Quotes about Personal Growth

Keep it. I think I've got something else to help center my life." - Adrian Ivashkov

What do you think, little dhampir? I was pretty badass with that plant, wasn't I? Of course, it would have been more badass if I'd, I dunno, helped an amputee grow a limb back. Or maybe separated Siamese twins. But that'll come with more practice.

Part of me felt mollified by the letter, though another part felt he still could have been a bit more tactful in his earlier treatment, busy or no. The rest of me pointed out that all of these "parts of me" probably should be in therapy.

Wrong? I don't know, Sage. Honestly, that was the most right thing that's happened to me in a while.

Richelle Mead

Yeah. I was definitely a snob.

I was down on myself so much for what I saw as not pushing back sometimes that it had never occurred to me that took its own strength.

La madurez espiritual nunca es un fin en sí misma. Maduramos para dar.

Somos produto de nosso passado, mas não precisamos ser prisioneiros dele.

Recuerda cuánto has progresado, no únicamente cuánto te falta.

Puede que te lleve años, pero al fin descubrirás que el mayor estorbo a la bendición de Dios en tu vida no son los demás, sino tú mismo: tu propia voluntad, tu orgullo obstinado y tu ambición personal.

Somos producto de nuestro pasado, pero no tenemos que ser sus prisioneros.

When I got my library card, that's when my life began.

It's important to embrace several truths about yourself and those around you, beginning with this one: who you AREN'T isn't interesting.

Your ikigai is a work in progress because you are a work in progress. Knowing your ikigai, then, takes patience and insight, and courage, and honesty.

Some things you do for you. You do them because it gives you great satisfaction and it puts a smile on your face and that's it. And that's fine. It's not just fine, it's necessary. It makes you a better person, it fills your soul, it opens you up to life in its fullness. So don't apologize for it, enjoy it.

To be here is to embrace the spiritual challenge of your ikigai, doing the hard work of figuring out who you are and what you have to give the world. This is work we all have to do, because we're all a piece of work, in the endless process of exploring our ikigai.

There was a giant paradox there, hiding in that love. She didn't make any demands, but what that did was make me want to be a better person. She loved me exactly as I was, but what that produced in me was a tremendous desire to live up to that love.

one of the few things I've learned is that humans hardly ever learn from the experience of others. They learn—when they do, which isn't often—on their own, the hard way.

If I've reached the place where I'm a good influence on anybody, it's time I cultivated some new vices.

I was promoted to corporal. I was promoted seven times. To corporal.

duty is an adult virtue—indeed a juvenile becomes an adult when, and only when, he acquires a knowledge of duty and embraces it as dearer than the self-love he was born with.

Robert A. Heinlein

Curiously, people usually resist their good qualities even more emphatically than they resist facing their negative qualities. There may be a character in your dream who behaves in a noble and courageous way. Since that inner person is part of you, its qualities are also yours. So long as you are facing your negative and immature traits squarely, you also have a duty to acknowledge the fine qualities in yourself, and to live them consciously.