Quotes about Personal Growth

Our business in life is not to get ahead of other people, but to get ahead of ourselves.

Don't you think it was a little selfish to travel around the world looking for yourself?" She always answered, "You know what? I actually think it would have been a little selfish to spend the rest of my life in narcissistic, depressive, anxious misery. That person adds nothing to society, adds nothing to any room that she enters, adds nothing to the people whom she touches. The best community service I can possibly offer the world is to stay healthy and sane.

It turns out that we each have our own built-in GPS that leads us toward happiness in the form of an expansion/contraction feedback system. If you feel more expanded, you're going in the right direction; if you feel contracted, it's time for a course correction.

If any man can convince and show me that I do not think or act right, I will gladly change; for I seek truth, by which no man was ever injured. But he is injured who abides in his error and ignorance.

Thou art an old man; no longer let this be a slave, no longer be pulled by the strings like a puppet to unsocial movements, no longer either be dissatisfied with thy present lot, or shrink from the future. All

67. Nature did not blend things so inextricably that you can't draw your own boundaries—place your own well-being in your own hands. It's quite possible to be a good man without anyone realizing it. Remember that.

It is ridiculous not to escape from one's own vices, which is possible, while trying to escape the vices of others, which is impossible.

It should be a man's task, says the Imitation, 'to overcome himself, and every day to be stronger than himself.

Be concerned only that your own thoughts, words, and actions are just and generous. In the race of life, stay in your own lane and focus on the finish line; don't gawk at the missteps of others.

It should be a man's task, says the Imitation, 'to overcome himself, and every day to be stronger than himself.

71. It's silly to try to escape other people's faults. They are inescapable. Just try to escape your own.

Give thyself time to learn something new and good, and cease to be whirled around. But then thou must also avoid being carried about the other way.

that my life wanted some redress and cure.

That I had the kind of brother I did. One whose character challenged me to improve my own. One whose love and affection enriched my life. That my children weren't born stupid or physically deformed. That I wasn't

Spend not the remnant of thy days in thoughts and fancies concerning other men

Acostumbrarme a la idea de que es necesario corregir el carácter y vigilar las inclinaciones

If any one can prove and bring home to me that a conception or act of mine is wrong, I will amend it, and be thankful. For I seek the truth, whereby no one was ever harmed. But he is harmed who persists in his own self-deception and ignorance.

How can we all grow?

I am not my childhood,' Snowman says out loud.

I'm working on my own life story. I don't mean I'm putting it together; no, I'm taking it apart.

I wasn't even sure I wanted a man in my life again; by that time I'd exhausted the notion that the answer to a man is another man, and I was out of breath.

What people want is perfection, said the man. In themselves. But they need the steps to it to be pointed out, said the woman. In a simple order, said the man. With encouragement, said the woman. And a positive attitude.

Our fragments made us.

I felt confused, and also inadequate; whatever he was asking or demanding, it was beyond me. this was the first time a man would expect more from me than i was capable of giving, but it wouldn't be the last.