Quotes about Personal Growth

Revolution begins with the self, in the self.

I don't consider myself a massive self-promoter, and I don't feel I've ever had to behave in a way that didn't come natural to me in order to progress.

I've always been confident in my rugby ability but with England I had to adjust my behaviour.

Sometimes, being a girl away from home - it gets to you.

After I'd gotten a year under my belt in college, I thought I'd outgrown my home.

a work that no one on the planet can do for us, no matter how much they would want to, no matter how much love they have for us, no matter how badly they feel for us, no matter how much they are helping us in the ways that they can help.

But waking up is ultimately something that each one of us can only do for ourselves. When it comes down to it, wherever you go, there you are

But at times I wondered if I had not come a long way only to find that what I really sought was something I had left behind. Thomas F. Hornbein

Lincoln replied, "Yes, I have; and I don't think much of a man who is not wiser today than he was yesterday.

If ever I'm disheartened by failures such as these, I simply reflect on my humble beginnings and marvel at the enormous distance I have travelled since then.

Everyone thinks they have strict limits," she said, "until they cross them.

Y se fue. Y ella se convirtió en mejor lectora.

It's nice to be able to control my smell environment, and I can hear myself think better when it's quiet. It wasn't easy to become a person who's OK being alone on a Saturday night, but I did the work, I got there...

Our strengths are not our own until they are freed of the burden of having to heal the past.

The bruises go away, and so does how you hate, and so does the feeling that everything you receive from life is something you have earned.

The wanting, the needing, the distance, the disappointment: growing, knowing, committing, aging beside another. Alone, one can live perfectly. But not a life.

It stayed with him, like a part of him, like a birthmark, like a limb, it was on him, in him, him, his hymn: I had to do it for myself.

So, then why am I your son? Because Mom and I made love, and one of my sperm fertilized one of her eggs. Excuse me while I regurgitate. Don't act your age.

I regret that it takes a life to learn how to live. Because if I were able to live my life again, I would do things differently. I would change my life.

il te faut seulement comprendre que te retrouver à la case départ n'est pas une régression. Te retrouver quelque part, c'est une déjà une bonne chose en soi - cela veut dire que tu as conscience de ce que tu fais.

I had to do it for myself.

Todas nuestras neurosis empiezan cuando tratamos de ser lo que no somos.

La búsqueda en cuestión... es un camino sin metas pero con grandes satisfacciones; es un recorrido sin mapas pero con un rumbo; es un sendero único y personal pero abierto a todos; es una ruta sin final pero que puede dejarse en cualquier momento; es un viaje que algunas veces no es el resultado de una elección y que, a pesar de eso, está siempre lleno de decisiones.

De hecho, somos quienes somos gracias a todo lo perdido y a cómo nos hemos conducido frente a esas pérdidas.