Quotes about Personal Growth

ought to have read more, for I find I don't know anything, and it mortifies me.

I'd taken a pink eraser to my childhood and blurred the pain.

Pierpont began to emerge from his father's shadow and take charge of major deals.

I have learned that I cannot see into a person's heart to know his spiritual condition. All I can do is tell the jagged tale of my own spiritual journey and declare that my life has been the better for having followed Christ.

Crecemos con el poderoso mensaje de nuestros progenitores calentándonos la cabeza y a menudo terminamos creyendo que sus deseos son nuestros deseos y que somos resposables de sus carencias

Crecemos como bonsáis, torturados y podados y empequeñecidos por las circunstancias, las convenciones, los prejuicios culturales, los imperativos sociales, los traumas infantiles y las expectativas familiares. #HonrarALosPadres.

And in this life, nothing good is truly lost. It stays part of a person, becomes part of their character.

That I made a mistake, and that mistake doesn't define me.

for anyone else until you have wisely and effectively understood and undertaken to change yourself?

for how can you become wise and effective for anyone else until you have wisely and effectively understood and undertaken to change yourself?

Down to Gehenna or up to the Throne, He travels the fastest who travels alone.

Harriet was silent, thinking, and then she said, It is too hard to be a person. You don't only have to go on and on. You have to be-- she looked for the word she needed and could not find it. Then, You have to be tall as well, said Harriet.

The unexamined life is not worth living'...Socrates made provocative remarks like this famous one as part of his daily practice in Athens in the late fourth century B.C. When he made these statements, he was invariably exhorting his fellow Greeks to avoid falling into the trap of what we might call 'ethical complacency,' the point at which an individual ceases trying to become a better person.

The grown-up is only a thin coat of chocolate over the hard nut of the child. Whatever you were as a kid, you still are when the chocolate gets licked off or scraped off.

I felt it wouldn't kill me to learn something before I died

Nothing feels as good as building a team and empowering people, watching them grow and thrive.

In the end you are the only one who can make yourself happy, More important, Mom showed me that it is never too late to find out how to do it.

I'd never really

Self-esteem isn't an emotion. Self-esteem is just self-knowledge, a solid understanding of your limitations. It's living according to your own standards.

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And to contend with the whole world is a comfort, but to contend with oneself dreadful.

If a person does not become what he understands, then he does not understand it either.

he who will not pass through this curriculum is helped very little by the fact that he was born in the most enlightened age.

To strive against the whole world is a comfort, to strive with oneself is dreadful.