Quotes about Personal Growth

Everything around me was changing so fast—my apartment block, the local shops, the alleys, the roads, the subway lines. Beijing was moving forwards like an express train, but my life was going nowhere. Okay, so I was getting lots of work, but it was all the same. Woman Waiting on the Platform, Lady in Waiting, Bored Waitress. I was only in my twenties, but I felt seventy. I had to do something, ask my brain to start working, so I could match this fast-moving city.

My youth began when I was 21. At least, that's when I decided it began. That was when I started to think that all those shiny things in life - some of them might possibly be for me.

Los padres son solo padres, no son nadie especial. Hay padres a los que hay que abandonar por el bien de uno mismo.

Writing isn't particularly different from hibernation. Perhaps I made a drowsy impression, but in the bear's den of my brain, I was giving birth to my own childhood and secretly attending to its upbringing.

As children, we played hide and seek with one another, as adults with ourselves.

Only the wounded healer can truly heal.

I tend to avoid writing music about initial reactions to situations, like frustration or anger. I'd rather wait till I go through the problem, and write about the learning that took place.

we are the whole life that we have lived, its highs and lows, its fortunes and its hardships; we are the sum of the ghosts that haunt us...

Men needed the test of competition to find their better selves, Lombardi insisted, whether it was in sports, politics or business.

Even ordinary people like us, we also need the tools for transformation.

in fact the only thing that really matters is inner transformation.

The true purpose of alchemy is about reining in our baser instincts –' he nodded towards me '– and realizing our highest potential.

Aminte?te-?i de cuvintele lui Buddha: De?i un singur om poate învinge în b?t?lie o mie de oameni de o mie de ori, cel care se învinge pe sine este cel mai mare r?zboinic.

Buddha: 'Though one man may conquer a thousand men a thousand times in battle, he who conquers himself is the greatest warrior.

...there ain't no journey what don't change you some.

been raised rather successfully

Maybe we've grown out of each other.

This, I thought, is why we have comfort zones, because they are comfortable. What can possibly be gained by leaving them?

A él le habían pasado demasiadas cosas, y a ella demasiado pocas.

Time does not heal all wounds. Some pain becomes part of who you are.

People are "punished" or "rewarded" not for what they have done but for what they have become, and what we intentionally do is what makes us what we are.

The things that wound us are the most important things we know

Though most of us want to move on from our past, we tend to go through our lives simply casting new people into the roles of key people, such as our parents or any significant person with whom there is still unfinished business.

Then we become more adult, because we are fulfilling the inner urge that all humans were born with: to go on a heroic journey, to move on rather than stay stuck. Where we are is not our fate. It is where we can best begin the journey.