Quotes about Personal Growth

What the youth needs to be told is that a ship is a-building in his own mental dry dock, a ship with freedom of the seas.

There is only one corner of the universe you can be certain of improving, and that's your own self.

There's only one corner of the universe you can be certain of improving, and that's your own self.

No cuentes el tiempo sino tus transformaciones

La espada que todo lo corta no te corta cuando te conviertes en la espada.

When you find love, real love, it's like a catastrophe, like a tsunami. Like an earthquake, because all your individuality, all what you believed you are, it's breaking. And you are completely another person. You never know what you were. And it's a catastrophe –– but a good catastrophe, not a bad catastrophe.

One becomes wise only in measures, as he goes through his own insanity.

Own only what you can always carry with you: know languages, know countries, know people. Let your memory be your travel bag.

But sometimes it is just impossible to obey blindly. Sometimes a child must strike out on her own. A child cannot be a child forever

I'm a better person when I'm with you. I don't want to stop being that person. I don't want you to go

Sometimes it also helps to have a bit less pride.

Live as if you were living already for the second time and as if you had acted the first time as wrongly as you are about to act now!50

Entre el estímulo y la respuesta hay un espacio. En ese espacio reside nuestra libertad y nuestra capacidad de elegir nuestra respuesta. En nuestra respuesta radica nuestro crecimiento y nuestra felicidad.»

A man, as a general rule, owes very little to what he is born with a man is what he makes of himself.

Happiness is the consciousness of growth. [...] If my definition has validity, it suggests that most people come to therapy because they sense their growth has been arrested. Certainly many patients look to therapy to reinstitute the growth process. (33)

It is only by making the past alive again for a person that a true growth in the present is facilitated. If the past is cut off, the future does not exist.

Until you make the unconscious conscious," Carl Jung said, "it will direct your life and you will call it fate.

The secret of keeping a journal is seeing it as a draft, a stepping-stone, a process.

Someone else's success is not your failure.

Move your feet in the direction that is most favorable for your living up to your full potential.

?nsan, tekrar yücelmesi için kendini yeni ba?tan in?a etmek zorundad?r. Ve bu yenile?meyi ?zd?rap çekmeden yapamaz. Çünkü o hem mermerdir, hem de heykeltra?. Hakiki biçimini yeniden kazanmak için, büyük çekiç darbelerini kendi maddesine indirerek k?v?lc?mlar ç?karacakt?r.

The shell must break before the bird can fly.

It is not uncommon for the youngest child to outstrip every other member of the family and become its most capable member.

Self-discovery is a slower process but a more natural one.