Jenna Fischer Quotes

Through therapy and a lot of thinking and writing my memoirs, I've been able to use my life as a lesson.

I think that there is a tragic misfit at the core of me, and I've just done a lot of work on myself. I love a good self-help book; I've read a ton of them. I love self-help seminars and therapy and all that.

And although she was sometimes dissatisfied with herself, she felt unable to go beyond her own limitations. Books were safer.

I was never at my best when I was at my worst. When I did do good stuff in the past, it was because I was able to transcend the parts of my being that weren't healthy.

Fortunately analysis is not the only way to resolve inner conflicts. Life itself still remains a very effective therapist.

Know that you are your greatest enemy, but also your greatest friend.

I don't think we have a right to enjoy our neuroses; in fact, I believe that we have a duty not to. But we cannot walk away from ourselves. Who else is there to become?

Glorify who you are today, do not condemn who you were yesterday, and dream of who you can be tomorrow.

I've been in therapy. I know enough about myself now to know that I really don't need to know anymore.

Our accepting what we are must always inhibit our being what we ought to be.

For me, it really is about the self-acceptance... the more time that I spend really accepting and allowing myself to be exactly where I am, the faster it is I move towards what I wanna be doing.

The stories I want to tell are when we're our own heroes and our own enemies, and I don't think that's a rude thing to ask for. I don't think that's something I should apologize for.

I want women to learn to find themselves.

The thing I love most about going to a book store is the self-help section is the biggest section because Americans know we're screwed up. We know it. But we want to get better.

Recovery is an ongoing project that is really discrete from everything else in my life. It allows me to be an agent, allows me to write, allows me to be married, allows me to be part of a family. The writing is not a support beam of recovery but a happy consequence of it.

Getting to know myself changed everything. It's the best thing I've ever done.

I stopped worrying about how other people define me a little bit ago. I used to care a lot. Now I just don't care that much. Really, what I'm worried about is, am I being the best me I can be?

'Correct' is a song and an exercise for me where I've been able to reclaim who I am and the good that I've done when in real life sometimes I struggle with that.

I see myself as improving. I think I'm a very curious person, and I like that about myself .

Love yourself. KNOW thyself. And be mindful of your thoughts.

If you're looking for self-help, why would you read a book written by somebody else?

You can't run away from yourself

The disease we all have and that we have to fight against all our lives is ... the disease of self.

I think it's so important, as young women, to have relationships, especially when you're in your early 20s. But it's always so important to focus on yourself.

Self improvement is masturbation.