Help Book Quotes:

Books serve to show a man that those original thoughts of his aren't very new at all.

- Abraham Lincoln

topic: Workout, Book, New Relationship, Inspirational Reading, Inspiring Book

I almost once wanted to publish a self help book saying, 'How To Be Happy, by Stephen Fry: Guaranteed Success'. And people buy this huge book and it's all blank pages, and the first page would just say, 'Stop feeling sorry for yourself--and you will be happy.'

- Stephen Fry

topic: Sorry, Book, Self, Stop Feeling Sorry For Yourself, Feeling Sorry

Your ability to navigate and tolerate change and its painful uncomfortablene ss directly correlates to your happiness and general well-being. See what I just did there? I saved you thousands of dollars on self-help books. If you can surf your life rather than plant your feet, you will be happier.

- Amy Poehler

topic: Book, Feet, Self, Self Help Books, Help Book

Religions, of course, have their own demanding intellectual traditions, as Jesuits and Talmudic scholars might attest.... But, in its less rigorous, popular forms, religion is about as intellectually challenging as the average self-help book. (Like personal development literature, mass market books about spirituality and religion celebrate emotionalism and denigrate reason. They elevate the "truths" of myths and parables over empiricism.) In its more authoritarian forms, religion punishes questioning and rewards gullibility. Faith is not a function of stupidity but a frequent cause of it.

- Wendy Kaminer

topic: Book, Self, Average, Gullibility, Jesuit

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.

- Jenna Fischer

source: Source: film.avclub.com

topic: Book, Thinking, Self, Self Help Books, Seminars

I have had moments where I've had mental-health issues and I've felt like yoga and meditating and reading these Buddhist self-help books actually really help.

- Mike White

topic: Buddhist, Yoga, Book, Self Help Books, Health Issues

If you have to learn it from a self-help book, you may be beyond help.

- Wes Smith

topic: Book, Self, May, Self Help Books, Help Book

When it comes to achieving your dreams, the excuse "I don't know where to start" is no longer valid. Between the countless self-help books available on Amazon.com and the limitless supply of free articles found through Google, everything you need is just a click away. It's time you go figure it out!

- Hal Elrod

source: FaceBook post by Hal Elrod from May 19, 2011

topic: Dream, Book, Self, Waking Up Early, Self Help Books

You can love more than one person at a time, and I don't give a damn what the self-help books say.

- Rita Mae Brown

topic: Love, Book, Self, Don't Give A Damn, Self Help Books

I went to a bookstore the other day. I asked a woman behind the counter where the self-help books were. She said, ‘If I told you, that would defeat the whole purpose.’

- Brian Kiley

topic: Book, Self, Purpose, Self Help Books, Help Book

Self-help books for those who believe 'You can have it all' often advise, 'Follow your bliss and money will follow.' With the collapse of the stock markets the reality of trade-offs is more like, 'When you follow your bliss, it's money you'll miss.'

- Warren Farrell

source: "Why Men Earn More". Book by Warren Farrell, 2005.

topic: Believe, Book, Reality, Believe You Can, Trade Offs

The buying of a self-help book is the most desperate of all human acts. It means you've lost your mind completely: You've entrusted your mental health to a self-aggrandizing twit with a psychology degree and a yen for a yacht.

- Cynthia Heimel

topic: Book, Mean, Self, Lost Your Mind, Twits

Self-help books for women are part of a multibillion-dollar industry, sensitively attuned to our insecurities and our purses.

- Harriet Lerner

topic: Book, Self, Insecurity, Self Help Books, Help Book

Within the new self-help books for women, patriarachy and male domination are rarely identified as forces that lead to the oppression, exploitation, and domination of women. Instead, these books suggest that individual relationships between men and women can be changed solely by women making the right choices.

- Bell Hooks

topic: Book, Men, Self, Right Choices, Self Help Books

Most people don't walk around the tools to process pain and fear, that kind of discomfort. In most cases, it's unbearable to look at it, feel it, and/or address it. It's why I'm such a fan of self-help books.

