Quotes about Personal Growth

One learns least from people one lives with.

Selfing is a very necessary precursor to unselfing. So now that you have successfully selfed and unselfed, what's next? "Collective effervescence!

J'accepte la grande aventure d'être moi

Every individual concerned to justify his existence feels that his existence involves an undefined need to transcend himself, to engage in freely chosen projects. pg. xxxiii

Suddenly I was struck motionless: I was living through the first chapter of a novel in which I was the heroine; she was still almost a child, but we, too, were growing up.

Avevo torto di pretendere che la vita si conformasse a un ideale stabilito in anticipo; stava a me mostrami all'altezza di ciò ch'essa mi portava.

The goal toward which I surpass myself must appear to me as a point of departure toward a new act of surpassing.

To want to prohibit a man from error is to forbid him to fulfill his own existence, it is to deprive him of life.

In a matter of weeks, he had learned that without suffering and doubt, there can be no whole human being.

Wherever we are and whatever we are doing, it is possible to learn something that can enrich our lives and the lives of others... No one's education is ever complete.

If we think of our life as a journey [...] we don't want to move into our future lugging along the heavy baggage of our past. One way to lighten the load is to work on forgiveness and acceptance.

just how it had been painfully answered. By not being married, I was now free to focus on healing me. That was my gift in all of this. I was determined to accept it.

Un petit échantillon

A key to whether friendship is good is: Who am I being in this connection? Do I like me? (Never mind do I like you!) Am I liking how I'm showing up? Does this feel good to me?

Challenge yourself. Try to shed an outgrown identity.

The ego often doesn't know the difference between different and dangerous, so please remember this and know you will always be safe, even if you briefly feel a little uncomfortable at times. We always feel awkward when learning new things, so relax.

The worst thing a girl can do is trail after a boy when a love affair is dead.

A divorce is like a controlled explosion. Everyone on the outside is OK.

You don't just get over it. And it doesn't make any difference if you're supposedly a grown-up. It never goes away.

Sweetheart, I know you think it'll be a cathartic experience and you'll say your piece and everyone will come away the wiser,' says Dad. 'But in real life that doesn't happen. I've confronted enough assholes in my time. They never realize they're assholes. Not once. Whatever you say.

Every promotion requires you to do less of the thing you originally wanted to do

But nothing changes if nothing changes. I saw that slogan on a T-shirt the other day, and it really resonated. I've changed. My horizons have shifted, And if I want to keep growing and changing, I need to challenge myself.

Shopping has really changed for me over the years. Or maybe I've changed. The days when I was a single girl, living in Fulham with Suze and going round the shops every day, seem ages ago now. Yes, I used to spend too much. I'll freely admit it. I've made mistakes. Like Frank Sinatra, I did it my way. (Except "my way" involved stuffing Visa bills under the bed, which I bet Frank never did.)

Like father like daughter, passionate, wild . . . she hasn't learned to bend before adversity.