Quotes about Personal Growth

But life isn't about finding yourself or finding anything, Dylan said, it's about creating yourself.

People never change because they are under threat or under duress. Never. They change because they see something that makes their life seem valuable enough to start moving toward a life worth living. -Robert Downey Jr.

el mundo no se detiene para que uno pueda compadecerse de sí mismo. Un día te despiertas y te das cuenta de que tienes que seguir caminando, porque… porque no puedes hacer otra cosa.

We'd be who we were, and we could either come to grips with this fact and like the person we'd become, or live with regret and disappointment.

grown a size larger, in Rowe's opinion. More than

spent a career finding interesting things to do with my life, and I've lived several lifetimes as a result. I can add this to the

We'd be who we were, and we could either come to grips with this fact and like the person we'd become, or live with regret and disappointment

Reality could be painful to acknowledge, but there came a point when we all realized we weren't going to walk on the moon, star in a Hollywood movie, or be president of the United States. We'd be who we were, and we could either come to grips with this fact and like the person we'd become, or live with regret and disappointment.

When you allow the elevation of a man, one can be sure that you'll profit by his advancement.

You got to where you are in your life right now by moving along the path of least resistance.

Lincoln never finished his education. To the night of his death he was a pupil, a learner, an inquirer, a seeker after knowledge. You have no idea how many men are spoiled by what is called education. For the most part, colleges are places where pebbles are polished and diamonds are dimmed. If Shakespeare had graduated at Oxford, he might

So, when we look upon a flower, a painting, a statue, a star, or a violet, the more we know, the more we have experienced, the more we have thought, the more we remember, the more the statue, the star, the painting, the violet has to tell.

The idea of suggesting that Strike stop lying to the women in his life occurred only to be dismissed, on the basis that the resolutions to stop smoking, lose weight and exercise were enough personal improvement to be getting on with.

La mancanza di critiche, o anche solo di una silenziosa disapprovazione da parte di Robin, era una cosa davvero singolare per Strike. Era l'unica persona di sesso femminile nella sua vita che non avesse cercato di migliorarlo o correggerlo.

We aren't our mistakes. It's what we do -about- the mistake that shows who we are. [Dr. Margot Bamborough to Gloria Conti]

The goal of discoverers is not to outdistance their peers, but to transcend themselves.

Don't ask for a criticism until you are sure you can't give it yourself. Then you will be in a fine state to receive it.

Of course, it is very difficult, and often impossible, for someone else to give you what you cannot find in yourself.

I could settle for being a man, or I could struggle to become a human being.

Any honest person working in a DDO will tell you there are times she would like a holiday from the DDO experience, but after you've worked in one, an ordinary workplace becomes for many the nice place to visit and not the place where you want to live.

It's the love you had that matters, isn't it, not the pain.

Most of our pocket wisdom is conceived for the use of mediocre people, to discourage them from ambitious attempts, and generally console them in their mediocrity.

In marriage, a man becomes slack and selfish, and undergoes a fatty degeneration of his moral being.

To be what we are, and to become what we are capable of becoming is the only end of life.