Quotes About Self-improvement

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.

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.

How to be the best that you can be

Itulah, aku sadar, yang harus mulai kulakukan: berhenti berharap punya bakat yang lebih, dan mulai menggunakan bakat yang kumiliki sebaik mungkin.

You can only be in a bad mood for so long before you have to face up to the fact that it isn't a bad mood at all; it's just your sucky personality.

I'm sure everyone has something about themselves they'd like to change. To dance better, sing better, be stronger or taller. Zikhos snickered. The kings occasional touchiness about his height was well known. The king must have heard, because he said: In Zikhos's case: being smarter than a burnt steak.

dia ingin memastikan dirinya lebih baik dari orang lain. Sedangkan kau hanya ingin menjadi orang yang lebih baik... - Perkataan Aris Kepada Costis

One must not always think so much about what one should do, but rather what one should be. Our works do not ennoble us; but we must ennoble our works.

Up until that moment, I'd been at the earliest stage of love, when you feel it will turn you into the better person you want to be. Now, his gentle voice and sage advice took me to a later stage: I felt I needed to pretend to be a better person than I was so he'd keep loving me. This was hard because it made me hate him.

I said, What's your goal in life? and winced at how corny and earnest I sounded. He looked away. He thought. I guess I'm trying to become a better man than the one I'm hardwired to be.

You're correcting my grammar now? Yes, I'm helping you to be better. And I expect the same from you. What if I don't want to be better?' Then you'll be just a petulant, infinitive-splitting eavesdropper.

I'd already figured out that not understanding my failings was another one of my failings.

Up until that moment, I'd been at the earliest stage of love, when you feel it will turn you into the person you want to be. Now, his gentle voice and sage advice took me to a later stage: I felt I needed to pretend to be a better person than I was so he'd keep loving me. This was hard because it made me hate him.

Sometimes it's hard to hear when we've done something wrong. But we can learn from our mistakes.

Taking care of myself is a big job. No wonder I avoided it for so long. —ANONYMOUS

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.

Taking care of myself is a big job. No wonder I avoided it for so long.

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

But our real problems as codependents are our own characteristics—our codependent behaviors. Who's codependent? I am.

I believe we can successfully turn every aspect of our lives into a goal. If it bothers us, make it a goal. If we're aware something needs to be changed, make it a goal. If we want it, make it a goal.

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.

You have several significant flaws, including that once you are convinced you are capable of one thing of a certain scale, you are equally convinced you can handle more. You do not allow for their cumulative effects upon you. You are doing what you can.