Quotes about Personal Growth

It was himself that he was attempting to define as he worked on his study. It was himself that he was slowing shaping, it was himself that he was putting into a kind of order, it was himself that he was making possible.

A man may live like a fool for a year, and become wise in a day.

A quarantatré anni compiuti, William Stoner apprese ciò che altri, ben più giovani di lui, avevano imparato prima: che la persona che amiamo da subito non è quella che amiamo per davvero e che l'amore non è una fine ma un processo attraverso il quale una persona tenta di conoscerne un'altra.

He conceived himself changed in that future, but he saw the future itself as the instrument of change rather than its object.

It was as if marriage had been a long, complicated meal, and now there was this lovely dessert.

People open bookstores because they want their souls back. (from "Two Women" published in Do Me: Tales of Sex & Love from Tin House)

I think I'm finally growing up - and about time.

Elizabeth Yates

It was the hardest time of my life, but the best part of my journey.

After years of breaking Rules and settling for random hookups, she finally meets a cute guy and after one kiss she has an aha! moment. She realizes that she does want a healthy loving relationship, not just a lot of texting and sex.

All change is not growth, as all movement is not forward.

I love sport, I grew up playing sports, that's all I did, and it is so invigorating now that I'm supposedly adult to learn something completely new, from the bottom up.

If you don't know who you are, how is anybody else supposed to get to know you?

You get to a certain age and you can't judge yourself on your dad or your parents.

The goal of any discipline is freedom. If the result is not greater freedom, something is wrong. (Chapter 1)

If you decide you don't have to get A's, you can learn an enormous amount in college.

Anyone who challenges himself/herself often is more likely to get over any difficulty. So, do challenge yourself as often as you can.

Blaming yourself or others for what went wrong is a waste of time and energy. So, if you think you have done anything or anyone wrong. Just go ahead and fix it up or correct it or rather correct yourself in order not to repeat it again. -Emeasoba George

Life's challenges are not meant to break you, but to make you. -Emeasoba George

Life's challenges are not meant to demoralize you. Rather, they are meant to toughen you in order for you to become stronger and eventually to discover who you are meant to be (truly). ~Emeasoba George

Look forward expectantly to who you can become in the future and to what you can still achieve subsequently. But, never look backward regretfully to who you used to be and to what you have already achieved. For, the future ahead of you is brighter and very promising. -Emeasoba George

Never get too relaxed with who you are currently or with what you have achieved so far. Because, you may miss to become who you aspire to be or fail to achieve what you can still achieve. ~Emeasoba George

Some challenges of life are predestined and some obstacles of your past are meant to become the gateways and turning points that will take you to the next level of your life. Moreover, you are the deciding factor of your life. In other words, your destiny is in your hands. So come on, choose to be positive each day. Because, positivity attracts opportunity and opportunity per se stimulates creativity eventually. -Emeasoba George

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