Quotes about Personal Growth

Life is a journey. It's up to you where you go.

Stop comparing yourself to others. You have your own race to run. Finish well.<3

think that grown-ups create children. The reality is that children create grown-ups. They become their own person, and so do you. Children give so much more than they take.

Guess what often brings about anxiety. The voices in your own head, also known as the inner critic or the critical inner voice.

life is not about what we see, it is about the way it goes.

Much of what torments us is often just flickering images, in particular the unfavourable assessments about life (and ourselves) that we make. As we watch that self-critical movie in our minds, we reproach ourselves over and over. Self-acceptance is about quitting this shabby movie theater and stepping outside into the sun.

For several decades, we have been slaving for a better reputation with ourselves—better looks, more achievement, keeping fit, optimal work-life balance, not to mention changing the world—but is all this really making us happier?

Aging changes your relationship with history.

It is better to be a has-been than a never-was

People underestimate their capacity for change. There is never a right time to do a difficult thing.

A person can grow only as much as his horizon allows.

Write about something you know. Try to leave your readers better off than they were before.

Oh yeah, I heard you got born again.' she said. 'Which you needed since they fucked up the first time.

Man, unlike anything organic or inorganic in the universe, grows beyond his work, walks up the stairs of his concepts, emerges ahead of his accomplishments.

Happiness comes when we test our skills towards some meaningful purpose.

The duty of man is the same in respect to his own nature as in respect to the nature of all other things, namely not to follow it but to amend it.

In proportion to the development of his individuality, each person becomes more valuable to himself, and is therefore capable of being more valuable to others.

Arthur Gremlin was doing a lot of smiling these days. He had seemed pretty tense when he first joined the firm, but the more time he spent with me, and the more he saw me in action, the more he relaxed. Finally after watching me spend three entire days trying to get a carton of milk open, he wiped the milk off his face and relaxed completely for the first time. It's like something that had been nagging at him finally went away.

People have to be allowed to make their own mistakes and to try again, or they will never master themselves, although they may well seem to be competent when they have in fact only memorized or imitated someone else's performance.

Whatever an education is, it should make you a unique individual, not a conformist; it should furnish you with an original spirit with which to tackle the big challenges; it should allow you to find values which will be your roadmap through life; it should make you spiritually rich, a person who loves whatever you are doing, wherever you are, whomever you are with; it should teach you what is important, how to live and how to die.

I have barred myself from thinking I'm improving because thus far I have only been fooling myself. Nevertheless, I think I'm improving.

Step down, pilgrim. Take a look

You have to be a man before you can be a gentleman.

Všichni rádi v??íme tomu, že problém spo?ívá v druhých lidech. Dává nám to pocit, že jednáme správn? a že my sami nemusíme nic m?nit.