Quotes about Personal Growth

Maybe this is common to all those who lose someone whom they have loved deeply. Making contact with another potential partner, another lover, becomes an act of reconstruction, a building not only of a relationship but also of oneself.

He had the funny feeling that doors long bolted within him were being forced, that in the general amnesty of carnival something jailed in him since puberty was being let out— somewhat by mistake— into the open air, to be welcomed by the cheering mob.

What I wonder is, maybe the world is growing older. Less all alive. Or is it only my growing older?

And we are never too old to study the Bible. Each time the lessons are studied comes some new meaning, some new thought which will make us better.

As long as we blame, as long as we avoid or deny, we remove from the realm of possibility the power to do something about our lives. We become totally dependent upon the ups and downs we create around us.

To speak to an audience day after day for a long period is to find out something about oneself. So often we don't know just what we think or feel about this subject or that till we have occasion to marshall our views and to put them into words.

The result of the educative process is capacity for further education.

The goal of education is to enable individuals to continue their education.

The good man is the man who, no matter how morally unworthy he has been, is moving to become better.

The path of least resistance and least trouble is a mental rut already made. It requires troublesome work to undertake the alteration of old beliefs.

Every person in therapy has a love disorder.

I've been a serial monogamist my whole life so I think at this point I'm just going to take a break.

When you become fully responisble for your life, you can become fully human; once you become human, you may discover what it mens to be a warrior.

But I suppose you must touch life in order to spring from it.

The more you create authentic power, the more the characteristics of authentic power become yours, and the more meaning, purpose and joy enter your life.

My coaches are always my friends. I've always had a coach a year of my life and they're really important part of being a better human for me.

I needed time to stand back and go through a lot more experience in life. Then I have something to write about, joke or to animate.

I now know that nothing in my life will change until I change the way I see my life and myself.

No longer is someone coming to hire you, to invest in your company, to sign you, to pick you. It's on you to make the most important decision in your life: Choose Yourself!

Of all the hurdles you will need to face in this life time the hardest will be your self imposed limitations

We cannot walk through life on mountain peaks.

Each person's life is a story that is telling itself in the living.

In proportion to the development of his individuality, each person becomes more valuable to himself, and is therefore capable of being more valuable to others. . . .

The only journeys worth taking in life are those that test us to the very core