Quotes about Personal Growth

People , she used to think, do not change, they are merely revealed.

Parents can only give good advice or put them on the right paths, but the final forming of a person's character lies in their own hands.

Parents can only give good advice or put them on the right paths, but the final forming of a person's character lies in their own hands.

We need to stop focusing on them and ask God to open our eyes to our own faults.

Those who urge us to fight ageing are, in effect, inviting us to stop growing and developing

Before, the woods had always done so much for me. Once I could actually go out into the woods and communicate with God, or Nature or something. Now that something didn't come through. It was just not there anymore. More than ever I began to wonder whether God actually existed. Maybe God changed as the individual changed, or perhaps grew as one grew.

Meanwhile in my head, I'm undergoing open-heart surgery.

Today, my small child, Joyce, love your self's self where it lives.

She is so naked and singular. She is the sum of yourself and your dream. Climb her like a monument, step after step. She is solid.

I'm beginning to think that maybe it's not just how much you love someone. Maybe what matters is who you are when you're with them.

It is not how much you love someone, but who you are when you are with him.

It seems to me that since I've had children, I've grown richer and deeper. They may have slowed down my writing for a while, but when I did write, I had more of a self to speak from.

You need to claim the events of your life to make yourself yours.

shapes we had to take in order to please others: the shapes that we hate. Our true selves are the selves we would have been had no one tried to break or shame or change us. Our true selves are what those who actually love us see in us. Our true selves are who we have always been, even if they have been in hiding all this time. Our true selves are who we will, in that sheer blue zone above self-loathing, always be.

And yet what has been learned can be unlearned.

When a boy's first romantic interlude is with Phoebe the Dog-Faced Girl, he feels a need to get out into the world and find a new life.

Self-serving bias has immediate and obvious consequences for our ability to learn from experience.

We can't just "absorb" experiences and expect to learn. As novelist and philosopher Aldous Huxley recognized, "Experience is not what happens to a man; it is what a man does with what happens to him." There is a big difference between getting experience and becoming an expert. That difference lies in the ability to identify when the outcomes of our decisions have something to teach us and what that lesson might be.

thinking in bets is not a miracle cure. Thinking in bets won't make self-serving bias disappear or motivated reasoning vanish into thin air. But it will make those things better. And a little bit better is all we need to transform our lives.

The world looks very different to me now at twenty. I have outgrown my early opinions and ideals with my short dresses, just as Mrs. Walton said we would. Now the critics can say 'Thou waitest till thy woman's fingers wrought the best that lay within thy woman's heart.

I want to branch out. I want to write. I write poetry. I want to see my children grow up well.

If it is true that you are what you eat, it may just as accurately be said that you are what you listen to. STEVEN HALPERN

To reach a great height a person needs to have great depth.

Challenge yourself with something you know you could never do, and what you'll find is that you can overcome anything.