Quotes about Personal Growth

Toda relación que no favorezca la expansión del Yo, que impida el crecimiento, aun cuando sea estable y/ o aparentemente gratificadora, encierra el germen de su propia destrucción.

Cuanto más te muestre de mí y más te escuche, más voy a saber de mí. Y cuanto más sepa de mí, de mejores maneras voy a estar a cargo de mi persona. Y cuanto mejor esté a cargo de mi persona, menos dependiente seré del afuera.

que el presente sea aún mejor que el pasado, no significa que yo no tenga que elaborar el duelo.

Crecer significa aumentar el espacio que cada uno ocupa. En la medida que haya más espacio, habrá más posibilidades.

En muchos casos de separación el problema no se encuentra en la relación de uno con el otro, sino en asuntos no resueltos de uno de ellos (o de los dos) con su propio pasado.

No puedo definir mi camino desde ver el tuyo y no debo definirme a mí por el camino que estoy recorriendo.

Aprovechar los conflictos para el crecimiento personal, de eso se trata. En lugar de utilizar mi energía para cambiar al otro, utilizarla para observar qué hay de mí en eso que me molesta.

Loneliness does not worry me; life is difficult enough, putting up with yourself and with your own habits.

has gastado los años y te han gastado, y todavía no has escrito el poema.

ÎnÈ›elese c? nici un destin nu-i mai bun decât altul, dar c? fiecare om trebuie s? dea ascultare celui pe care-l poart? înl?untrul s?u.

As you grow older, you will have a decision to make. Will you focus more on the things that give you achievement and satisfaction and growth or on things that have an impact outside yourself?

Leadership is lifting a person's vision to higher sights, the raising of a person's performance to a higher standard, the building of a personality beyond its normal limitations. Peter F. Drucker and Joseph A. Maciariello, Management: Revised Edition, 2008, p. 288.

Opportunities to find deeper powers within ourselves come when life seems most challenging.

Perhaps some of us have to go through dark and devious ways before we can find the river of peace or the highroad to the soul's destination.

They thought that it would be a disgrace to go forth as a group. Each entered the forest at a point that he himself had chosen, where it was darkest and there was no path. If there is a path it is someone else's path and you are not on the adventure.

The big problem of any young person's life is to have models to suggest possibilities. Nietzsche says, 'Man is the sick animal.' Man is the animal that doesn't know what to do with itself. The mind has many possibilities, but we can live no more than one life. What are we going to do with ourselves?

The best way to help mankind is through the perfection of yourself.

Reading what you want, and having one book lead to the next, is the way I found my discipline.

Where we had thought to travel outward, we will come to the center of our own existence. And where we had thought to be alone, we will be with all the world.

One way or another, we all have to find what best fosters the flowering of our humanity in this contemporary life, and dedicate ourselves to that.

Joseph Campbell

Joseph Campbell

My friend had thought, "God did this to me." I told her, "No, you did it to yourself. The God is within you. You yourself are your creator. If you find that place in yourself from which you brought this thing about, you will be able to live with it and affirm it, perhaps even enjoy it, as your life.

To my mind, college is the place to expand, to overcome prejudices, to look at things through one's own eyes. Here the boy first stands upon his own feet. Hitherto he has been in the hands of others to mould, now he must mould himself. He must cut loose from old ideas.