Quotes About Self-improvement

Let's start with this statistic: You are delicious. Be brave, my sweet. I know you can get lonely. I know you can crave companionship and sex and love so badly that it physically hurts. But I truly believe that the only way you can find out that there's something better out there is to first believe there's something better out there. What other choice is there?

There was still hope. I still had a chance to resurrect myself. I'd just have to do it consciously, every step of the way.

so that people don't have to learn these things on their own, but ironically, their founders and instructors are often teaching themselves how to teach.

You can't be perfect unless you're alone, and then guess what? You're alone. So you're still not perfect.

You can't help people more than they want to help themselves.

Envision someone else, someone better than you. Stronger. Smarter. Tougher. Then do what that guy would do.

I love to read. My education is self-inflicted

We can learn from the ad agencies and start forming our own personal and internal marketing campaigns in the first person singular with strong emotional components, thusly promoting the new ideas and habits that we want to incorporate.

You can't take it personally when something you have written sucks. Just delete it and write something else.

For years I tried to help people with simple things, such as tension relief through breathing and relaxation, but all they wanted were the drugs. They wanted to numb themselves. They did not want to face their fears or feel better through their own efforts—and they certainly did not want to be illuminated.

If you want to increase your self-confidence as a yoga teacher very fast – go out there, face your fears, and teach as much as you possibly can!

C'est plus facile de se détruire à petit feu que d'avoir le courage de se remettre en cause.

Kada se gledaš u ogledalu i želiš da ga razbiješ, nije ogledalo to što treba da bude slomljeno, nego si ti taj, koji treba da se promeni. ~ Nepoznat autor ~

It was never too late to exchange the things you believed defined you for something better.

You are here having realized the necessity of contending with yourself; then thank everyone who provides an opportunity.

Sometimes getting upset with yourself is necessary when you face the truth.

All people have the mission of overcoming themselves. Anyone who is overcome by others has failed in his mission; anyone who fails in his mission will be overcome by others. If one overcomes oneself, other people don't notice; if, however, one overcomes others, then the sky turns red and the man in the streets calls the phenomenon progress.

the difference between constantly feeling you have to prove yourself, and feeling free to improve yourself.

Toute relation soumise à une pression, même si son but est d'essayer de raccommoder les choses, finit toujours par se disloquer. Nous pouvons apprendre à faire mieux qu'à nous laisser diriger par cet esprit du moi malavisé. Nous pouvons apprendre à nous distancer de ses manigances autodestructrices.

The optimal mental state for training in is called "the flow state", most famously defined by Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi in his 1988 book Flow. Buy it, read it, you won't regret it. This book made me realise that the thing I was really trying to teach most of my students was how to develop an autotelic personality, which means a person who is able to set their own goals.

You don't have to enjoy life, you simply have to do the best you can at it. Because every day you wake up and see yourself in the mirror, and that reflection is something you can never get away from. Not ever.

The only true measure of success is the ratio between what we might have done and what we might have been on the one hand, and the thing we have made and the things we have made of ourselves on the other.

Let the refining and improving of your own life keep you so busy that you have little time to criticize others.

I simply want to fix me, so we can fix us.