Quotes about Personal Growth

I so wanted him to be my boyfriend-m destiny. But I realize now that destiny sort of implies that you don't have to figure things out for yourself. It suggests the promise of not making a mistake...the same as my boyfriend list. If I've learned anything this summer, it's that the more I insist on things being the way they're supposed to be, the more I'm prevented from seeing (and accepting) things the way they really are." (pg. 240)

Aquele negócio de autorrealização era difícil de mais, pensou ela. Nina mal estava conseguindo ler uma única palavra, e isso foi a gota d'água. Lennox até podia ter arruinado a vida sexual dela, sua paz de espírito, suas esperanças de ser feliz algum dia, seu ganha-pão. Mas NINGUÉM iria arruinar sua leitura.

No!" said Sofia. "I read! Self-help can be very useful." She gave her sister a meaningful look. "Really?" said Carmen. "As useful as Rainbow Rowell? Or Douglas Adams? I doubt it.

Just do something. You might make a mistake, then you can fix it. But if you do nothing, you can't fix anything. And your life might turn out full of regrets.

It's crazy, how similar we are. Here's both of us, working through our stuff, trying to make something positive out of something really bad.

Things can't stay the same forever, Annemarie. People change; they grow up. That's the way it's supposed to happen.

Girls with boyfriends, she'd said, limit themselves to a certain kind of college experience.

Peter no era el que necesitaba superar a Genevieve. Era yo

It's funny how much of who we are as babies is who we are as we get older.

Does this vision feel in line with what you were thinking?

Yo también estaba creciendo. Las cosas no podían seguir igual para siempre.

I don't want to make the same mistakes my parents made. I didn't want my love to fade away one day like an old scar. I wanted it to burn forever.

The story is good how about you

What matters to me is learning and growing, and getting to do what I love to do. As long as I can do that, I'm happy.

To change one's disposition is a greater achievement than to change one's dress. It is harder for us to part with arrogance than with gold and gems.

You went to somewhere to do something with an anticipated goal in mind, something you couldn't do elsewhere and be the same Self.

children are not things to be molded, but are people to be unfolded.

It's possible, when you've been married for twenty-five or thirty years, when your children have grown up and moved away, to keep coming back across the tail ends of conversations you started in a different decade, and to realize that whole areas of existence have lain dormant all that time, like seeds in an envelope. There's nothing unusual about that.

It seems like all the people who are really impressed with themselves in school -- it's like that's their whole life. What's after that? I was always attracted to the people who thought beyond school and of their future and who they would be as adults.

Parents try the best they can. They want the best for you. But a lot of their stuff is just their own. If you can pull yourself away from it and not always feel like they're attacking you, then it's easier to deal with.

There are three truths I have come to learn in the year since the Dragon War. The first is that both humans and dragons have the capacity to be good or evil. The second is that even if you're doing something you love, you can still become bored with your work. And the third is that my business partner, Marta, will never be finished with her wedding gown. Either one of them.

One is only really inwardly comfortable, so to speak, after one's life has assumed some sort of shape. Not just a routine, like studying or a job or being a housewife, but something more complete than all those, which would include goals set by oneself and a circle of life-time type friends. I think this is one of the hardest things to achieve, in fact often just trying doesn't achieve it but rather it seems to develop almost by accident.

It's not what you know-or when you see-that matters. It's about the journey.

Who was I if I had no one to blame for my life but myself?