Quotes about Personal Growth

Let's make sure our ideas of success are our own, that we are truly the authors of our own ambitions.

As David lifted a suitcase onto the conveyor belt, he came to an unexpected and troubling realisation: that he was bringing himself with him on his holiday. Whatever the qualities of the Dimitra Residence, they were going to be critically undermined by the fact that he would be in the villa as well.

If we are not regularly deeply embarrassed by who we are, the journey to self-knowledge hasn't begun.

Ai không c?m th?y h? th?n khi nhìn l?i b?n thân n?m ngoái thì có l? ng??i Ä'ó Ä'ã h?c không ??.

love is the pursuit in another of qualities we lack in ourselves, then in our love of someone from another country, one ambition may be to weld ourselves more closely to values missing from our own culture.

We cannot be taught wisdom, we have to discover it for ourselves by a journey which no one can undertake

for a time we are relieved of our preoccupations and placed in a wider context that stills the incessant complaints of our egos.

the obstacle to our good development is not usually arrogance, but a lack of confidence.

a reason to start over new, the reason is you.

The equanimity with regard to my handwriting vanishes when I look at the corrections I make to a script...here my handwriting is big, childish, clumsy with no evidence of character and purpose... mine reverts to the all-over-the-place stuff I used to write while I was in the army and before I got to University... why I've no idea. But it is so.

Success is less about getting good, and more about letting good.

self-mastery is the goal of life, and controlling, bullying, or needing to fix others is a distraction from our true purpose.

our first responsibility is to remove the weeds from our own garden. We must take the high road ourselves before exhorting others to do so.

The things that bug you the most have the potential to open you the most.

On the other hand, Andrea had decided last month, on the occasion of her twelfth birthday and for no discernible reason (at least, none that an adult could discern), that from then on her given name would be Fitzwinkle. And then

Wherever God has planted you, you must know how to flower - translated from a French saying

Readers who wish to follow Whim rather than whim--readers who have learned enough about what he or she really thrives on to seek more of it--the first lesson must be in humility. . . . Don't waste time and mental energy in comparing yourself to others whether to your shame or gratification, since we are all wayfarers.

Masterpieces should be kept for High Holidays of the Spirit"—for our own personal Christmases and Easters, not for any old Wednesday.

Somehow, we need to create a new habit of mind, as individuals and as a society. We need a mental attitude that values and protects stillness, privacy, solitude, slowness, personal reflection; that honors the inner life; that allows each of us to wander about without schedule within our own minds.

The only currency worth anything is being true to yourself and the only goal worth seeking is finding out who you truly are.

will heal your wounds," he said, "but I will not facilitate your battles.

I shall unlearn feeling, unlearn my gift. That is greater and harder than what passes there for life.

As Joseph Campbell wrote about middle age, 'There is perhaps nothing worse than reaching the top of the ladder and discovering that you're on the wrong wall.

journey from knowing to becoming is the journey of transformation from Ravana to Ram.