Quotes about Personal Growth

We can be whoever we want to be. We can make a new future now. If we make mistakes, at least those mistakes will be ours.

And it took me, since I was 17 and left home, running from God, to now, as a 30-year-old man, when I honestly feel like I've come full circle and my heart's finally in the right place.

Everyone in the world was programmed by the place they were born, hemmed in by their beliefs, but you had to at least try to grow your own brain.

You carried your own burden and very soon your symptoms of creeping privilege disappeared.

Progress occurs one apology at a time.

Take your time. There's no rush to be good or renowned.

Rather than spend so much time wondering if I'm going to get hired, or is it a problem that I've got this black-tar history, I've just got to keep doing what I'm doing and try to be decent.

This year has been full of lessons learned and soul searching and realizing I'm an adult. It's time to take responsibility and not take the easy way out.

The philosopher spends in becoming a man the time which the ambitious man spends in becoming a personage.

In time of sickness the soul collects itself anew.

I'm never proud of my old work. I always feel as though my skills have since improved.

I remember how beautiful it was to fall asleep on your couch and cry in front of you for the first time. You were the best platform from which to jump beyond myself. What was wrong with me?

I knew her hair and her coloring and her shapes would be different next time, but the way she wore her body would keep on.

Sea Change was so specific. From the beginning it was set what it was going to be. All the other ideas that I had at the time I had to put to the side.

Gish was the best representation of where we were at the time.

I'm trying to play guitar every day. I think I have a gift, and I've not been nurturing it for a long time. So I'm trying to pick it back up.

The only other time I've been away from home was when I went to college. And that was just an hour away, so I could always go home if I needed to.

I've grown up a little bit. I'm almost 40 years old now. But everyone was introduced to me when I was 18 and I looked like I was 15. I've been around a long time.

I'd like to think that I'm getting slightly more mature as time goes on, but I don't know if my fiancee would necessarily agree.

Any man worth his salt has by the time he is forty-five accumulated a crown of thorns, and the problem is to learn to wear it over one ear.

It took a little time to get where I wanted. It took a little time to get free. It took a little time to be honest. It took a little time to be me.

So I've been pushed farther and farther out into the mountains, but at the same time realizing that that experience is really nice and I'm glad I'm getting pushed out there farther.

The best decision I ever made was to invest in myself, both financially and time-wise.

I haven't had the time to do a lot of writing. But nothing's really changed about me. It's just my day-to-day activities have changed, and as a person, I have to adapt to those changes.