Quotes about Personal Growth

I move on stage differently. The more you act, anyway, the more you live, your perception of life becomes more and more accurate.

What I need to do is to just deepen my well. I'm just experiencing life now.

Make the man within your living ideal.

[The main character] is in a forever-growing process. I feel the movie [everybody Loves Somebody] did that very well and not finishing off as "a woman's life ends when she finds the right guy".

Acting is a life experience. I'm always learning things when I'm making a movie. So the fame part of it is fine when you consider what you get out of this job.

You don't have to fight dragons to write books. You just have to live deeply the life you've been given.

I'd like to get something small and self-generated in before Black Rock has whatever life that it has.

I didn't have a calling to be a therapist. I really went to Pacifica for a very specific kind of life experience, to really kind of find my path in a deeper way.

I hope that you, too, will choose to have a journey instead of just a life. Actually, I hope it's a full on expedition.

Deep down you know you can be remarkable. You shouldn't settle for anything less than your best self, reaching ever closer to your potential -- whether as a leader or in any other part of your life.

Your understanding of a place changes the longer you stay; you discover more, and your own life gets woven into the fabric of the community.

All girls hit that phase where they like the bad boy. I grew out of that really young and I have a wonderful guy in my life who's not a bad boy at all. I like the satiric, consistent nice guy.

The reflective person opens up her inner world and embarks on the greatest adventure that life has to offer – getting to know and understand oneself.

There was a possibility I could have been out of the NBA. It's taught me something that was a little deeper than basketball. I'm talking about life decisions.

But... watching Steven Barnes taught me to treat my life like an art form.

Failure can only open more doors for you as a person and as growth and life.

You'll be a good parent when you're ready to no longer be selfish. Until I was about 35, it was all about me. I look back and I'm astonished at how I lived my life - it was totally self-involved.

Hopefully people will grow with me, because I'm definitely not going to be stuck in one place all my life.

I study the bible regularly, meet with older wiser mentors weekly, and keep a group of guys in my life who challenge me spiritually. That keeps me moving.

I don't want fame. I want to grow as an actor and a person while having my family and my life.

Remember you are a different person now than before, you are wiser & stronger for the trials that you have been through.

I was single for most of my life. The best thing that happened to me is my wife. I've got four kids. All of them go to Harvard. Much better than their dad. They're really bright kids.

I think my biggest focus for myself is learning how to continue to get through the trauma that my father has caused in my life.

I just learned that, even though in a past life, I was a model, too.