Quotes about Personal Growth

In the holy relationship, it's understood that we all have unhealed places, and that healing is the purpose of our being with another person.

Before the Prince can save the damsel in distress, he has to slay the dragons that surround her castle. So do we all. Those dragons are our demons, our wounds, our egos, our brilliant ways of denying love to ourselves and others. The ego's patterns have to be rooted out, detoxed from our system, before the pure love within us can have a chance to come forth.

The Goddess doesn't enter us from outside; she emerges from deep within. She is not held back by what happened in the past. She is conceived in consciousness, born in love, and nurtured by higher thinking. She is integrity and value, created and sustained by the hard work of personal growth and the discipline of a life lived actively in hope.

The pain you are going through is not what will determine your future; your future will be determined by who you are as you go through your pain.

By striving to be the best we can be, we create the internal blueprint by which we do the best we can do. On a soul level, we want to work, we want to create, we want to be productive and serve others and share our gifts with the world.

Sometimes, in fact, it was the people who loved us the most who felt it was their responsibility to train us to struggle.

Empezamos a sentirnos más a gusto con nosotros mismos, menos abrumados por la angustia crónica que marca la época en la que vivimos.

El único fracaso verdadero es no ser capaces de crecer como resultado de nuestras experiencias.

You are about to embark upon a specific journey, and as with everything else in your life, you have two choices: you can play it shallow or you can play it deep.

La única forma de alcanzar el poder en un mundo que avanza demasiado rápido es aprender a tener calma.

past. She is conceived in consciousness, born in love, and nurtured by higher thinking. She is integrity and value, created and sustained by the hard work of personal growth and the discipline of a life lived actively in hope. Build community. Nurture those less fortunate. Become yourself. Seek God. No less potent steps than these will be deep enough to move you forward.

Someone with whom we have a lifetime's worth of lessons to learn is someone whose presence in our lives forces us to grow.

los sentimientos de fracaso se presentan en todas nuestras vidas y que lo que importa es en quién nos convirtamos como resultado.

Take a good look at your life right now. If you don't like something about it, close your eyes and imagine the life you want. Now allow yourself to focus your inner eye on the person you would have to be in order to create your preferred life.

the miraculous power of love to create a context in which people naturally blossom into their highest potential.  Neither nagging, trying to get people to change, criticizing or fixing can do that.

even if I could go back in time to her as me, the age I am now she would never come into my arms without believing that I wanted something.

Some might have said that he was color-struck, but color had nothing to do with it, it was all about where he had come from and where he wanted to go—it had been all about the climb.

I needed to stop being victimized by my own weaknesses and insecurities about other people

It's more important that you grow up to be a man," he said, "than to be a genius.

What's past is past," Gronevelt said. "Never go back. Not for excuses. Not for justification, not for happiness. You are what you are, the world is what it is."  

Living by principles is not living your own life. It is easier to try to be better than you are than to be who you are.

The bad things that happen to you don't have to mean anything at all.

I pretended to be somebody I wanted to be until I became that person. Or he became me.' In the end, a man turns into what he thinks he is, however large or small.

even though adults were tall, what we knew about anything, including ourselves, was small.