Self Work Quotes

“If your love for another person doesn’t include loving yourself then your love is incomplete.”
― Shannon L. Alder

“You truly help others working on yourself. Remember that the only power you have is over your own choices. You simply have no power to choose for others unless they allow you to.”
― Raphael Zernoff, I AM

“Healing is serious business, and it is painful business. How do we give up everything we’ve known for an unimagined future, worse yet, an unimagined us? Healing takes imagination, but it also takes guts.”
― Relebone Rirhandzu eAfrika, Broken Porcelain

“...and because she had not completed her "self work" to fully understand her self worth...she ran away from a love that was soul deep, created just for her at that very moment. #journey2love #journey2self #selfworkisessential
#stoprunningandstand”
― Sanjo Jendayi

“I had to travel to the darkest corners of my mind to seek the summit of my soul.”
― Positively Sherry

“I think that this idea, that the materials and self work can take you far enough for other things to kick in, was [Idries] Shah’s innovation, his “big gamble”, to fit a 21st century community of which very few would actually have physical contact with a living teacher.”
― H.M. Forester, Secret Friends: The Ramblings of a Madman in Search of a Soul

“I had to work on myself and get my own house in order before I was ready to fully return to the world as a single mom and ex-wife of a felon. Just as you can’t love other people before you love yourself, you can’t be Thoughtfully Fit with others until you build a strong internal foundation.”
― Darcy Luoma, Thoughtfully Fit: Your Training Plan for Life and Business Success

“There are many parts of the world we can't do anything about except pray. But there is one part of the world, one part of physical reality, that we can do something about, and that is the creature each of us calls 'myself.' Personal holiness and global holiness belong together. Those who wake up to the one may well find themselves called to wake up to the other as well.”
― N.T. Wright, Surprised by Hope: Rethinking Heaven, the Resurrection, and the Mission of the Church