Quotes about Personal Growth

Not every end is the goal. The end of a melody is not its goal; and yet: as long as the melody has not reached its end, it also hasn't reached its goal. A parable.

Man vergibt seinem Lehrer schlecht, wenn man immer nur der Schüler bleibt. (One repays a teacher badly if one always remains nothing but a pupil.)

Con ng??i là má»™t cái gì Ä'ó c?n ph?i v??t qua.

A light has dawned for me: I need companions, living ones, not dead companions and corpses which I carry with me wherever I wish. But I need living companions who follow me because they want to follow themselves— and who want to go where I want to go.

Back then you carried your ashes to the mountain; would you now carry your fire into the alley?

Be careful when you cast out your demons that you don't throw away the best of yourself.

the one who had lost the world attains its own world

But the worst enemy you can encounter will always be yourself.

The higher the love, the more demands will be made on us to conform to that ideal.

Mind you, after your silly debutantes have finished their proper posture and walking lessons, tell them it never killed any young lady to remove the book from off the top of her head and open it for a change. Just like I taught you.

We can't be free until we can tell our story, and only by telling it convincingly can we each do our bit to help the world grow up.

A little education goes a long way in accomplishing four essential goals.

No matter the wins and losses, you can control your attitude. You can control you coming into work each and every day with the right attitude and wanting to get better and trying to get better.

I start from scratch with each movie; I wipe the slate and I certainly don't rely on some bag of acting tricks I've amassed over the years.

If your parents only listen to jazz or folk, you're like one of those trees you see in botanic gardens that have wire frames on them - you grow into that shape, you follow it or you have to break away from it. But I didn't have influences to embrace or kick against - I also had no idea what anything was.

I've learned to recognize, a lot of it forced through the process of recovery, that I'm wired wrong in certain ways; the chemical balance of my brain is off in terms of depression a little bit.

The superior man blames himself. The inferior man blames others.

It is always our own self that we find at the end of the journey. The sooner we face that self, the better.

Virtues are acquired through endeavor, which rests wholly upon yourself.

You have to find out what's right for you, so it's trial and error. You are going to be all right if you accept realistic goals for yourself.

Do not seek to follow in the footsteps of the wise. Seek what they sought.

The monsters of our childhood do not fade away, neither are they ever wholly monstrous. But neither, in my experience, do we ever reach a plane of detachment regarding our parents, however wise and old we may become. To pretend otherwise is to cheat.

In retrospect, I've become wise in playing my roles in terms of acting techniques. But looking at my old performances when I was young like what I did in 'My Lovely Sam Soon' or 'Secret Garden,' there is something fresh and daring that I want to emulate now.

There are peaks and valleys in anything and that is especially true for the music business. It is very inconsistent. But if you are wise, you can let those downs really bring you to another level of your personality.