Self-work Quotes

Life is a way of perfection. You need to work on yourself. You become a good person. If you do your work you will discover sublime feelings.

So you work on yourself as a gift to other human beings. Then you use every situation you have with other human beings as a vehicle to work on yourself by seeing where you get stuck-where you push, where you grab, where you judge, where you do all the stuff.

To attract attractive people, you must be attractive. To attract powerful people, you must be powerful. To attract committed people, you must be committed. Instead of going to work on them, you go to work on yourself. If you become, you can attract.

We experience happiness as a series of pleasing moments. They come and go like clouds, unpredictable, fleeting, and without responsibility to our desires. Through honest self-work, reflection, and meditation, we begin to string more of these moments together, creating a web-like design of happiness that drapes around our lives.

I can do nothing for you but work on myself...you can do nothing for me but work on yourself!

We collaborate together. We work with other people. We work by ourselves.

I've been involved in social activism my entire life, and I would argue that many people involved in social activist movements have done very little work on themselves.

The process of writing a poem represents work done on the self of the poet, in order to make form.

Each man must work for himself, and unless he so works, no outside help can avail him.

Work with yourself. Work. If you have a partner, so much the better. Speak. Use whatever process is appropriate. Know that this universe is compassionate, aware and alive. This is a universe of life. This is not a material enterprise. It is a spiritual enterprise and it is filled with loving assistance. This is a thought form that must be in place in order for you to receive assistance.

you cannot hope for change in others, you can only work toward it in yourself. And that's hard work.

Do what you can on this plane to relieve suffering by constantly working on yourself to be an instrument for the cessation of suffering. To me, that's what the emerging game is all about.

It's OK to want to feel beautiful - as long as you really do the work on yourself to be the kind of person you are proud of.

The only thing I have learned is to find strength in yourself. No one can help you, no one can do anything for you, you have to do the work yourself.

I've just always been interested in how people lead their lives. How they survive in this world. I'm curious about people's damage, and navigating that and the way people forgive. I find it really interesting. That's why we have to transform on a daily basis, work on ourselves. It's work.