Quotes about Personal Growth

Some people think you begin to grow up when you stop trying to figure out who you are.

I twist my heart round again, so that the bad is on the outside and the good is on the inside, and keep trying to find a way of becoming what I would so like to be, and what I could be, if…there weren't any other people living in the world.

Siempre decías que un hombre aprende cosas y cuando deja de aprenderlas es como todos los demás

A person needs new experiences. They jar something deep inside, allowing you to grow. Without them, it sleeps- seldom to awaken. The sleeper must awaken.

if I'd been born in my grandfather's time, I'd have made my grandfather's mistakes. There's no doubt of it. I just don't want to make my grandfather's mistakes today.

I'm the well-trained fruit tree, he thought. Full of well-trained feelings and abilities and all of them grafted onto me—all bearing for someone else to pick.

She felt that her body had walked into this place with her soul creeping behind.

Climb the mountain just a little bit to test that it's a mountain. From the top of the mountain, you cannot see the mountain.

Paul crawled through the sphincter

Religion must remain an outlet for people who say to themselves, 'I am not the person I want to be.' It must never sink into an assemblage of the self satisfied.

Religion must remain an outlet for people who say to themselves, 'I am not the kind of person I want to be.' It must never sink into an assemblage of the self-satisfied.

El miedo es la pequeña muerte que conduce a la destrucción total. Afrontaré mi miedo. Permitiré que pase sobre mí y a través de mí. Y cuando haya pasado, giraré mi ojo interior para escrutar su camino. Allá donde haya pasado el miedo ya no habrá nada. Solo estaré yo.

All sentient beings are created unequal. The best society provides each with equal opportunity to float at his own level. — The Gowachin Primary

adult beefswelling

Stock your minds and you can move through the world resplendent.

You have to study and learn so that you can make up your own mind about history and everything else, but you can't make up an empty mind. Stock your mind, stock your mind. It is your house of treasure and no one in the world can interfere with it. [...] Your mind is your house and if you fill it with rubbish (...) it will rot in your head. You might be poor, your shoes might be broken, but your mind is a palace.

For many writers, the journal is their opportunity to be honest with them- selves—the greatest test of all.

the re-building process may not be as comfortable as before.

So many of our troubles flow from a defective use of the intelligence or will or energy we have, that we are in danger of thinking that all our troubles could be cured by a better use of our own powers—

Two tasks at the beginning of your life: to narrow your orbit more and more, and ever and again to check whether you are not in hiding somewhere outside your orbit.

I am forever chained to myself; that's what I am, and that's what I must try to live with.

The road is endless, there are no shortcuts and no detours, and yet everyone brings to it their own childish haste.

I shall move somewhere into the woods and try to improve myself.

I took a semester off to film 'Scream Queens,' which was a great decision because it was an incredibly wild experience that did a lot for me as far as my career.