Quotes about Personal Growth

Was ich möchte, ist, jede Menge Erfahrungen zu sammeln. Weißt du, zu Hause geht das nicht mehr. Ich meine, so gut wie alles, was ich neu lerne, steht in einem Buch, was schon interessant ist, aber nicht dasselbe, denn wenn mir diese Sachen passieren würden, würde ich sie vielleicht ganz anders erleben.

We are in search of our most authentic, vital, generous, and wise self.

Twice-Born people use the difficult changes in their outer lives to make the harder changes within.

it is the internal transformation that matters most. If there is one thing that has made a difference in my life, it is the courage to turn and face what wants to change within me.

I studied because I wanted to know, not because I wanted the world to know I knew.

In a whole world of strangers, she´s the only one alive who shares the first half of my life, of my memories, of myself. There are times I want to strangle her, a lot more time I want to scream at her to grow up, but I love her anyway.

The finger-biter's feelings for her ex-husband were a bonsai tree—they may have started in something real, but she'd tended them so closely and for so long they were now purely decorative.

Having to struggle gave me the chance to demonstrate strength of character.

Adulthood isn't black and white - it's a thousand shades of grey. Or taupe. It's not who you are, it's where you are.

I have found Ray's new girl. I have found the new me. I think about her all the way home, how she will cry and scream and plead just like I did. It makes me smile. Everyone on the bus who sees me smile looks away. They see that I am all wrong, that my smile means someone else's pain, but no one says anything.

Single women making their way to individual destinies-- who in the home circle understands them? If they try to share what they have found in their further reach, who wants it?

When you're a teacher, some students burst out at you immediately, most emerge gradually, and a few don't want you to see them at all.

Who knows why people are different? We are born with a certain nature, I think. And then the world takes its swings at us.

At times these days—rarely, very rarely, but at times—I feel like I've become, oh, just a tiny—tiny—bit better as a person, and it makes me sick that Henry didn't get any of that from me.

You can become bigger or bitter, this is what I think. And as a result of that pain, I became bigger.

And then I remembered that one time, when I was pregnant with Chrissy, I had looked down at my big stomach and put my hand over it and thought: Whoever you are, you do not belong to me. My job is to help you get into the world, but you do not belong to me. And remembering this now, I thought: Lucy, you were absolutely right.

Nothing in life is more exciting and rewarding than the sudden flash of insight that leaves you a changed person, not only changed, but for the better

The Florentines of the generation of 1402, men like Bruni and Alberti, had wanted to use the rediscovery of the ancient Greeks and Romans to change the world. Marsilio Ficino wanted to use it to change the self.

Once, as a teenager, I had believed that people could change themselves. Finally I realized that all one could ever hope was understanding one's filthy self better.

The work was heavy, but Vatanen liked that. He knew he was getting stronger, and he wasn't weighed down by the thought of having to do this work till the end of his life.

Todo lo vivido aprovecha, de una u otra forma. Excepto para los fanáticos y los imbéciles.

Experience brings best

Los tiempos en que conseguías controlarme pertenecen ya al pasado. Ahora que comprendo que eres la causa de todos mis problemas, te eliminaré en cuanto aparezcas.

Your journey has molded you for your greater good, and it was exactly what it needed to be. Don't think you've lost time. There is no short-cutting to life. It took each and every situation you have encountered to bring you to the now. And now is right on time.