Quotes about Personal Growth

The point is, your definition of rising is always going to be personal, individual to you. But one of the biggest impediments to rising is also personal and individual: being blind to the behaviors and habits that keep you stuck.

So if you identify as a ruminant, please write a new script for yourself. And repeat firmly after us: rumination is for cows!

When you're in the zone, you're more likely to have an epiphany or reach a solution. As you become less self-conscious, you're more confident, which feels emotionally gratifying.

A man's pride needs careful handling.

And believe me, darling, there's no man more faithful than a reformed playboy. They make far better husbands than men who haven't had time to sow their wild oats before they marry, so go off the rails at about forty-five because they suddenly realise that they've missed out on life and if they don't hurry up it's going to be too late.

Obaveštavajte me sigurno o svom radu, zasad su vaše slike isuviše zbrkane i nedostaje im pe?at li?nosti. Radite! Radite! Treba sa?ekati razvoj vaših nesumnjivih kvaliteta. Nadam se da ?u jednog dana mo? da se vama pozabavim" –pismo Pjera Leba, Pariz,1926

I still had to invent and write a great philosophic work, which I had begun a year before, and which was called, "The Tower of Babel." I had already written five hundred pages of it, and I was still only on the Prologue! At this period my sexual anxiety disappeared almost completely, and the philosophic theories of my book took up all the room in my psychic activity.

When we read stories of heroes, we identify with them. We take the journey with them. We see how the obstacles almost overcome them. We see how they grow as human beings or gain qualities or show great qualities of strength and courage and with them, we grow in some small way.

because it was from that experience that I learned a lesson which has stuck with me all through the years: you can learn from everybody. I didn't just learn from reading every retail publication I could get my hands on, I probably learned the most from studying what John Dunham was doing across the street.

We use certain authors at certain times of our lives, and we may never go back to them again.

A man who has to forge his own tools, his own language, is a man who is going somewhere.

No way in, go in, measure.

Every one should keep a mental wastepaper basket and the older he grows the more things he will consign to it - torn up to irrecoverable tatters.

Criticism is a study by which men grow important and formidable at very small expense

23rd. This my birthday, 28 years.

I've thought, maybe: It's not the season that changes. It's us. The whole city shifts, turns, rearranges itself. All the time. And rearranges us…

I realized with alarm that I hadn't learned how to save anyone at all, not Dr. Sanders or Lazarus or Jimmy or Saul or Anna O., and that what I was thrilled about was learning how to save myself.

We are not called "human stagnates." We are called human beings, persons in process, persons involved in the act and art of actually shaping or reshaping ourselves, or working to understand what Frank Barron calls the "patterns within diversity.

I nodded yes. Another deceit. I have become a person I do not care for.

Just as we don't move without first sorting through what we've gathered through the years, throwing away what is broken and can't be fixed, and what no longer fits, so too, should we do the same with what we've mentally gathered, before we move on. So let us do our sorting, throwing away regrets and old hurts, and taking for our journey only the treasures worth keeping: The lessons, the love, the best of what we've lived.

But when your life is broken, you'll let that misery roll by for years, and ignore the side of you that isn't finished.

Finding peace and happiness is a journey you need to take, there is no quick fix

A person who aspires to goodness will come to useful realizations.

I think life is sort of like a competition, whether it's in sports, or it's achieving in school, or it's achieving good relationships with people. And competition is a little bit of what it's all about.