Quotes about Personal Growth

You wake up in the morning and you look at your old spoon, and you say to yourself, 'Mick, it's time to get yourself a new spoon.' And you do.

My limits are limitless. I find my limits every time I act.

The first time I went to therapy, I had to stop going because they were making me hate my parents.

It does take a long time and a lot of paint to become our own artist.

The challenge is not to manage time, but to manage ourselves.

Oh, but Aunt Polly, Aunt Polly, you haven't left me any time at all just to- to live.

For once I'm not the guy losing my temper all the time.

We both have a lot of things to work on.

Crazy gets better; consciences don't grow back, and narcissists and histrionics never learn to give up center stage or their beloved mirrors.

It's so much easier to write a resume than to craft a spirit.

For so long I'd thought about myself as a girl who'd walked away from her mother's life that it would be a long time before I would start to think about the other part of the bargain, how easily she'd let me go.

Get a life in which you are not alone. Find people you love, and who love you. And remember that love is not leisure, it is work. Each time I look at my diploma, I remember that I am still a student, still learning every day how to be human.

People froze you in place. More important, you froze yourself, often into a person in whom you truly had no interest.

The problem was that she'd thought that at a certain point she would be a finished product.

Our ability to understand, to embrace, to help, to know, to feel and to love is bounded only by our own emotional ambitions. The capacity to open ourselves up to one another is as huge as we dare to make it.

People froze you in place, Rebecca sometimes thought, trudging through the woods. More important, you froze yourself, often into a person in whom you truly had no interest. So you had a choice: you could continue a masquerade, or you could give up on it.

People froze you in place, Rebecca sometimes thought, trudging through the woods. More important, you froze yourself, often into a person in whom you truly had no interest.

It was wonderful what a change had come over Joe. John laughed, and said he had grown an inch taller in that week, and I believe he had. He was just as kind and gentle as before, but there was more purpose and determination in all that he did—as if he had jumped at once from a boy into a man.

Agnes Grey by ANNE BRONTË

Sometimes I believe that God wants to try me, both now and later on; I must become good through my own efforts, without examples and without good advice.

And finally I twist my heart round again, so that the bad is on the outside and the good is on the inside, and keep on trying to find a way of becoming what I would so like to be, and could be, if there weren't any other people living in the world.

I've learned one thing: you can only really get to know a person after a row. Only then can you judge their true character!

I get cross, then sad, and finally end up turning my heart inside out, and keep trying to find a way to become what I'd like to be and what I could be if....if only there were no other people in the world.

I had an occasional flash of understanding, but then got selfishly wrapped up again in my own problems and pleasures.