Quotes about Personal Growth

Most of us have more potential than we will ever develop. What holds us back is often a lack of courage. A loving spouse can supply that all-important catalyst.

That's the marvelous thing about being human. We can change our future. We need not be enslaved by experiences of the past. We can learn to love even when we have not received love.

It is a love that unites reason and emotion. It involves an act of the will and requires discipline, and it recognizes the need for personal growth. Our

When your spouse's emotional love tank is full and he feels secure in your love, the whole world looks bright and your spouse will move out to reach his highest potential in life. But when the love tank is empty and he feels used but not loved, the whole world looks dark and he will likely never reach his potential for good in the world. In

The good news is that Dead Seas can learn to talk and Babbling Brooks can learn to listen. We are influenced by our personality but not controlled by it.

We need the richness of many good counselors all through our lives and an attitude that nurtures them. That way, we may find the clarity and resilience we need when things go awry.

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We can recognize the in-love experience for what it was--a temporary emotional high--and now pursue 'real love' with our spouse. That kind of love is emotional in nature but not obsessional. It is a love that unites reason and emotion. It involves an act of the will and requires discipline, and it recognizes the need for personal growth. Our most basic emotional need is not to fall in love but to be genuinely loved by another, to know a love that grows out of reason and choice, not instinct.

That's the marvelous thing about being human. We can change our future. We need not be enslaved by experiences of the past.

In each of life's events, we have emotions, thoughts, desires, and eventually actions. The expression of that process is called self-revelation.

That kind of love is emotional in nature but not obsessional. It is a love that unites reason and emotion. It involves an act of the will and requires discipline, and it recognizes the need for personal growth. Our most basic emotional need is not to fall in love but to be genuinely loved by another, to know a love that grows out of reason and choice, not instinct. I need to be loved by someone who chooses to love me, who sees in me something worth loving.

For most of us, anger control will be something we must learn as adults, and that means unlearning old habits.

Gary L. McIntosh

Because every day in my journal I write down the best thing that's happened to me. And today it's you. When When Johanna said that, I felt light, warm in that spot just above my stomach where it usually feels clenched and tight.

You save the world by concentrating on your own forgiveness lessons.

After thirty-nine years of being alive, I had forgiven my own parents for not knowing how to care for a child, but that was the depth of my forgiveness.

The fact that my sexual awakening peripherally involves Steve Guttenberg I have gradually accepted.

Each of us has an inner thermostat setting that determines how much love, success, and creativity we allow ourselves to enjoy. When we exceed our inner thermostat setting, we will often do something to sabotage ourselves, causing us to drop back into the old, familiar zone where we feel secure. Unfortunately

You cannot grow without growing inside.

The instruments you have are the right instruments for you, because you've been shaped by them. That's another law.

You have bettered yourself, he said, making such a low bow that the tassel of his cap swept the carpet. You may recall I invariably affirmed you would. Honesty, integrity, and intelligence cannot be kept down. We both know that nothing is easier to keep down, I said. By my old guild, they were kept down every day.

Every man fights backward to kill others. Yet his victory comes not in the killing others, but in the killing of certain parts of himself.

If you can't get rid of the skeleton in your closet, you'd best take it out and teach it to dance.

La vida no consiste en buscarse a sí mismo, sino en crearse a sí mismo