Quotes about Personal Growth

I have learned, on my journeys, that if I let a day go by without writing, I grow uneasy. Two days and I am in tremor. Three and I suspect lunacy. Four and I might as well be a hog, suffering the flux in a wallow.

The only things you're looking for... are in the world, but the only way the average chap will ever see ninety-nine percent of them is in a book. Don't ask for guarantees. And don't look to be saved in any one thing, person, machine, or library. Do your own bit of saving, and if you drown, at least die knowing you were headed for the shore.

I am not one thing. I am many things that America has been in my time. I had enough sense to keep moving, learning, growing. And I have never reviled or turned my back on the things I grew out of.

By the time I was forty my blunt instrument had been honed to a fine cutting point for me.

From now on I hope always to stay alert, to educate myself as best I can. But, lacking this, in future I will relaxedly turn back to my secret mind to see what it has observed when I thought I was sitting this one out. We never sit anything out. We are cups, constantly and quietly being filled. The trick is, knowing how to tip ourselves over and let the beautiful stuff out.

The function of the society is to cultivate the individual. It is not the function of the individual to support society.

No, I don't like work. I had rather laze about and think of all the fine things that can be done. I don't like work - no man does - but I like what is in the work - the chance to find yourself. Your own reality - for yourself, not for others - what no other man can ever know. They can only see the mere show, and never can tell what it really means.

The work is not dear to me, but I'm glad for that which is in the work - a chance to find yourself.

Reading is experience. A biography of any literary person ought to deal at length with what he read and when, for in some sense, we are what we read.

Our mind becomes more spacious, more open, and happier as we move past our avoidance and denial to see what is true.

But in their deeper meaning, these refuges always point back to our own actions and mind states. Although there may be many false starts and dead ends as we begin our journey, if our interest is sincere, we soon make a life-changing discovery: what we are seeking is within us.

You do not want to remain in a rut.

Working with mindfulness to overcome negative attitudes and believe in yourself is a journey, not a quick fix. It is simple, but not easy. In the process, it's important that you not reject or throw away qualities of your personality, even ones you think you don't like. Instead, find a way to use them to open up to a bigger world.

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Of my own experience at Princeton as a graduate, with honors, of the Class of 1927, I will not speak: except to say that it was instructive, and illuminating; and if I had to repeat it again, I would hang myself.

Why wouldn't we run to God. He's sooo good. God's not mad at anybody. He just wants to help us be the best that we can be.

I'm not where I need to be, but thank God i'm not where I used to be.

I may not be where I need to be but at least I am not where I used to be.

Great character is not developed through ease and convenience but through doing NOW what needs to be done no matter how difficult it

Leaders are not born; I believe they are made.

The pathway to change is to renew your mind.

At one time I was shame-based, but I did not know I was ashamed of myself. I was seeing the results of shame in my life, but was unsuccessfully trying to deal with the fruit of it rather than the root.

We're all different. You can't be somebody else, so you might as well get good at being who you are.

Muchas personas tienen talento pero no se molestan en formar buenos hábitos. No se disciplinan a sí mismas para hacer lo que saben que deberían hacer, sino en cambio esperan a ser movidas por alguna fuerza exterior.