Quotes about Personal Growth

I'm 31 now. I think I'm beginning to understand what life is, what romance is, and what a relationship means.

Individuals who continually play it safe in life, taking the path of least resistance and risk, deny themselves rich opportunities for personal growth. Some

It wasn't often that anyone admitted their mistakes to Mercedes; the default posture of poverty was defense. Cesar told her that he hoped his degree would make Mercedes proud of him when he came home.

I'm a teenager, but I'm independent - I have my own apartment, I have my own life. And I think I have learned more than any of those teenagers have in school. I learned to be responsible, leaving my family and coming here alone.

I've never felt that I had to take a role in order to further my career. I'm always looking for roles that challenge me as an actor and as a person.

I believe in taking risks and trying new things, both in my personal life and in my career.

My state of being. Well, I'd gone from pissed off, lonely, sad, frightened, and depressed, to being a little wiser, a little stronger, a little more resilient. I'd survived.

An honorable human relationship--that is, one in which two people have the right to use the word "love"--is a process, delicate, violent, often terrifying to both persons involved, a process of refining the truths they can tell each other.

I refuse to become a seeker for cures. Everything that has ever helped me has come through what already lay stored in me. Old things, diffuse, unnamed, lie strong across my heart. This is from where my strength comes, even when I miss my strength even when it turns on me like a violent master.

Everyone has different goals. For myself, I would rather take less roles and be working on films that I'm passionate about, that are going to challenge me, and that I'm going to be growing from. I don't ever want to take a movie just for the sake of working.

I used to write songs that were deeply personal, but since I am becoming so passionate about the world around me, that passion and drive is starting to come into my work.

I can't dwell on past mistakes.

I remember, in middle school, I went to four different schools. That was a rough patch. But it's also what shaped me as a person.

I went through some pretty rough patches in my life, and I've come out of them a stronger, more inspired, and energetic person.

My path has not been determined. I shall have more experiences and pass many more milestones.

Everyone has a different path and journey.

You won't ever get clarity in life. You have to overcome the hazy path yourself.

Tell him, on the contrary, that he needs, in the interest of his own happiness, to walk in the path of humility and self-control, and he will be indifferent, or even actively resentful.

I think all the bad things I have been through are in the past. I believe I am on the right path now, dealing with the people who can help me, the right kind of people.

Being over at Ford offers a much clearer path in my development.

Everybody makes his path differently.

I mean I am not Hilary Duff. Like I have my own path that I'm going to go on.

Look, nobody is ever exactly the same as anybody else. You're handed the cards you are for a particular reason, so you follow that path and see where it takes you.

For whatever reason, I decided: 'I'm 18, I'm a man, I'm going to grow a moustache' - and it was pathetic for years - it was awful.