Quotes about Personal Growth

all good things come from what is inside you.

True nobility lies in being superior to your former self.

Someone once asked Dad: "But what do you want to save time for? What are you going to do with it?" "For work, if you love that best," said Dad. "For education, for beauty, for art, for pleasure." He looked over the top of his pince-nez. "For mumblety-peg, if that's where your heart lies.

Let the world change you and you can change the world

Though we may create many beautiful works of art, the most important works of art to which we will ever give ourselves are the lives we live.

Discipleship...a process of unleashing the creative potential in each person.

eres el tipo de persona que se ha dado por vencido no solo en la vida, sino también contigo mismo?

a discovery you make yourself is worth twenty thousand things that you are taught, even if it is a discovery that everyone else has made.

Sometimes, when we seek the gaze of another, it isn't our partner we are turning away from, but the person we have become. We are not looking for another lover so much as another version of ourselves.

Today, our sexuality is an open-ended personal project; it is part of who we are, an identity, and no longer merely something we do.

VarrónÅ' lányaként nÅ'ttem fel, és gyakran érzem úgy, hogy a munkám egy ruhapróbához hasonlít. Nem kísérletezem azzal, hogy mindenkire ugyanazt a ruhát adjam.

From his perspective, things are clear. "I want to rebuild with you, not rehash the same things over and over." I have explained to him that repetition helps restore coherence and is intrinsic to healing;

Today in the West most of us are going to have two or three significant long-term relationships or marriages. And some of us are going to do it with the same person. When a couple comes to me in the aftermath of an affair, I often tell them this: Your first marriage is over. Would you like to create a second one together?

I help them learn how to relinquish control intentionally, as a means of personal growth and self-discovery

I do not want you children to use my untimely death, or any setback that life may deliver, as an excuse not to take responsibility for yourselves.

I really see no other solution than to turn inwards and to root out all the rottenness there. I no longer believe that we can change anything in the world until we first change ourselves. And that seems to me the only lesson to be learned.

You had to suffer shipwreck through your own efforts before you were ready to seize the lifebelt he threw you. Believe me, I know from my own experience that the Master knows you and each of his pupils much better than we know ourselves. He reads in the souls of his pupils more than they care to admit.

How far the pupil will go is not the concern of the teacher and Master. Hardly has he shown him the right way when he must let him go on alone.

archery is still a matter of life and death to the extent that it is a contest of the archer with himself;

You had to suffer shipwreck through your own efforts before you were ready to seize the lifebelt he threw you.

No one starts out with the answers. You figure them out as you go and you learn from the people who figured them out before you.

Andrew Martin

Is it easy? Usually not. But you don't forgive people for their benefit. You do it for your benefit.

Lo que cuenta no es dónde empiezas, sino dónde decides terminar.