Quotes about Personal Growth

A book can't take the place of a man!» «I disagree. A book can give you most things a relationship can. It can make you laugh, it can make you cry, it can transport you to different worlds and teach you things. You can even take it out to dinner. And if bores you, you can move on. Which is pretty much what happens in real life.»

So we die before our own eyes; so we see some chapters of our lives come to their natural end.

I must be better, she thought—realising it then, in that moment, for the first time. I must be OK.

DO NOT SEARCH FOR SECURITY in the world you inhabit. You tend to make mental checklists of things you need to do in order to gain control of your life. If only you could check everything off your list,

You had to make yourself know about the good things

In the Peace Corps, the volunteer must be a fully developed, mature person. He must not join to run abroad or escape problems.

You must welcome tests because it gives you confidence and it ensures promotion.

What is imposed on us by birth and environment is what we are called upon to overcome.

Losing a parent is something like driving through a plate-glass window. You didn't know it was there until it shattered, and then for years to come you're picking up the pieces -- down to the last glassy splinter.

I surrendered my beliefs and found myself at the tree of life injecting my story into the veins of leaves only to find that stories like forests are subject to seasons

Part of the reason that I moved to Los Angeles is that even though my mom introduced me to all kinds of music, I really wanted to work on having my own identify, on being who I am and doing what I do, and seeing how people responded.

Without change and the occasional struggle, we can't learn or grow.

We all suffer wounds in our childhoods. We do what we have to do to protect ourselves, but we forget when we become adults that the armor made to survive our youth no longer serves us. It's for use in the last war, the struggles of childhood, not the war or the peace of the present and the future. Keeping that armor keeps us immature. We can't grow with it on. Yet removing it is painful. Taking it off means our true selves will be revealed.

We all suffer wounds in our childhoods. We do what we have to do to protect ourselves, but we forget when we become adults that the armor made to survive our youth no longer serves us.

Self-discovery is the process of learning about who you are as an individual, independent from your friends, family, employer, or nation.

we met shoe shopping and she asked me out. over drinks she said aren't you going to kiss me? when i dumped her over the phone four months later, she told me i had been a lovely person to love.

I'm feeling much better now that I've found my mind.

Just remember it's not the experience that matters—it's what you do with the experience. Nothing

Look around. Pay attention to the stories of people who are finishing first. Then realize that all of your excuses are just that—excuses. Ask what has worked for others and how you can make it work for you, too. Ask yourself how you can leverage your unique skills and strengths to accomplish the unthinkable.

It's not about where you are today; it's about where you're going to be. We have to remind ourselves: This is where I am, but it is not where I'm always going to be.

Caterpillars can fly, if they just lighten up.

This is your life, your one and only life, so take excellence very personally.

Each of us must walk our own path, most of us blindly, and that whatever guidance we can give one another is a bonus.

One of his sayings is, 'When the walls fall down, all we have left is the enemy within.