George MacDonald Quotes

Books are only made so that they may point the way to a higher life; but no good results unless the path is trodden with unflinching steps!

I study more of truth and enlightening. I had to go the next level to talk about life.

Most of what I've learnt is too personal or controversial to share, but nevertheless, experiences have helped me understand things better and have been necessary for what my journey in future will be.

I recommend anybody go to a bookstore, go down the self-help or new-age section, and just walk those aisles. See what book jumps out at you; there's a good chance it's a book you need in your life. That's basically how I find the books that I read.

I'm on a missionary journey to become the best version of myself.

I wrote a book on life coaching, because my life became my own reference point how to live.

Our own self-realization is the greatest service we can render the world.

I'm not a fan of self-help books - how can something be 'self-help' if the book itself is purportedly helping you?

I know that inner wisdom is more precious than wealth. The more you spend it, the more you gain.

It is not possible to educate the will and the healthy soul that underlies it unless we develop insights that awaken energetic impulses in the soul and will.

The feeling of self-discovery, for me, is perennial.

I just need to be on the path to my own self-cultivation, my own self-actualisation.

Self-improveme nt is no more God's plan than self-salvation.

People say, "John, what's your personal growth?" And ask "How do you grow?" And I tell them. I thought, "Why do I keep telling them, why don't I just write a book on what I call personal growth?" And that's what this [Today Matters] book is.

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

the spiritual meaning of every situation [is] not what happens to us, but what we do with what happens to us and who we decide to become because of what happens to us. The only real failure is the failure to grow from what we go through.

I attempted briefly to consecrate myself in the public library, believing every crack in my soul could be chinked with a book.

I will work on myself, since the work on myself is going to be the highest thing I can do for it all, since I understand that as man up-levels his own consciousness, he sees more creative solutions to the problems that he's confronting.

Many years ago, when I was just about as complete a failure as one can become, I began to spend a good deal of time in libraries, looking for some answers. I found all the answers I needed in that golden vein of ore that every library has.

Those who are enlightened never stop forging themselves.

No experience is wasted. Everything in life is happening to grow you up, to fill you up, to help you become more of who you were created to be.

I want to help you grow as beautiful as God meant you to be when he thought of you first.

A satyagrahi turns the searchlight inward relentlessly to weed out all the defects that may be lying hidden there still.

Whatever purifies you is the correct road.