Quotes about Self-improvement

People that trust wholly to other's charity, and without industry of their own, will always be poor.

The better you understand yourself the less cause you will find to love yourself.

Do you want to get . . . sober? Solvent? Educated? Better? Do you want to get in shape? Over your past? Beyond your upbringing? Do you want to get stronger, healthier, happier? Would you like to leave Bethesda in the rearview mirror? Are you ready for a new day, a new way? Are you ready to get unstuck?

We do our way into better feelings. We do not feel our way into better doing.

There are certain things no one can do for you.

Sister, change everything you don't like about your life. But when you come to a thing you can't change, then change the way you think about it. You'll see it new, and maybe a new way to change it.

I want to thank each person who has the courage to push through and past the set of coping behaviors we've come to label as codependency—who learn what it means to take care of themselves. "Nobody taught me how to take care of myself," a fifty-year-old woman told me recently. "I didn't have enough money to go to therapy, but I had enough to buy a book.

Don't give up hope. It took many of us twenty years or more to acquire these protective behaviors we umbrella with the word codependency. It may take as much time as that to let go of them.

On our worst days, we still look for something we've done toward recovery. Sometimes the best we can do is feel good about what we did not do.

God, help me face and solve my problems today. Help me do my part and let the rest go. I can learn to be a problem-solver

We can evaluate our behavior. We can make decisions about what we need and want. We can figure out what our problems are and what we need to do to solve them.

The trick to dealing with criticism is letting it do it's good work but forbidding it to demoralize and destroy or to embitter.