Nonfiction Self Help Quotes

If you can find time for [other] activities, you can make time for your goals. ~ Beverly K. Bachel

If all else fails, try to get some sleep…whether you realize it or not, getting enough sleep can make it easier to solve problems, control your emotions, and cope with change. ~ Beverly K. Bachel

The biggest regrets people have aren't about what they did, but what they didn't do. ~ Beverly K. Bachel

Spiritual assets make us more resilient to the trauma and difficult experiences life inevitably throws at us.

Since spiritual assets bring us closer to our Higher Power, we do not face the difficulties alone, and we may find a greater purpose and meaning within the stress & trauma. When we lean on our spiritual assets to get us through, the traumatic event becomes less destructive. Instead, it becomes transformative; we see the difficulties in a new light. ~ Daniel D. Maurer

Learning the way of grace is about truth. It's reconciling the truth, of both our own infinite value and of others' infinite value - despite our depths of
brokenness. ~ James Prescott

To make your goals savvy, keep them both personal (meaningful to you and aligned with your values) and positive (so you feel good about what you're trying to accomplish. ~ Beverly K. Bachel

Attitude plays a bigger role than you may imagine in determining your future success - bigger than talent, money, or popularity. ~ Beverly K. Bachel

Ask yourself exactly what you want in your life - now and in the future. If you were given the opportunity to do or have anything, what would it be, and why? ~ Beverly K. Bachel

There are 1,440 minutes in every day. How are you using yours? ~ Beverly K. Bachel

We're distracted and we let the door slam on the person behind us, we trip over curbs as we're texting, we're...sedentary, weighed down, collapsed over the laptop. ...We've forgotten how to move through life with grace. ~ Sarah L. Kaufman

No matter how much (or how little) help someone provides, always say thanks. Thank yous are simple but important. ~ Beverly K. Bachel

Your supporters can help you think in new ways, solve problems, and burst through barriers. ~ Beverly K. Bachel

Your values form the foundation of your life. They also form the foundation of your dreams. And just as each person's values are unique, so are each person's dreams. ~ Beverly K. Bachel

It is simply a confession that with all that I've seen in the last few years, all the events I've been invited to, and all the people whom I've met, I am less and less impressed by "impressive" things or people who are presented as having things figured out. I am impressed by people who are honest and kind. I am inspired by moments of vulnerability, moments of confession and compassion, moments where someone makes it clear that they are a person in need of other people and someone else makes it clear that the first person is not alone. ~ Jamie Tworkowski

You are a VIP, a very important person so take care with self care. If not you, who? If not now, when? ~ Toni Hawkins

Act as if everyone loves you.
Be in love with everyone.
Hug people with your words. ~ Jodi Livon

Life is very difficult. There's nothing to be ashamed of by reading self-help books. If you're stuck in a dark place it can be incredibly uplifting and hope providing to engage with those tools. So go out there and do it!! ~ Jim Dooley

Future shackled is when uncertainty is the enemy that must be beaten into submission. ~ Bill Jensen

Remember that you are sinners as abominable as the Publican, wherefore do you, as you have him for your pattern, go to God, confess, in all simple, honest, and self- abasing, your numerous and abominable sins; and be sure that in the very next place you forget not to ask for pardon, saying, "God be merciful to me a sinner." And remember that none but God can help you against, nor keep you from, the damnation and misery that comes by sin. ~ John Bunyan

We erect a statue in our own image inside ourselves - idealised, you know, but still recognisable - and then spend our lives engaged in the effort to make ourselves into its likeness. ~ John Banville

I start with something that makes me angry or confused, and then I write about it. It's a form of self-help. ~ Brian K. Vaughan

Too often students are being taught to read as if literature were some kind of ethics class or civics class - or worse, some kind of self-help manual. In fact, the important thing is the way the writer uses the language. ~ Francine Prose

The fastest way to get lost is to go on a guilt trip! ~ Stephen Richards

No one else sees you as the villain here, but you gotta stop being a victim babe. ~ Jordan Silver

Self-Empowerment is free to anyone who chooses to use it. It comes from within and nowhere else. You cannot buy it, borrow it, steal it or sell it. It is always available to you and never wears out. The only choice you have to make is whether or not you will use it. ~ Gary Hopkins

[I]t is useful at times to admit to yourself that you don't know your way and to be open to help from unexpected places. Doing that makes available to you inner and outer energies and allies that arise out of your own soulfulness and selflessness. [...] [G]etting caught up in the normal human tendencies of self-cherishing and arrogance, and ignoring the larger order of things, will ultimately lead to ans impasse in your life in which you are unable to go forward, unable to go back, and unable to turn around. ~ Jon Kabat-Zinn