- Gabrielle Bernstein

topic: Pain, Book, Self, Self Help Books, Help Book

Do yourself and your family a favor: Decide right now that you will write a self-help book someday. I'm serious. A self-help book is a great way to capture what you think makes a good person, a good life and a good world. It's also a "forever document" that you can pass down to future generations. We need more people sharing positive messages and books with the world. Why not be one of those people?

- Brendon Burchard

topic: Good Life, Book, Writing, Positive Messages, Documents

I don't want to sound like a self-help book, but it really has been transformative for me to take a look at my relationships in a new way and see my part in them. Everybody's going through that.

- Bonnie Raitt

source: "Origin Interview: Diggin' Deep with Bonnie Raitt, Legend, Activist, Musician". Interview with Maranda Pleasant, www.marandapleasantmedia.com. April 27, 2016.

topic: Book, Self, Sound, Self Help Books, Help Book

The American journalist Barbara Ehrenreich has written about this in her book Smile or Die: How Positive Thinking Fooled America and the World (2009) . She talks about the happiness industry, the rise of medication to make us happy and of self-help books, and the influence of all this on religion. In many ways religion has become another form of self-help. We all suffer from over-exposure to positive thinking.

- Mark Ravenhill

topic: Book, Positive Thinking, Self, Self Help Books, Help Book

Music is gathering. Taking our scattered thoughts and senses and coalescing us back into our core. Music is powerful. The first few chords can change us where no self-help books can.

- Jane Siberry

topic: Powerful, Book, Self, Self Help Books, Help Book

Self-help books are for the birds. Self-help groups are where it's at.

- Janice Dickinson

topic: Book, Self, Bird, Self Help Books, Help Book

I'm totally into new age and self-help books. I used to work in a bookstore and that's the section they gave me, and I got way into it. I just loved the power of positive thinking, letting yourself go.

- Jason Mraz

topic: Love, Letting Go, Book, Self Help Books, Help Book

I am the first person to go to Barnes & Noble and buy the new self-help book. I like to fill out the surveys, then I get my friends' opinions on how I answered to see if I was being honest with myself or not.

- Jessica Simpson

topic: Book, Self, Noble, Self Help Books, Help Book

Sometimes when I watch my dog, I think about how good life can be, if we only lose ourselves in our stories. Lucy doesn't read self-help books about how to be a dog; she just IS a dog. All she wants to do is chase ducks and sticks and do other things that make both her and me happy. It makes me wonder if that was the intention for man, to chase sticks and ducks, to name animals, to create families, and to keep looking back at God to feed off his pleasure at our pleasure.

- Donald Miller

topic: Dog, Good Life, Book, Self Help Books, Help Book

It is one thing to be a man's wife - quite another to be the mother of his children. In fact, once you become a mother, being a wife seems like a game you once played or a self-help book you were overly impressed with as a teenager that on second reading is puffy with common ideas. This was one of the many things I had learned since crossing over into the middle place - that sliver of time when childhood and parenthood overlap.

- Kelly Corrigan

source: Kelly Corrigan (2008). “The Middle Place”, p.37, Hachette UK

topic: Mother, Children, Teenager, Crossing Over, Self Help Books

Coming into your powers can be a very confusing time. Perhaps there is a book on the subject. If you like, we can go see Marian." Yeah, right. Choices and Changes. A Modern Girl's Guide to Casting. My Mom Wants to Kill Me: A Self-Help Book For Teens.

- Kami Garcia

topic: Girl, Mom, Book, Beautiful Creatures, Right Choices

I look at every book as a self-help book.

- Marc Maron

topic: Book, Self, Looks, Self Help Books, Help Book

The truth is, I can’t read anything with any distance. Every book is a self-help book to me. Just having them makes me feel better.

