Quotes about Personal Growth

I have always wanted a solo career, deep in the darkest pit of myself, but I didn't dare admit it to myself even. It took me a long time to confront my fears.

. . . as people serve, they grow in capacity. The time and effort is not a sacrifice because there is returned more than is given.

I've never been in parliament as a National, I gave up smoking about the same time [and] I've rid myself of two cancers.

Every time I've built character, I've regretted it.

There was no active, conscious decision-making point, just a gradual realization over time that I'm very happy minus children and marriage.

It's time for us all to step up. We've been extremely successful, but to be honest it's a reality check for everybody.

Being at college, I think that's the time when you really start searching for things outside yourself.

Lack of genius never held anyone back. Only time wasted on resentment and daydreaming can do that.

I've been making music for a long time, since I was very young, but at the same time, I'm still exploring what works for me. I feel like I'm just starting out.

Age is a limit we impose upon ourselves. You know, each time you Westerners celebrate your birthday you build another fence around your minds.

I think in terms of chapters. Every time I finish a movie, it's a chapter. When one of my kids graduates from school, that's a chapter.

But Mother, I don't want to go. It's just that...I have to. I can't spend the rest of my life hiding in the attic. [...] I don't want to be a burden[...]I want to do something with my life. Figure out ways to help other third kids. Make—make a difference in the world.

Dad," he began, "do you ever think —" "Nope," Eisenhower said quickly. "I try to do that as little as possible. Gets in the way of muscle development.

every man had to walk through a dark, starless night and, when he faced the morning, he'd be better for it.

How would hating benefit me? The elves did what they had to do, and so did I. I learned how to sail their ships. I learned to speak their language fluently. No, as I've discovered, hate generally costs a man more than he can afford.

And it was at about this time that I began to feel myself divine.

Nuestro gran error está en tratar de obtener de cada uno en particular las virtudes que no posee, descuidando cultivar aquellas que posee.

No perder nunca de vista el diagrama de una vida humana, que no se compone, por más bien que se diga, de una horizontal y de dos perpendiculares, sino más bien de tres líneas sinuosas, perdidas hacia el infinito, constantemente próximas y divergentes: lo que un hombre ha creído ser, lo que ha querido ser, y lo que fue.

Il mio insegnante (un uomo assai mediocre, ma pieno di buona volontà) consigliava mia madre di mandarmi all'estero a perfezionare la mia educazione musicale. Sapevo che vi avrei trovato difficile l'esistenza; ciononostante desideravo partire. Abbiamo tanti legami con luoghi dove abbiamo vissuto che ci sembra più facile, lasciandoli, lasciare noi stessi.

You only grow up by living through the shit that life throws at you

The thing about personal growth, I've discovered, is that you rarely get any choice in it. It only ever happens as a side-effect of some loss or trauma.

The cure for loneliness is solitude.

Until we have met the monsters in ourselves, we keep trying to slay them in the outer world. And we find that we cannot. For all darkness in the world stems from darkness in the heart. And it is there that we must do our work.

growth can be messy.