Lord, help us to see in your crucifixion and resurrection an example of how to endure and seemingly to die in the agony and conflict of daily life, so that we may live more fully and creatively. You accepted patiently and humbly the rebuffs of human life, as well as the torture of the cross. Help us to accept the pains and conflicts that come to us each day as opportunity to grow as people and become more like you-make us realize that it is only by frequent deaths of ourselves, and our self-centered desires that we can come to live more fully, only by dying with you that we can rise with you. ~ Mother Teresa

Sometimes we are very convinced that what we went through needs to be re-lived so we end up going back and forth to the demons of the past and eventually we fail to get over them. ~ Stephen Richards

Guns are a necessary tool designed to help your people avoid a repeat of history. ~ A.E. Samaan

Those with calling also find wealth, so jump and start swimming towards your true self. ~ Ryan Lilly

Don't be afraid of who you're not.. Be afraid of never knowing who you are. Defend your authentic self. ~ Karen Laffey

A great life starts within ~ Malka Maxwell

With strong self-esteem you can climb any mountain and weather any storm. ~ Joanne Madeline Moore

If you have time to write a business plan, you have time to prove the model. Just sayin. ~ Richie Norton

I bear my humble witness to you that the great God of heaven will open doors and means in a way we never would have supposed, to help all those who truly want a years supply ... All we have to do is to decide, commit to it, and then keep the commitment. Miracles will take place ... ~ Vaughn J. Featherstone

Gratitude promotes good well-being. ~ Lailah Gifty Akita

The soul is sustained by spirituality. ~ Lailah Gifty Akita

Call on God at all times, even in times of trouble. ~ Lailah Gifty Akita

I did then what I knew best, when I knew better, I did better. Maya Angelo ~ Maya Angelou

I wonder where they'll go," Jake continued, frowning a little. "There's wolves out there, and all sorts of beasts."
"No self-respecting wolf would dare to confront that duenna of hers, not with that umbrella she wields," Ian snapped, but he felt a little uneasy.
"Oho!" said Jake with a hearty laugh. "So that's what she was? I thought they'd come to court you together. Personally, I'd be afraid to close my eyes with that gray-haired hag in bed next to me."
Ian was not listening. Idly he unfolded the note, knowing that Elizabeth Cameron probably wasn't foolish enough to have written it in her own girlish, illegible scrawl. His first thought as he scanned the neat, scratchy script was that she'd gotten someone else to write it for her…but then he recognized the words, which were strangely familiar, because he'd spoken them himself:

Your suggestion has merit. I'm leaving for Scotland on the first of next month and cannot delay the trip again. Would prefer the meeting take place there, in any case. A map is enclosed for direction to the cottage. Cordially-Ian.

"God help that silly bastard if he ever crosses my path!" Ian said savagely.
"Who d'you mean?"
"Peters!"
"Peters?" Jake said, gaping. "Your secretary? The one you sacked for mixin' up all your letters?"
"I should have strangled him! This is the note I meant for Dickinson Verley. He sent it to Cameron instead."
In furious disgust Ian raked his hand through his hair ~ Judith McNaught

What story will your life tell? Love your story. Live your story. Lead your story. ~ Richie Norton

Sustainable- Nutritious Eating/Living has a Higher Purpose. ~ Elizabeth Salamanca-Brosig

Her serenity journal was in her purse and she rummaged through until she found it. On the front page she had taped sentences to restore her in moments like this. You are capable of living this new healthy life. Don't torture yourself because you've made a mistake. Forgive yourself. Love yourself. You are enough. ~ Sadeqa Johnson

To follow your dream is to define your life. ~ Lailah Gifty Akita

How any person decides to emphasize strengths and mitigate weaknesses is something people have to figure out for themselves. I'm wary of the self-help literature that suggests there are certain rules. I'm very happy for people to look at my story and say it's possible to achieve many things. ~ Daniel Tammet

So, as you do the practice, if you are connected with your consciousness, then the mind is just free. It is so free that everything that you have smelled, tasted, touched, heard and seen is all there. You don't have to try to remember anything; it is all simply there. You can just pull it back. Memory is not about remembering, memory is just about your ability to bring back the data, isn't it? ~ Sadhguru

But to navigate transformation - genuine transformation that's true to exactly who we are - we must become mindful and attain a clear sense of self. We must take time to be alone with our thoughts and feelings. We must dive into daily practices that help us gather insight, wisdom, and clarity. ~ Jennifer Grace