Quotes about Personal Growth

Take full responsibility for your life, move forward in the direction of your dreams

My career has kind of taken on a life of its own.

Because that day with Willem, I may have pretended to be someone named Lulu, but I had never been more honest in my life. Maybe that's the thing with liberation. It comes at a price.

... one's own faults are always a heavy chain to drag through life and one can't help groaning under the weight now and then.

I'm not known as a singer, but in life I like to do things that are a bit beyond my reach to keep myself from slipping.

Learning to make films is very easy. Learning what to make films about is very hard. What you've really got to do is focus on learning as much about life, and about various aspects of it first.

I want to grow. I don't want to get stuck doing the same thing over and over and think I'm the best at it.

Well, with each character that I play in my life as an actor, I try to figure out how to find the challenge.

Each step in life has been another step in an area that was a challenge, that is highly satisfying and that gives you a great sense of pride afterwards.

For me, a breakup changed my entire life. I was a mess. I really got rocked, and I ended up turning it into a positive thing.

People feel happier when they feel like they're progressing. When they feel like something in their life is growing or getting better.

Sometimes life is so crazy, you have to go through something to be able to find out what you're supposed to talk about next, and I think that's what happened to me.

Each morning when you wake, and everyday for the rest of your life... Expect the best of yourself, and accept the rest from yourself.

The nature of life is to face us with ourselves, until we are able to handle the problems that knocked us into the dirt yesterday.

I think at the age I'm at, it's really hard for a film career, and I'm at a point in my life where I thought it would be a good idea to be a part of a good show and to be able to finish school.

There's only one story, the story of your life.

I believe that it is in my power to elevate myself this very hour above the common level of my life.

I have had a number of less-than-enviable moments in my life when dealing with other people. I won't attempt to blunt that by saying I am not the only one.

The meaning of life cannot be told; it has to happen to a person ... To speak as though it were an objective knowledge, like the date of the war of 1812, misses the point altogether.

If I had not passed through trial - through passion, one could say - through these years so painful and so rich, I don't believe I could take on my life and my career as I do today.

The show is 'Fix My Life!' Get it? Life. I do not fix people.

I hope that my story, I hope that my life is... an encouragement for people, especially in Brooklyn. I feel humbled and blessed.

I just never felt so fantastically rocky in my entire life.

In life we often look to others for simple, but difficult answers, despite the fact that we have those answers ourselves.