Quotes about Personal Growth

One of the difficulties of stretching ourselves is that we tend to see ourselves as our limitations, not as our potential. We're lost in our own world.

I am a passionate traveler, and from the time I was a child, travel formed me as much as my formal education.

You don't know where you're going until you know where you've been?

It is good to have an end to journey toward; but it is the journey that matters, in the end. URSULA K. LE GUIN

I've been keeping a diary for thirty-three years and write in it every morning. Most of it's just whining, but every so often there'll be something I can use later: a joke, a description, a quote. It's an invaluable aid when it comes to winning arguments. 'That's not what you said on February 3 1996 ' I'll say to someone.

Because talent is a function of acquired skills rather than innate ability, adult achievement depends completely on long-term attitude and resources and process rather than any particular age-based talent quotient.

There are three choices in this life: be good, get good, or give up.

the behavior we see as "diminished" in elderly parents, clients, and friends actually exists to do a very specific developmental job.

If we don't resolve the key issues at each stage, we may get stuck and be considered immature by our peers.

Sometimes I feel an obligation to be accessible as a personality, but for me the driving force since the beginning has always been good work, taking risks, trying new things. If the door opens, go through it. Always go forwards.

I was never jailed. The fact is that I was arrested, but I went into a diversion programme, and by that time I'd already begun working in what was called anger management. It was a painful and awful moment.

Teaching happens when teachers help students to think about what they are doing and learning, to ask questions, to consider new possibilities, to take seriously their own capacities to grow and learn and to develop a sense of judgment.

The principles now planted in thy bosom will grow, and one day reach maturity; and in that maturity thou wilt find thy heaven or thy hell.

The science of replacement says that in order for us to be better people, our goals should be to replace our worst habits and focus our attention in other places.

Hiding leaves life to itself, to become more of itself. Hiding is the radical independence necessary for our emergence into the light of a proper human future.

Never stop working on yourself. You can't change other people but you definitely can change yourself.

But such a person also has that annoying voice in the back of her head constantly reminding her that merely "coasting by" in life isn't an accomplishment.

The most fulfilling romance is an heroic relationship with yourself. You live and die by your own imagination.

Those who try and fix the world are usually those who have trouble fixing the fundamental problems in their own lives

It's a comfortable place, mediocrity. Never pushing oneself to the limit to see what you can take. Never staring down your fears, never reaching into yourself to find that last bit of courage. You don't even know what it is that you're made of-and what's more, you seem distinctly uninterested in finding out.

The vicar likes to talk about the great wall that exists in all of us, the end place at which each of us will say 'That is as far as I shall go.' He is very interested in how those walls are formed.

Lonesome is habit," she said with a shrug. "One that can be broken.

Once an asshole, always an asshole.

Your only job—and it's a big one—is to try to speak and live your own honest truth. That truth might shift. You might need more time to even understand what that truth is. That's it. That's the job. Trying to manage or control everyone else? Not the job. Impossible, besides.