Quotes about Personal Growth

Isaac Asimov escribió: «La educación autodidacta es, creo firmemente, el único tipo de educación que existe».

Everyone thinks of changing the world but no one thinks of changing himself.' Become a bigger person and you'll also automatically become a better leader—and a greater producer.

You're better off without me. And I don't want to be around when you realize it.

There is an expiry date for blaming your parents for steering you in the wrong direction. The moment you are old enough to take the wheel, responsibility lies with you.

A lifetime had to be crafted, just like anything else, she thought, it had to be moulded and beaten and burnished in order to get the most out of it.

And the further they go, the more they'll remember, they can take it from me.

One day you must tell me your full and complete story, unabridged and unexpurgated. You must. We will set aside some time for it, and meet. It's very important. Maneck smiled. Why is it important? Mr. Valmik's eyes grew wide. You don't know? It's extremely important because it helps to remind yourself of who you are. Then you can go forward, without fear of losing yourself in this ever-changing world.

Rockefeller was sensitive about adults who behaved in a high-handed fashion toward him. Having assumed so much responsibility at home, he now thought of himself as a mature person.

In his later years, William traded in his Baptist upbringing for a more epicurean life.

As he ventured timidly beyond the self-contained world of his youth, he could not just enjoy spontaneous pleasure and had to justify it in terms of self-improvement.

THE BRIDGE TO TOTAL FREEDOM is a journey that goes on and on (although confoundingly, in the Scientology metaphor, one moves "higher and higher"—up the Bridge rather than across it).

If I 'ad known zen what I know now.

then what I know now. Which phrase is used a lot.

I said, "I don't need no education.

She changed herself, by deciding it.

They say experience is the best teacher, but I'll be damned if I know what it teaches you.

Just about every human being can reflect on his or her past and say, 'I learned from that hardship. I didn't think I would at the time, but I'm a bigger and better person for having endured it and persevered.'

You are the sum total of all the life experiences you've gone through. You may wish you had chosen another path, but you didn't. You've been shaped by the many choices you've made, both the smart ones and the dumb ones. And here God is saying that he can take the raw material of who you are right now and customize a future of hope for you.

You know what you're getting here, I said. I'm still fairly far reduced. I may never be unabridged again. None of us are unabridged, as you are well aware.

Happiness comes only when we push our brains and hearts to the farthest reaches of which we are capable.

If you really want to understand the social world, if you really want to understand yourself and others, and, beyond that, if you really want to overcome many of the obstacles that prevent you from living your fullest, richest life, you need to understand the influence of the subliminal world that is hidden within each of us.

Tristo è quel discepolo che non avanza il suo maestro.

Accept responsibility for your life. Know that it is you who will get you where you want to go, no one else.

The things you want are always possible; it is just that the way to get them is not always apparent. The only real obstacle in your path to a fulfilling life is you, and that can be a considerable obstacle because you carry the baggage of insecurities and past experience.