Quotes about Personal Growth

To the question of your life, you are the only answer. To the problems of your life, you are the only solution.

Of all the people you will know in a lifetime, you are the only one you will never leave or lose. To the question of your life, You are the only answer. To the problems of your life, You are the only solution.

The goal is for your mid-life crisis to turn into a mid-life discovery.

Each time she told me, 'Hon, leaving you with Addie was the best thing I could have done for you. You need constants in your life.' She had a different hair color each time she said it.

Sonia] Sotomayor resisted comparisons with other justices, saying she considered them counterproductive. Speaking generally, she said that throughout her life she knew there would always be someone who would seem smarter, faster, and better. She said the comparisons she preferred were personal to her: 'Am I learning? Am I getting better?

A strong intention is the single most important requirement to bring about growth and change, because intention provides the energy that motivates our continuing efforts.

Awareness of the little ways that we tend to be dishonest with ourselves leads to great strides in applying honesty and integrity to all our interactions.

Prayer that is regular confounds both self-importance and the wiles of the world. It is so easy for good people to confuse their own work with the work of creation. It is so easy to come to believe that what we do is so much more important than what we are. It is so easy to simply get too busy to grow.

Show me a person who has never made a mistake and I'll show you someone who has never achieved much.

Conquering fears, whatever they may be, opens life up—and this life should be as full of different experiences as we can make it. Too many women build fences around themselves, especially as they grow older. They limit themselves, or feel that life has limited them.

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We are all born with a unique genetic blueprint, which lays out the basic characteristics of our personality as well as our physical health and appearance... And yet, we all know that life experiences do change us.

No person could fill twenty-six years of lack. And each personality had learned from experience that is was less painful to set limits than to have some external person set limits for us. (95)

This stuff of a past not worthily lived is also medicine.

Listen. I wish I could tell you it gets better. But, it doesn't get better. You get better.

Motherhood is about raising and celebrating the child you have, not the child you thought you would have. It's about understanding that he is exactly the person he is supposed to be. And that, if you're lucky, he just might be the teacher who turns you into the person you are supposed to be.

But all Austen's heroines are women who can change over time, to grow into what they're meant to be, and encourage their legion of readers to do the same.

I began to have an idea of my life, not as the slow shaping of achievement to fit my preconceived purposes, but as the gradual discovery and growth of a purpose which I did not know.

At twenty-nine you can't waste your time reading.

You didn't hurt me, babe," he said. "You marked me. Big difference. That night was the most important thing that's ever happened in my life. Holding you, catching Noah—it changed me forever. I didn't want to forget. So when the bruises started to fade, I went and got them inked, so I couldn't.

I know it's hard to believe because I'm such a giant asshole, but I don't want you to be unhappy.

Horse had been by himself for a long time, and he was in need of the occasional attitude adjustment. I'd already lived with one asshole and I wasn't in the market for another one.

At least being nuts is being somewhere.

You don't get to pick who you are in this life, but you can decide what you become.