Quotes about Personal Growth

True change happens within, not without.

A great climb is a wonderful mixture of difficulty and intimacy.

I'll go even further and say that competitiveness in mountaineering is wrong. It's dangerous. Climbing should be personally motivated.

During the interval between her divorce and her remarriage she had learned what things cost, but not how to do without them; and money still seemed to her like some mysterious and uncertain stream which occasionally vanished underground but was sure to bubble up again at one's feet.

Now, whatever, either on good or upon bad grounds, tends to raise a man in his own opinion, produces a sort of swelling and triumph, that is extremely grateful to the human mind.

Taking responsibility means you don't blame anyone else for your difficulties. It also means that you don't blame yourself.

Every man who rises above the common level has received two educations: the first from his teachers; the second more personal and important, from himself.

Oh, dear, there are so many things we're brought up to believe that it takes you an awfully long time to realize that they aren't you... Why don't you travel? Why don't you get a master's degree in...something? Why don't you try doing this, that, or the other? Well, you're probably not doing it because it's not right. Why worry about it? God knows, there's enough to worry about without worrying about worrying about things.

That was my lesson. I needed to act differently.

So I started trying to behave as if my defects of character were gone. I considered how I would behave if I were who I wanted to be, and I acted that way to the best of my poor acting ability. I made lots of mistakes along the way, but I began to improve with time. It was hard.

As I go through my life in recovery, steps six and seven come into play more actively than any other personally applicable spiritual principles. Open-minded willingness followed by active prayer through changed behavior are able to mold my character, but they do not change it. Change, true conversion, comes as a gift when I am humble enough to ask for it.

If I had my life again, I'd act differently. It's hard for a man if he thinks his wife doesn't respect him.

Edward St. Aubyn

At this point, we know that worry and fear are more about us than about the things outside us. They

El verdadero cambio se lleva a cabo cuando nos enfocamos en conocer a Aquel que realmente merece nuestra adoración (2 Pedro 1:3). Aunque muchos de nosotros asumimos que el cambio involucra un plan con ciertos pasos, el cambio a nivel del corazón se centra en conocer a una persona.

I felt broken at the end of the meeting, but a little closer to being free.

The true measure of a man is the degree to which he has managed to subjugate his ego.

I had used eclectic therapy and behavior therapy on myself at the age of 19 to get over my fear of public speaking and of approaching young women in public.

The best years of your life are the ones in which you decide your problems are your own. You do not blame them on your mother, the ecology, or the president. You realize that you control your own destiny.

Regular praise for even the smallest of accomplishments is the only thing that keeps Ham-it-up Histrionics anywhere near copacetic. Don't waste your breath on criticism of any sort. Histrionics will always believe that the problem is with your perception rather than their behavior. Anyway, if you remember the praise, you can pretty much forget about everything else.

We have one symptom in common already. Only you may think I've an advantage over you because I can change my name by marrying. Well, I can't. I shall be twenty-four next April. And nobody ever asked me to marry. That means nobody ever is going to. So let's pass on to the next symptom.

Grow into your ideals so that life cannot rob you of them.

The doctor of the future will be oneself.

The dark realization came to him that a difficult and miserable age had begun for him, and he couldn't imagine when it would end. [Puberty]