

habits self-improvement

Stephen R. Covey

c37acc7

"Is it not curious, that so vast a being as the whale should see the world through so small an eye, and hear the thunder through an ear which is smaller than a hare's? But if his eyes were broad as the lens of Herschel's great telescope; and his ears capacious as the porches of cathedrals; would that make him any longer of sight, or sharper of hearing? Not at all.--Why then do you try to "enlarge" your mind? Subtilize it."

self-improvement knowledge

Herman Melville

1dd90c7

The self is also a creation, the principal work of your life, the crafting of which makes everyone an artist.

work self-improvement creativity

Rebecca Solnit

4e672e1

My emotional state is determined by where my attention goes.

motivation self-improvement

Elizabeth Grace Saunders

8470803

If you've got it, flaunt it. And if you don't got it? Flaunt it. 'Cause what are we even doing here if we're not flaunting it?

self self-improvement self-esteem

Mindy Kaling

a9fa838

"Take a few minutes now and see your current circumstances- your physical condition, your emotional condition, your possessions, your financial condition, where and how you live, your relationships, the situations surrounding your life, and the way you believe other people see you- as mirrors showing you "Who You Are."

dependency addiction-and-recovery passages-ventura passages-malibu chris-prentiss self-improvement self-help

Chris Prentiss

f7eb3c8

Don't let anyone tell you that introverts are anti-social - we are just differently social.

self-improvement self-help

Susan Cain

018e9b3

Suffering is the fuel in the engine of civilization. Now he begins to understand: because pain is a god--he has been in the grip of this cruel god ever since Anakin's death. But it is also a teacher, and a bridge. It can be a slave master, and break you--and it can be the power that makes you unbreakable. It is all these things, and more. At the same time. What it is depends on who you are. But who am I? he wonders. I've been running like Dad--like Anakin. I think they stopped, though; I think Dad was strong enough to turn back and face it, to use the pain to make himself stronger, like Mom and Uncle Luke. Anakin did, too, at the end. Am I that strong? There's only one way to find out.

pain suffering strength self-discovery self-realization self-improvement

Matthew Woodring Stover

e2e6353

"When you devote your life to "finding yourself," you probably won't."

women feminist womens-rights self-improvement self-help

Laura Schlessinger

5e3060f

Understand something people, we will be hated by many in the name of Christ, ridiculed, mocked, stoned, slaughtered. We will be fined, jailed and killed for our love for Christ. You are supposed to see better with your eyes today, how close this is happening, just prepare your heart and soul to be braver than Peter and not deny Christ in the moment your life might be in jeopardy for Him and what you believe. Apostle Pauls says to live is Christ to die is gain.

money words time pain love-quotes literature marriage mind grief feminism loss history reading prayer nature world depression people women freedom dream joy future politics friends leadership quote work inspirational-quotes life-quotes living motivation family destiny imagination fantasy dreams sadness positive-thinking strength music friendship motivational spiritual heart endtime fiction-food-for-though humanity-humour intelligence-is-attractive life-and-living-life-philosophy magic-spirit meditation-men passion-peace patience-johnson pentecost reality-relationship trust-war earning motivational-quotes repentance wisdom-quotes society purpose quotes forgiveness self-improvement power self-help soul patience psychology

Patience Johnson

e40cdea

If you don't contradict yourself on a regular basis, then you're not thinking.

leadership leadership-development leadership-quotes self-improvement

John C Maxwell

a72de62

We may believe that anxiety and fear don't concern us because we avoid experiencing them. We may keep the scope of our lives narrow and familiar, opting for sameness and safety. We may not even know that we are scared of success, failure, rejection, criticism, conflict, competition, intimacy, or adventure, because we rarely test the limits of our competence and creativity. We avoid anxiety by avoiding risk and change. Our challenge: To be willing to become more anxious, via embracing new situations and stepping more fully into our lives.

fear brave self-improvement shame guilt psychology

Harriet Lerner

fbcbd33

What we call coincidences, accidental and remarkable events occurring at the same time, are actually circumstances and events that have come into your life to serve a purpose is to benefit you.

