Quotes about Personal Growth

I told you, everyone understands a quest.

I took his wildness from him and tried to fold it into myself, filling up the empty spaces all those second place finishes left behind.

This is what daughters did. They left, and came home later with lives of their own.

I'd come here planning to leave as soon as I could. It was a pit stop, not a destination. I had my whole life mapped out. So what happened? I guess that map didn't turn out to be mine after all

The mistakes you make now count. Not for everything, and not forever. But they do matter, and they shape you.If you take nothing else from what I've been through, at least remember this: make your choices well. Because you'll always be accountable for them. That's what being an adult is all about.

My sister, who never understood most of the things I wanted her to, might have been able to understand what had happened to me in this summer of weddings and beginnings. And she was right. The first boy was always the hardest.

It was such a weird thing how a breakup stretched much wider than you expected. You didn't just lose a person, but their entire world as well.

I'd learn that it's not just where you go, but how you choose to get there. So I pulled that sign off the green bike - ENJOY YOUR RIDE! - and went inside to take the first step toward doing just that.

Relationships evolve, just like people do. Just because you know someone doesn't mean you know everything about them.

In the end, though, maybe it's not how you reach a place that matters. Just that you get there at all.

And so we stood there in the kitchen, my mother and I, facing off over everything that had built up since June, when I was willing to hand myself over free and clear. Now I needed her to return it all to me, with the faith that I could make my own way.

I'd been running for years: there was nothing scarier, to me, than to just be still with someone. And yet, there on that dark road, going home, I was.

The mistakes you make now count. Not for everything, and not forever. But they do matter, and they shape you.

Explain it to me. But I couldn't. I'd had to learn it my own way, and so had my mother. Jason would eventually, as well. 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.

It was a basic plot in any number of her books: girl strikes out, makes good, finds love, gets revenge. In that order. The making good and striking out part I liked. The rest would just be bonus.

I was thinking that maybe, by this point, I liked it better broken.

I still felt unformed, like a cake half baked with edges crisp, but still mushy in the middle.

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.

She was dressing for the life she wanted, not the one she had.

You told me once that I was just the first draft, and I'm inclined to believe you, but you came with a lot more pieces to assemble and Mom and Dad never got the manual.

Mutual Criticism required a member of the group to stand up in front of everybody and listen to the enumeration of his or her faults. The bright side of being that night's subject for criticism was the rare treat at Oneida of being the center of attention. The downside was that everyone you knew and loved was allowed, even encouraged, to look into your eyes and ask, "You know what your problem is?

A person can become tired of looking himself over and trying to fix himself up. You can spend the entire second half of your life recovering from the mistakes of the first half

Maybe the making of mistakes expressed the very purpose of his life and the essence of his being here.

Au cours d'une vie, chaque individu part en quete de son identite, parfois au milieu des autres;ceoendant lorsqu''i se trouve, c'est en lui-meme, pas a l'exterieur de lui.