Byron Katie Quotes

The only person who is going to give you security and the life you want is you.

There are things one must do for oneself.

I don't need others to push me. I push myself.

I would like to have your sureness. I am waiting for love, the core of a woman's life." Don't wait for it," I said. "Create a world, your world. Alone. Stand alone. And then love will come to you, then it comes to you. It was only when I wrote my first book that the world I wanted to live in opened to me.

Don't anoint me when you can anoint yourself.

You really do learn by example... Especially women, sometimes we think somebody's going to rescue us, or somebody's going to teach us how to do it, when in fact we have to understand that the biggest resource we have is inside of ourselves. I know that I can count on me to take care of me. That's a very important thing to know.

No one saves us but ourselves. No one can and no one may. We ourselves must walk the path.

Work out your own salvation. Do not depend on others.

The spirit of self-help is the root of all genuine growth in the individual.

Can't nothing make your life work if you ain't the architect.

The idea that somebody else is going to swoop down and play the fairy godmother role is pretty unlikely, so why not take care of yourself?

I don't have to do anything for anyone else's benefit anymore. I just want to exceed my own expectations.

Do not rely completely on any other human being, however dear. We meet all life's greatest tests alone.

Self-actualized people are independent of the good opinion of others.

No bird soars too high if he soars with his own wings.

Even if it's not what you planned, you can make a life for yourself on your own and be happy.

It's not what your parents give you. It's what you do with your own stuff.

Be above it! Make the world serve your purpose, but do not serve it.

We all have to work for happiness. And you cannot listen to other people. That is the worst mistake you can make.

Since being quite young, I've had a very strong sense of independence and survival. As a child, I was on my own two feet emotionally.

We become strong, I feel, when we have no friends upon whom to lean, or to look to for moral guidance.

That's the kind of motif I bring to the books - that people take charge of their own lives.

Liberation does not come from outside.

I learned not to depend on other people. I needed support, but it's you who has to go out and deliver.

Maturity includes the recognition that no one is going to see anything in us that we don't see in ourselves. Stop waiting for a producer. Produce yourself.