inspiration inspire motivation coincidences passages-ventura passages-malibu chris-prentiss goals self-improvement self-help

Chris Prentiss

2b30b9d

Believe that is cure is possible for you. Discover and heal the underlying causes with a holistic recovery program. Adopt a philosophy based on what is true in the Universe.

universe sobriety freedom inspiration inspire change happiness life philosophy wisdom good-books alcohol-addiction-treatment curing-addiction drug-addiction-treatment recommended-reading renew sober-living treatment-program holistic-treatment addiction-free non12step holistic-health non-12-step passages-ventura passages-malibu addiction-cure addiction-treatment-center chris-prentiss sober healing change-the-world health self-improvement self-help

Chris Prentiss

bcf1f56

The world actually is a mirror, and as you change, you will see everything around you changing as well as mirroring your changes.

dependency passages-malibu chris-prentiss self-improvement self-help

Chris Prentiss

9bce623

The moment you make the internal changes necessary to obtain your goal, the outside world changes instantly.

philosophy passages-malibu philosophy-of-life self-improvement self-help

Chris Prentiss

2de9d74

If you have experienced recurring situations in your life that are unpleasant, know that there is something you are supposed to be getting from those situations that you have not been getting and that the moment you get it, those situations will pass out of your life, not to return.

philosophy life-improvement passages-malibu chris-prentiss philosophy-of-life self-improvement self-help

Chris Prentiss

4f244c4

A diminished self-image will cause you to slouch, to avoid meeting others, to avoid looking others in the eye, to be unassertive, and to be indecisive.

relationships self-improvement self-image

Chris Prentiss

3a1a63a

From this moment forward, I am in control of every situation. I will always know the exact right action to take, and this is so. I will now obtain vibrant good health. I will have the possessions I want, I now have the power and wisdom to bring this about, and this is so. I will have peace and harmony in my life. I will have love and abundance, and this is so. I now claim all these things for my own from this time forward.

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Chris Prentiss

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Change starts with awareness.

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Chris Prentiss

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To preserve what you have, to keep your relationships alive and glowing, give generously- give of your time, you assets, your attention, your help, and your love. Give of yourself.

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Chris Prentiss

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Trustworthy partners always think first before they do anything that may affect either the reputation or well-being of each other.

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Chris Prentiss

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I believe that the secret to becoming successful in life is taking it one step at a time, do not look at the challenge just concentrate on getting through each step at a time, learning from your mistakes as you go forward. By doing this, you will reach your goal. Remember, quitters never win and winners never quit. Also, I can do all things through Christ who strengthens me.

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Glen Goodrum

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I must assume that knowing is better than not know, venturing better than not venturing; and that magic and illusion, however rich, however alluring, ultimately weaken the human spirit. I take with deep seriousness Thomas Hardy's words, 'If a way to the Better there be, it exacts a full look at the Worst.

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Irvin D. Yalom

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I can bear to hear of imputed or real errors. The man who wishes to stand well in the opinion of others must do this, because he is thereby enabled to correct his faults or remove the prejudices which are imbibed against him.

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Ron Chernow

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If you go to Jesus to get a new personality, Lewis says, you still haven't really gone to Jesus. Your real self will not come out as long as you are looking for it; it will only emerge when you're looking for Him.

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Timothy J. Keller

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"I do want something more. I'm not content to be happy, that's not what I'm cut out to be, not what fate intended for me. I'm destined to be the very opposite. I had more than my fair share of unhappiness but my unhappiness was stupid, barren... Because if I wanted to die, and I did, I ought not to have been so afraid of death. The unhappiness I'm in need of and longing for is different. It's of a kind that will make me hunger for suffering and lust for death. That's the sort of unhappiness, or happiness, I am waiting for.

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Hermann Hesse

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One might say that the ability to evaluate one's own ability is the most important skill of all. Without it, improvement is impossible.

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Ryan Holiday