Quotes about Personal Growth

When my dad passed, I felt like I had to grow up very quickly.

The time for frivolous entertainment has passed. You can be entertained while at the same time learning from and growing with the people around you.

'Hell Or High Water' was written after the end of a relationship, and I do feel like every Passenger album has the obligatory break-up song.

I just want to look better by each passing day.

With every passing year, I feel more fulfilled.

amelioration." The diary entry is a remarkable indication that

To the degree we're not living our dreams, our comfort zone has more control of us than we have over ourselves.

What we find changes who we become.

The journey transforms the destination.

Rabbi Zusya, when he was an old man, said, "In the coming world, they will not ask me: 'Why were you not Moses?' They will ask me, 'Why were you not Zusya?' "4 The true vocation for every human being is, as Kierkegaard said, "the will to be oneself.

Most of us never examine the scripts handed to us by our past.

God never asks us to annihilate the self. We are not to become "non-persons" when we become Christians. The very opposite is true. God intends our deeper, truer self, which he created, to blossom as we follow him.

Grow me, I pray, into an emotionally mature adult through the Holy Spirit's power.

The vast majority of us go to our graves without knowing who we are. We unconsciously live someone else's life, or at least someone else's expectations for us. This does violence to ourselves, our relationship with God, and ultimately to others.

For this reason the famous Hasidic story of Rabbi Zusya remains so important for us today: Rabbi Zusya, when he was an old man, said, "In the coming world, they will not ask me: 'Why were you not Moses?' They will ask me, 'Why were you not Zusya?

It has been said that the real measure of our sense of self is when we are with our parents for more than three days. At that point we need to ask ourselves how old we feel. Have we gone back to our patterns of behaving more in line with our childhood, or have we broken free from our past to live in what God has for us now?

The late Dag Hammarskjöld, once the secretary general of the United Nations, suggested that we have become adept at exploring outer space, but we have not developed similar skills in exploring our own personal inner spaces. He wrote, "The longest journey of any person is the journey inward."4 Most of us feel much more equipped to manipulate objects, control situations, and "do" things than to take that very long journey inward. Painful Honesty

In other words, says Abbot Bernard, if you're not concerned that your heart might become hard, it already is. A hardened heart is a big problem for a leader in any context, but it will utterly derail any hope of being able to clearly hear and do the will of God.

To go through life and call it yours - your life - you first have to get your own pain. Pain that's unique to you. You can't just dip into the common bin and say 'That's enough!

One makes advances. You do! You come to see what your story is like. That's part of the fun: to see how you can get the other elements that are not your natural interests or concerns primarily.

Transcendence is transformation.

What, exactly, am I going to do with my life?

Sometimes you've just gotta give yourself what you wish you were getting from someone else.

some lesssons couldn't be taught, only learned.