Quotes about Personal Growth

Being yourself is not remaining where you are, or being satisfied with what you are. It is the point of departure. Sydney J. Harris

Do not expect the mind of your son is to resemble yours, as your figure is reflected by the image in the glass; he was formed, like you, to use his own judgment, and he claims the high privilege of his nature.

I just don't want to be hampered by my own limitations.

Now what's to be found by racing around You carry your pain wherever you go Full of blues, and trying to lose You ain't gonna learn what you don't wanna know

reduce mental interferences that inhibit the full expression of human potential

I'm not sure which is worse--being born to it or learning it.

I'm still not ready to believe time heals wounds, but I think maybe something else does. We heal wounds. Not time. Us.

O)ur lives are the sum of our mistakes as well as our triumphs...

Parents get all focused on themselves, and they see their little babies start walkin' and talkin', and since they kinda look like them and sound like the, they start thinking of those little babies as themselves....And then something funny happens. Those babies grow up to be kids and teenages and grown-ups in their own right....so everything the kids do, everything, is a betrayal.

I refuse to be molded into some stereotypical ballplayer that has no interests, really, no life, no depth, no intelligence.

It's not about love. Of course I love the little shit. But he knows too much about me that no one else on the planet knows, and when he's around I have no choice but to think about everything I hate about myself and my past. He's a gangrenous leg attached to my psyche, and I need to hack him off before he infects my whole fucking soul.

Citizens are not born, but made.

Real intimacy is a place where there are no mistakes, at least not in the sense you feel. You don't just blow everything with one wrong move.

Sometimes you're ahead, sometimes you're behind, the race is long, and in the end, it's only with yourself.

Don't waste your time on jealousy; Sometimes you're ahead, Sometimes You're behind. The race is long, and in the end, it's only with yourself.

When you find yourself thinking about someone or something in the same old negative way, just stop yourself. Think. Check. Change. Refresh. Job done. Smile. Move on. Do this enough times and you will change. For the better; for the stronger.

I got a little house in East L.A. and did the gardening. I was doing some acting here and there, doing my own thing... getting back to reality.

I used to be one of those guys with a lot of angst, you know? I just don't anymore. I'm not angst-ridden anymore. I've faced reality of what I am and what I have to do in life.

I definitely watch reality shows where I'm not learning something better in the end.

After I was on reality TV, after that whole phase of my life was over, I really didn't want to do anything reality TV-related ever again.

I would've never tried acting. I was at this point in my life where I was like, 'I have this following; what am I gonna do?' I could've done reality TV, but I didn't see any longevity in that. And my manager was like, 'Have you ever acted before?' And I was like, 'No... but I'll try it.' And so I tried it, and I liked it.

I think people don't realize how little of being an artist is making art.

If you're not making use of even the most routine assignment to learn something, realize that many of your colleagues and coworkers are.

There are certainly actors who I felt rivalries with, but then, as time goes on, you realize that you have to keep your eyes on your own paper because everybody's doing their own work.