Quotes about Personal Growth

Over time, I've been more recognized.

I always recognized that modeling would allow me to see and do a lot, so I looked for opportunities to learn and grow.

To me, the All-Star Game is just another step. I try to take all my experiences and put them together. To make the NBA was something, and then to be recognized as an All-Star - although I don't consider myself a star. I see myself as just trying to reach my potential as B. J.

Personally, I think there's a lot to recommend being friends with your ex, and I'm glad to admit that I'm living proof of its possibility.

I really recommend it, to build a new physical relationship with yourself, and just do it on your own terms, and your own time, it can just give you a different sense of self-worth, and then help with your mental health too.

The process of reclaiming the self is one of reconciliation with meaning.

I had already done Rainbow in Curved Air and had a big record on CBS. I was launched to have a long career and then I just dropped out and went to India.

My next baby will be my new record.

I think as I've gotten older I think it was a blessing that I didn't get a record deal until my late 20s because I think it allowed me to really grow up as Carly not as Carly Pearce.

I've never conformed to what my record label has said and, yes, that has meant that it's been a long journey for me.

In 2004, I went onstage for the first time. They put a mike in my hand and pushed me out the door into the crowd. I did the three songs I had recorded and got out. It was the worst day of my life.

When I broke 20, I said to myself, 'I will give concerts until I'm approximately 30.' And I made it a year and a half late, but, nevertheless, that's what I did. When I broke 30, I said, 'I think I should be recording until I'm about 50.'

I went to college to find myself. That's where I really realized I wanted to be a recording artist and started on the process of figuring out how to do that.

For the first 12 years of recording I would finish the album, then on the day it came out I'd never hear the songs again.

I got more used to my own voice, but still it's hard for me to listen to my own voice, or hear the recordings.

The two records are very different. I guess, on the second record, that's more where I was at. Its not that I'm more well-adjusted or anything, it's just that what I wanted to sing about maybe was more the way I wanted to feel.

The Odyssey is the story of someone who, in the course of diverse experiences, acquires a personality or affirms and recovers his personality.

Losing my parents was probably the hardest and deepest blow from which I've had to recover.

I enjoy played flawed men who are pushed to the limit, who make mistakes and then have to recover.

I'm like a recovering perfectionist. For me it's one day at a time.

Mistakes are a risk but recovering from them shows a lot of personality.

I always call myself a recovering narcissist. I lived my life thinking everything was about me.

I see myself as a recovering journalist.

With any recovery from morbidity there must go a certain healthy humiliation.