Quotes about Personal Growth

He was explaining the six universal human needs: certainty, variety, love, significance, growth, and contribution.

I]nsikten om genetikens betydelse, och om hur slumpmässiga de miljöbetingade influenserna är, kan göra det lättare för oss att acceptera och till och med njuta av att vi är som vi är, rent genetiskt. I stället för att sträva efter att vara någon som vi placerar på en befängt hög piedestal, kan det vara värt att pröva att söka efter sitt genetiska jag och försöka trivas med sig själv.

Before I was reading science fiction, I read Hemingway. Farewell to Arms was my first adult novel that said not everything ends well. It was one of those times where reading has meant a great deal to me, in terms of my development - an insight came from that book.

We're not on our journey to save the world but to save ourselves. But in doing that you save the world. The influence of a vital person vitalizes." | Joseph Campbell

Most of life's battles are fought inside ourselves, & our greatest periods of growth usually come during crises.

The Dalai Lama has said, "Don't try to use what you learn from Buddhism to be a better Buddhist; use it to be a better whatever-you-already-are.

IWhen you know something, you know it, and when you don't, you'd better learn. And in the meantime, you should keep quiet, or at least speak only when what you say will advance the learning process.

Be the star of your own life.

Leave old pains alone. When they cease coming to call, do not invite them back.

It doesn't matter who a man's father is. Your parents made a child, but it's up to you to make the man you'll be.

A man has to have a purpose in life. I know this now, but it took me the first score years of my life to learn it. In that I scarcely think myself unique.

She could be shaped by her past without being trapped by it" p. 283

I have never been wise.

Be now what you must be to succeed at the end of your journey, and when the end comes, you will find it is just another beginning.' Althea

Then I thought about it and wondered if I would ever reach a place in which I ceased finding out how stupid I could be.

Truly, the girl had grown up. Althea recalled ashamedly that she had once felt that some hardship would improve Malta. Undoubtedly she had been improved, but the cost had been high.

I went from the practice courts still bearing every problem that I had brought there with me, but buoyed with the idea that perhaps I possessed the wherewithal to face them.

Once you are a father, you have to try to be a better man than you truly are.

I look back now and realize that the gift of a true friend is that she sees you not the way you see yourself or the way others see you. A true friend sees you for who you are and who you can become.

My mama told me in college, 'I love you, and you're God's child, but natural beauty will only take you so far.'

investing in yourself is the best investment you will ever make. it will not only improve your life, it will improve the lives of all those around you.

Never be a prisoner of your past. Become the architect of you future. You will never be the same.

Individuality is cherished and nurtured

He still had on last night's trousers. Not a good sign. However, she had not killed him in his sleep—and that was a good sign. She was probably saving his execution for later, when he could feel it. He stood up straight in front of the mirror. He stuck out his hairy chest. He flexed, popping out tattooed biceps. I am a marine, he said to himself. She is five foot three. He sagged visibly. Who am I kidding? was his next thought. He