Quotes about Personal Growth

I choose to see my life moving in different directions, all of them equally good. Some things are even better now than the way they were in my youth.

Well, I've had to deal with everything in my life... leavin' the family, learnin' what not and what to do.

I'm so familiar with what Malcolm X wrote at certain stages of his own life and development.

I was a very driven person, wanting to help and to do good, hopefully to write and teach in a meaningful way - wanting to make change. And I discovered humbly that life was changing me.

The first half of my life I went to school, the second half of my life I got an education.

I'm trying not to let the anger and the violence that erupt take over my life. I guess it comes with the growing process, I don't know. A little mellowing.

I can't speak for others, but I find the fundamental idea that a life worth living is one during which one strives every day to become a better person to be compelling.

I'm making plans to go away for a month to focus on my sobriety and to continue my life in recovery. Please enjoy making fun of me on the world wide web.

She had always thought applying to college would be exciting. Living away from home, meeting so many new people, Learning new things, making a few poor life desicisons.

Any area you slough off in your life will reflect in your meditation. Be happy when you could be depressed. Push jealous, fear, and anger out of your mind. Don't feel sorry for yourself.

No matter how many times you have failed you must keep going forward. Only when you have become humble will you begin to grasp the meaning of life.

Let us think of education as the means of developing our greatest abilities, because in each of us there is a private hope and dream which, fulfilled, can be translated into benefit for everyone and greater strength for our nation.

the world was so big, so full of things I could master.

I see your capacity for addition has improved

Anyone can make a mistake. It's how they learn from it and recover from it that shows their true worth.

As my father stretches to understand my journey I realize that maybe you can't change the world by your actions alone, but you can change yourself. And when you do, the world around you may change by attempting to understand you, as we all try to understand each other.

When I started for the head of navigation a friend asked me what I expected to find on the trip. "Some more of myself," I answered. And, after all, that is the Great Discovery.

ambition or contentment? This simple question led me back to a more balanced view of life and put me in touch with the Me I used to know...

and not out of fear or loneliness, but only to find myself again... for we have come too far my Life, to turn back now...

at some point we must achieve our identity -we can't be always in adolescence seeking who we are...

before you, I was a doubled-up fist - now I can hold soft things, fragile as butterfly wings...

if you want your own distinctive voice, you first have to become someone...

My life is a reading list.

I keep coming back to certain books, and you—to try to find myself again