Quotes about Personal Growth

I used to joke about the fact that I crammed eighty years of guilt into the first twenty years of my life. It

I keep writing and rewriting, drawing and redrawing, and rethinking and revising and reediting. It became my grieving ceremony.

I made a list of my favorite books: 1. The Grapes of Wrath 2. Catcher in the Rye 3. Fat Kid Rules the World 4. Tangerine 5. Feed 6. Catalyst 7. Invisible Man 8. Fools Crow 9. Jar of Fools

Great minds discuss ideas. Average minds discuss events. Small minds discuss other people. Life's too short to worry about what other people do or don't do. Tend your own backyard, not theirs, because yours is the one you have to live in.

Mistakes don't have to define us. They're how we learn and grow. They show us who and what we don't want to be. It's why they're mistakes.

The hardest part of living is making peace with your past. Most of all, it's making peace with yourself.

Be glad you have a mother who loves you. He was glad of that. A lot, since she was basically the only person on earth who did. But now that he was a full head taller than her, it was weird when she tried to cuddle him like he was a baby. He could be almost seven feet tall like Acheron, and she'd probably still try to pull him into her lap.

We all make mistakes, Steele. It's what we do afterward that defines us more than the actual incident that led to the mistake. (Joe)

Life is about coming to terms with the mistakes made. Learning to live with them even when they cut soul deep.

Life is messy, Ren. It's not easy and it's definitely not for the timid. Everyone has a past.

anyway. People will come and go from your life, but you will walk hand in hand with yourself forever. Whatever you do, don't choose to be something you hate. I walked that path for far too long, and it's an ugly place to live. I want you to be better, because I know for a fact that you are better than I ever

I think I would have had less tumult in my life if I hadn't grown up in my particular house.

Tell your kids they are perfect the way they are, but they shouldn't stay where they are forever because growing, testing the limits, and evolving make life better and more fulfilling.

Your waking adult life is going to be spent in what you do professionally, so you'd better like the journey and not just aim for the destination.

How you manage yourself as you deal with stuff in your life largely determines the quality of your life.

I was at a New Year's Eve party, and someone asked me how was my year, and I said, 'I honestly think 2011 was the best year of my entire life,' and I actually meant it.

We're allowed to have had a private life before politics in which we make mistakes and do things we should not.

The true purpose of life is the perfection of humanity through individual effort, under the guidance of God's inspiration.

I will not die an unlived life.

When my oldest boy was about 14, I started to talk to him about some of the mistakes I made in life, just to put a few dents in that shiny armor.

I'm beginning to think I've led a much too sheltered life.

Remember the importance of small actions. They're the building blocks in the architecture of your life, the quiet victories you win for yourself each day.

I am a person who grew up with two wonderful parents and a wonderful family and a person who has done well in life.

The girl I am now, this girl-she survived. I just needed a little help getting here.