Quotes about Personal Growth

It's not nature versus nurture. It's nurturing your nature.

It's not the accumulation of knowledge, but the realization of the self that marks the true power of the warrior.

I like someone who is a little crazy but coming from a good place. I think scars are sexy because it means you made a mistake that led to a mess.

You get older and you learn there is one sentence just four worlds long and if you can say it to yourself it offers more comfort than almost any other. It goes like this… Ready " "Ready." "At least I tried.

She was becoming the person she'd be for her whole life. Each thing she chose contributed to that person. She didn't want to be like this.

It was a strange thing about college. You felt like you were supposed to be finding your life there. Each person you saw, you thought, Will you mean something to me? Will we figure into each other's lives?

can you make yourself love? can you make yourself be loved?

Later that night, I tore up the list of mean things to do to Aunt Cecelia.

Fires and all, it was one of my best experiences ever.

Chapter Fifteen

We need not come to the end of the path to experience the benefits of walking it.

With any teacher or book, take what resonates with you and leave the rest. Your own mind is your greatest teacher. Trust it.

I am grown in so many ways, but in front of my parents I am still a child. I am having a hard time throwing off the skin that I pick and peel. I am the only one who can do it, but I can't seem to let myself.

stopped smoking

Your life isn't something you can leave behind or run away from, because you are it. People, on the other hand, are another matter altogether.

It is now. But a trip like this? You will find something to fill it with. A truth of your own, that you discover on your own.

don't mistake a new place for a new you.

When you go to high school, and you're trying to figure yourself out, sometimes it takes doing things that you don't like in order to figure out what you don't like. But it's important to maintain your sense of self throughout the journey.

Only, don`t mistake a new place for a new you. I`ve done that more than once. You asked me before why I stay here. Maybe that`s why, he said, now that I think about it. Might as well deal with myself right here. It`s as good a place as any.

I've said that if you write, you're a writer. The reverse is also true: if you're a writer, you need to write. Even if you're not achieving certain career or artistic markers on your schedule, you'll be self-actualized or in the process of self-actualizing, and that's what helps equip you to give back to the world in a variety of ways.

The further you go, the more you have to be proud of. At the same time, in order to come a long way, you have to be behind to begin with. IN the end, though maybe it's not how you reach a place that matters. Just that you get there at all.

No one could tell you: you just had to go through it on your own. If you were lucky, you came out on the other side and understood. If you didn't, you kept getting thrust back, retracing those steps, until you finally got it right.

Story of my life.

At the same time, though, I was beginning to wonder if this was just how it was supposed to be for me, like perhaps I wasn't capable of having that many people in my life at any one time. My mom turned up, Nate walked away, one door opening as another clicked shut.