Quotes about Personal Growth

I had learned to transcend my skewed limitations by changing my perception. Understanding that process on an intellectual level is the beginning. Practicing it on an emotional level is success. I created new dreams

It isn't time that's passing by, it is you and I. It

Many folk's troubles would be less Could they be brought to understand That oft they cause their own distress, And hold its cure in their own hand. ~ Snippet from The Faith Cure by A.G. SHIRREFF

Lessons learned are not lessons learned unless you learn them.

I live a real life, man. It's complex. Some days are absolute diamonds and some days are dog shit, same as everybody else. Unfortunately, some days that are diamonds I've taken them and turned them into doing shit. But you live and you learn. I'm 42. I'll get wiser.

While I was trying to save money to go to the National Institute of Dramatic Art in Australia I ended up getting all of this experience which meant that by the time I had enough money in the bank to go to school I didn't really need to go to school anymore.

Life is not advancement. It is growth. It does not move upward, but expands outward, in all directions.

To separate yourself from your weakness and look at it objectively is a very powerful thing.

The beautiful thing about meditation is that it allows you to access that cool guy or girl inside of you that's waiting to come out. You'll be able to access the part of you that people like to be around. The part of you that feels upbeat about things. That feels like you're moving toward your goals without frustration and anxiety. That feels ecstatic to be alive! The more I meditate, the more I have these moments.

The fat just walks away

I cannot transform myself, or anyone else for that matter. What I can do is create the conditions in which spiritual transformation can take place, by developing and maintaining a rhythm of spiritual practices that keep me open and available to God.

Growing up, I was utterly oblivious to the fact that Mom was teaching me all that. But I was instantly aware of her final lesson, which was hidden in her notes and leters. As I read them I began to understand that in the end you are the only one who can make yourself happy. More important, Mom showed me that it is never too late to find out how to do it.

And just because I've written this book, don't think I've changed. I'm like I was back then, really.

Hiçbiri insan? insan yapan ?eyin ?ahsiyet oldu?unu, bütün ilimlerin, bütün tecrübelerin yaln?z bunu temine yarad???n? anlamam??t?r.

insan münasebetlerinde bir noktada ta? kesilmi? gibi kal?namayaca??n?, ileriye at?lmayan her ad?m?n insan? geriye götürdü?ünü ve yakla?t?rmayan anlar?n muhakkak uzakla?t?rd???n? karanl?k bir ?ekilde seziyor ve içimde sessizce yanan, fakat günden güne büyüyen bir endi?enin yer etmeye ba?lad???n? hissediyordum.

Dün ak?amdan beri ne Hamdi, ne de ben hakikatte de?i?mi? de?ildik; neysek gene oyduk; buna ra?men onun bana dair, benim ona dair ö?rendi?imiz baz? ?eyler, küçük ve teferruata ait ?eyler bizi ayr? istikametlere al?p götürmü?lerdi...

Vigilance helps grow a person character

My ability to respond is limitless, but my ability to act is limited. I am one hundred percent responsible for everything I am and everything I am not, for my capacities and my incapacities, for my joys and my miseries. I am the one who determines the nature of my experience in this life and beyond. I am the maker of my life.

essentially limited. In the long term, if you deny

You may be carrying around a sackful of stinking garbage. Either you can smear yourself with it and get terribly miserable, or you can make good manure out of it and create a wonderful garden.

All I had done was to improve on their strategy, and it was the beginning of a very important lesson in life - that anytime you find someone more successful than you are, especially when you're both engaged in the same business - you know they're doing something that you aren't.

All I had was to improve on their strategy [...] anytime you find someone more successful than you are, especially when you're both engaged in the same business—you know they're doing something that you aren't.

And that was how, after twelve years of never thinking for as much as five minutes about myself, I became able finally to muster the nerve, and the strength, to start facing the facts, to think for myself.

All I had done was to improve on their strategy, and it was the beginning of a very important lesson in life—that anytime you find someone more successful than you are, especially when you're both engaged in the same business—you know they're doing something that you aren't.