Quotes about Self-improvement

To be getting an education means this: to be learning what is your own, and what is not your own.

Worry a little bit every day and in a lifetime you will lose a couple of years. If something is wrong, fix it if you can. But train yourself not to worry: Worry never fixes anything.

If you want things to be different, perhaps the answer is to become different yourself.

The most important task of your life is not what you do, but who you become.

All this is to say that it's not your fault that you're fucked up. It's your fault if you stay fucked up, but the foundation of your fuckedupedness is something that's been passed down through generations of your family, like a coat of arms or a killer cornbread recipe, or in my case, equating confrontation with heart failure. When

Figure out which affirmations you need to hear the most and repeat them all day long in your head, in the car, while you're walking down the street pretending to be on the phone, under your breathe in line at the DMV. Write them on Post-it notes and stick them around your house, on your mirrors, in your refrigerator, in your car. Write down your favorite affirmations ten times every morning and ten times every night before you go to bed and say them out loud. Here

It was about no longer being the kind of person who takes what she can get, and finally becoming the kind of person who creates exactly what she wants.

You don't have to hit rock bottom to make a change. You can just decide.

I was doing pretty well—I'd published a couple of books, had lots of great friends, a close family, an apartment, a car that ran, food, teeth, clothes, clean drinking water—compared to the majority of the planet, my life was a total cream puff. But compared to what I knew I was capable of, I was, shall we say, unimpressed.

You aren't a better person for feeling guilty or bad about yourself, just a sadder one.

The key here is to be specific and consistent—figure out what makes you feel the most mighty and make a habit of doing those things.

Be grateful for all you are and all that you're becoming.