Quotes about Personal Growth

Vyasa draws attention to a peculiar human trait of trying to solve a problem through external means without bringing about any internal transformation.

way. Ben stayed on.

People don't have these tidy little redemption arcs in reality the way they do in movies.

Diana Norman

We've known each other for a while," I said. "And our feelings just ... blossomed." "Like fungus off rotted meat?" Josh snarked.

My travels led me to where I am today. Sometimes these steps have felt painful, difficult, but led me to greater happiness and opportunites.

I can be a better me than anyone can.

Most of us travel through life with heavy, bulky emotional baggage. To our great relief, with meditative practices and their healing modalities, we can shrink this baggage to carry-on size.

Moon. That's when we want things to grow and get bigger and bigger. Even if you want to lose weight, when it comes to a vision board, think of the weight

Get rid of bad habits, difficult relationships, and anything else that is personally toxic, such as negative thinking.

went wrong with Celia, too, she

It was me—the weak-willed, easily seduced, insecure girl I'd become. I was the obstacle I'd be carrying around with me for the rest of my life.

At times she's so basic, at others so wise it frightens me that I got so far in this world without the benefit of such knowledge.

Its the journey that counts, not the arrival.

You'll never have any mental muscle if you don't have any heavy stuff to pick up.

The most important relationship in your life is the relationship you have with yourself. Because no matter what happens, you will always be with yourself.

I can't tell anybody else how to run their life or their business, but I really believe I've got a good bead on myself.

If you try to follow everyone else and be like everyone else, before you know it you're gone. You're not going to find yourself again; you'll just be a version of what you might have hoped to have been.

It would be better to have a new enemy, wouldn't it, instead of an old one? The demons of the past were the hardest to slay.

I then took him to beyond the death experience and had him look back at the entire life, and see what the lesson was. Dan: To do something. To make the most of any situation that you've created. People are going to be what they're going to be. And it's up to you to be what you're going to be. So you can take responsibility for yourself, or you can never do anything. And that gets you nowhere. Which is worse, not accomplishing anything when you know you can.

No matter how happy a person may be in a certain lifetime, eventually the lessons are learned and nothing more can be gained by staying there. It is then time for the spirit to move on to more profound and complex lessons. The spirit must advance.

I like learning new stuff, and continuing to educate myself as best I can.

we tend to steer our lives in the direction of the lessons we need to learn

I complained to a friend that although I had completed six years in therapy, my mother still wouldn't let me go. He replied, "She's not supposed to let you go. Your father is supposed to come and get you.