Quotes about Personal Growth

On a given day, a given circumstance, you think you have a limit. And you then go for this limit and you touch this limit, and you think, 'Okay, this is the limit'. And so you touch this limit, something happens and you suddenly can go a little bit further. With your mind power, your determination, your instinct, and the experience as well, you can fly very high.

It takes no deep insight to see that the source of both our well-being and our maladies lies within our own hearts and minds. To change our experience of life we must inevitably change our hearts and minds, or rather our heart/minds.

There were moments bristling with deadness, when she looked out at her life and went 'what?' Or worse, feeling interrupted and tires, 'wha-?' It had taken on the shape of a terrible mistake. She hadn't been given the proper tools to make a real life with, she decided, that was it.

She would try then not to think too strenuously about her whole life. She would try to live one day at a time, like an alcoholic – drink, don't drink, drink. Perhaps she should take drugs.

Once you remove any hint of judgment, changing your habits becomes an uplifting journey of self-discovery.

So yes, you can try what worked for your friend, but don't beat yourself up if your friend's answer doesn't change you in the same way.

Write your aspiration inside the cloudlike shape shown in the graphic. Then start filling in the boxes with specific behaviors.

Growth and decay is always in one's own hands. [It is an obvious statement. Nobody can ensure any body's growth if that person is destroying oneself. And if one is determined to grow nobody can cause that person's destruction.]

Do not think of yourself as a small, compressed, suffering thing. Think of yourself as graceful and expanding, no matter how unlikely it may seem at the time.

Many yoga teachers ask you to do the asanas with ease and comfort and without any stress or true exertion. this ultimately leaves the practitioner living within the limits of his or her mind, with the inevitable fear, attachment, and pettiness.

Everyone is unique. Compare not yourself with anyone else lest you spoil God's curriculum.

Q: How many teachers did you have? A: Myself.

The first goal of trauma recovery should and must be to improve your quality of life on a daily basis.

When you start with Super 8, you are everything. You're the DP, the sound man, the effects guy. And what I started understanding, by working for other people, is that the best type of director is someone who rose through the ranks.

I don't have to put out another rap record. I can do it at my casual pace.

I'm definitely tired of playing 'Acid Rap.' I'm definitely tired of playing 'Juice.'

In order to get new things to rap about, you've gotta live.

'Law 3' shows my growth as a rapper. I don't really like maintaining, so on every project, I'm going to show you my growth.

I guess I did go through my phase where I wanted to be a rapper. I made music, but I was never really good at it.

Rapping was a joke, but the music helped me break out of my shell.

I was just rapping as a pastime and I became good at it. So much so that by the time my Def Jam contract was in front of me, I didn't have a rap name.

I very rarely go back to do shows again. I'm done once I've learned the lessons I need to learn.

Breaking up is a natural evolution when you try to figure out what you want in life. If you're with an individual who isn't moving in the same direction and at the same rate that you are, it ain't going to work.

Once I got my card, I had a goal to make the top 64 and to try and keep my Tour card for the following year and to progress nicely. But to progress at the rate I have, and to feel as comfortable as I am starting to feel - I have to pinch myself.