Joyce Meyer Quotes

The first step to dealing with a problem is admitting that you have a problem.

I don't mind finding these ugly sides to my personality and exaggerating them because that's something you can write towards.

All my shows are therapy, trying to navigate interesting subjects so I can work them out and to be honest and say some things are beyond the wit of this man.

The hardest thing for anyone is to admit you have a problem and then to act on it.

We need to not be in denial about what we've done, what we've come through. It will help us if we all do that.

I do think that when you make repeated mistakes, it's usually because you're just not coming to grips with something.

Admit at least one painful truth to yourself every day. Teach yourself to feel that life would still be worth living even if you were not immeasurably superior to all your friends. Exercises of this sort, prolonged through several years, will at last enable you to admit facts without flinching, and will, in so doing, free you from the empire of fear over a very large field.

People are simply not willing to look at their problems honestly and admit that they have problems.

When you can look a thing dead in the eye, acknowledge that it exists, call it exactly what it is, and decide what role it will take in your life then, my Beloved, you have taken the first step toward your freedom.

Not everything that is faced can be changed. But nothing can be changed until it is faced.

Where I am right now I'm pretty good at. You know, I understand that there's a problem. I'm addressing it. I'm doing the work that I have to do.

Oh, I would love to be a motivational speaker. I have pulled myself out of a million potholes, and I can see the potholes ahead of me. That doesn't mean that I could always do that so perfectly for my own life. I totally fall in potholes.

Strangely, I feel that I become increasingly reclusive in my normal life and more open and candid in my music.

I surround people in unconditional acceptance and love to such a degree that everything that is unloving about them rises to the surface.

When you take the fact that you're loved for granted, it frees your mind to go after every other thing there is.

I went to a motivational training course once, a course of self-discovery, and I found out after a week that my fear - it was not a fear of not being accepted - was a very violent fear of failure.

Sometimes you have to confront your demons and sometimes even let them loose to genuinely find a place where you can gain some understanding.

What we try to do in TSAW, which is Tasha Smith Actors Workshop, is to help the actor get to the core of who they really are and how they really feel. So, we may have them do a dump, where you just basically express everything that you feel that you have not been able to express, whether it's good, bad, or ugly.

It takes a lot of courage to face up to things you can't do because we feed ourselves so much denial.

I'm easy driving, But I'm not a person who loves living pleasantly above all else. I'm not that way at all. I might think I'm that, but I'm not really that.

I know I've done good things, I know I've done bad things.

Well, any time you do anything good, it's man versus himself, right? That's the art, the challenge.

The trouble that they see me in is a part of my life that I'm working on.

When you have something that is bothering you, and then you articulate, take the time to really express it and see it clearly, to recognize. To acknowledge that is already a liberating energy.

I love therapy! There's nothing like talking to someone who has no emotional tie to your life.