- Marc Maron

source: Marc Maron (2013). “Attempting Normal”, p.14, Spiegel & Grau

topic: Distance, Book, Feel Better, Make Me Feel Better, Self Help Books

There are many self-help books by Ph.D.s, but I hold a different degree: an I.B.T.I.A.-I've Been Through It All. This degree comes not on parchment but gauze, and it entitles me to tell you that there is a way to get through any misfortune.

- Joan Rivers

topic: Book, Self, Way, Self Help Books, Help Book

I never read a self-help book except for the Bible.

- Jon Heder

topic: Book, Self, Helping, Self Help Books, Help Book

I'm not that into reading. If I'm gonna read, I'm gonna read some cool sci-fi book or something, not some stupid self-help book.

- Jon Heder

topic: Stupid, Reading, Book, Self Help Books, Help Book

When I look for self-help books for myself, I used to be scared that I was going to pick up a book that would depress me even more.

- Vinny Guadagnino

topic: Depressing, Book, Self, Self Help Books, Help Book

Self-help books are making life downright unsafe. Women desperate to catch a man practice all the ploys recommended by these authors. Bump into him, trip over him, knock him down, spill something on him, scald him, but meet him.

- Florence King

source: Florence King (1990). “Reflections In A Jaundiced Eye”, p.73, Macmillan

topic: Life, Book, Men, Ploy, Self Help Books

Depression is a serious problem, but drugs are not the answer. In the long run, psychotherapy is both cheaper and more effective, even for very serious levels of depression. Physical exercise and self-help books based on CBT can also be useful, either alone or in combination with therapy. Reducing social and economic inequality would also reduce the incidence of depression.

- Irving Kirsch

topic: Running, Book, Exercise, Incidence, Long Runs

No matter what the shrinks, or the pundits, or the self-help books tell you, when it comes to love, it's luck.

- Woody Allen

source: "Fictional character: Robin Simon". "Celebrity", www.imdb.com. 1998.

topic: Love, Book, Self, Shrinks, Self Help Books

I don't read thrillers, romance or mystery, and I don't read self-help books because I don't believe in shortcuts and loopholes.

- Isabel Allende

topic: Believe, Book, Self, Self Help Books, Help Book

Self help books are pointless. Here's something for you... Men are from Mars, women are from Venus, and self help books are from Uranus.

- Craig Ferguson

source: "The Late Late Show with Craig Ferguson", www.imdb.com. 2005-2015.

topic: Book, Men, Self, Self Help, Self Help Books

I definitely have a spiritual outlook. I don't usually read self-help books, but I read a great book by a guy called Wayne Dyer, 'The Power of Intention,' which I loved. I'm not a religious guy, in fact I'm probably agnostic but I thought what this writer had to say was really powerful.

- Chris Pine

source: Source: www.indielondon.co.uk

topic: Spiritual, Religious, Powerful, Power Of Intention, Really Powerful

A self-help book can't really address a problem unless it's individualized. It's not going to talk about a globalized problem.

- Hank Azaria

source: Source: www.believermag.com

topic: Book, Self, Addresses, Self Help Books, Help Book

A very enjoyable meditation on the curious thing called 'Zen' -not the Japanese religious tradition but rather the Western clich of Zen that is embraced in advertising, self-help books, and much more. . . . Yamada, who is both a scholar of Buddhism and a student of archery, offers refreshing insight into Western stereotypes of Japan and Japanese culture, and how these are received in Japan.

- Alexander Gardner

topic: Religious, Book, Buddhism, Japanese Culture, Religious Traditions

I learned how to believe in myself. Learned how to set goals, you know, self help books man. I just read every single one I can get a hold of, and I still do.

- Drew Carey

topic: Believe, Book, Men, Self Help Books, Help Book

Everybody wants confidence but you don't find it in self help books. You find confidence in the Holy Spirit.

- Rick Warren

topic: Book, Self, Want, Self Help Books, Help Book