Quotes about Personal Growth

Which of you by taking thought can add one cubit unto his stature?

The past is a good place to visit, but I wouldn't want to live there.

Everyone will experience failure for something. But the worse failure is not being able to conquer yourself.

Ahora depende solo de mí la manera de reaccionar ante lo que he llegado a ser y ante lo que pueda hacer con lo que soy.

Travel changes you. As you move through this life and this world you change things slightly, you leave marks behind, however small. And in return, life - and travel - leaves marks on you. Most of the time, those marks - on your body or on your heart - are beautiful. Often, though, they hurt.

Travel isn't always pretty. It isn't always comfortable. Sometimes it hurts, it even breaks your heart. But that's okay. The journey changes you; it should change you. It leaves marks on your memory, on your consciousness, on your heart, and on your body. You take something with you. Hopefully, you leave something good behind.

Hardly anyone has been told the following truth: In order to be genuinely happy there is one and only one thing you need to do: get deprogrammed, get rid of those attachments.

Before enlightenment, I used to be depressed: after enlightenment, I continue to be depressed." But there's a difference: I don't identify with it anymore.

That's what spirituality is all about, you know: unlearning. Unlearning all the rubbish they taught you.

Negative feelings are in you, not in reality. So stop trying to change reality. That's crazy! Stop trying to change the other person.

If it is peace you want, seek to change yourself, not other people. It is easier to protect your feet with slippers than to carpet the whole of the earth.

She does not want to be one of those middle-aged women who thinks of nothing but her own painful history.

I've flung a fly myself, he continues. I'm still learning it. I suppose we're all still learning. You learn and learn and then you die and you haven't learned half of it.

A second birth," Maria Montessori called it, when a child can move away from his mother on his own. And indeed Owen does seem like a new child, rarely crying, constantly at work on getting himself somewhere else.

the only person who knows your path to greatness is you.

I look on my divorce as a cleansing process. The water runs foul only when you step into the shower.' 'I'm sure.

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The only real failure in life is one not learned from.

Finding your feet in a new country provides an enormous boost to your confidence and independence.

It's impossible to be perfect, and you won't do a good job if you're too focused on proving yourself to others.

The biggest thing is becoming a better player and proving your doubters wrong.

I was so adamant about proving myself for so long and I've gotten to the point where I don't have to do that as much.

I look forward to proving something to myself and others.

Once I hit 45, there was a real downturn. But I got an incredibly provocative, delicious lead role in a television series called 'Saving Grace,' and I loved the character.