Quotes about Personal Growth

The best we can do for others is work on ourselves.

Actually, when the dark within them arises, it's a good sign. It is the neglected part of themselves demanding attention. When they turn within and begin consciously loving themselves, noticing their own beauty and taking care of themselves, the demons melt away. Thus, Aries North Node people need to regularly take time to focus on themselves and see what they need to do to support themselves. Then they will be able to interact with others from a place of internal strength and harmony.

If my client had not distracted his wife from her moments of unhappiness so that he could stay calm, she would have had the opportunity to learn to handle her own moods.

My mother killed herself when I was 12. I won't complete that relationship. But I can try to understand her.

Mindful of the boundaries between us and our grown children, we make the effort to take the differences between us less personally

Unfortunately, many children of alcoholics have not been given a secure base from which to venture into the adult world. The focus on addiction in their families, rather than on the developing needs of children, often causes children of alcoholics to feel shameful and anxious rather than confident and secure. These children learn to adapt to life rather than learning how to live their lives. Without

I will be unneeded, and gladly so, when you realize that the vitality and reinforcement and joy are your own, and rise from the fountain of your own beings; when you realize that you do not need me for protection, for there is nothing you need protect yourself against.

If you want to become more confidant, you have to change yourself image

I was an only child. I've known only children. From this experience, I do believe that the children should outnumber the parents.

In spite of the honestest efforts to annihilate my I-ity, or merge it in what the world doubtless considers my better half, I still find myself a self-subsisting and alas! self-seeking me.

Instead of boiling up individuals into the species, I would draw a chalk circle round every individuality, and preach to it to keep within that, and preserve and cultivate its identity.

In spite of honest efforts to annihilate my I-ity, or merge it in what the world doubtless considers my better half, I still find myself a self-subsisting and alas! self-seeking me.

Janet Buttolph Johnson

If you expect to find people who will understand you, you will grow murderous with disappointment. The best you'll ever do is to understand yourself, know what it is that you want, and not let the cattle stand in your way.

True love is born of experience, not fairy dust.

Very often the lessons you learn are more important than the things you accomplish

Wishes are powerful things. You can't expect them to change the world without changing you too.

I wish I'd gotten sober at a younger age.

If we are to move towards our collective bliss, it's time we shed our focus on the physical.

It is doubtful that real personal change can occur without the conscious and painful process of self-criticism that is required to reject power and ego.

You are only as much as you settle for.

The year you were born marks only your entry into the world. Other years where you prove your worth, they are the ones worth celebrating.

Wisdom isn't taught; it's not a science. Wisdom is a tattoo carved into the mind after a lifetime of failures and achievements.

Don't worry about finding your soul mate. Find yourself.