Quotes about Personal Growth

If you hate life, you haven't seen enough of it. If you hate your life, it's because your life is too small and doesn't fit you.

Loss creates a greater overall surface area within a person. You expand as a result of it. Though it may very well feel like the opposite.

The best person you can be is the person you are when you are alone on a random Thursday. That's who you are.

for me it provided a kaleidoscopic view of everything that was wrong with me. I could already feel it opening all the windows in my head, giving me a panoramic view of my flaws

This sounds fine with me, I like the idea of seeing a shrink once a week as maintenance. It's another chance to talk about myself without being interrupted. Plus, a shrink doesn't really know me, so I can present a more balanced picture of who I really am.

Exactly! What you are doing is 'telling on your addict.

work only during the week, and even then I often find excuses not to sit down and bang out the words. I am a marvelously effective procrastinator. I get right to it. And yet, over these thirty days, I never wrote fewer than two pages a day and sometimes wrote as many as ten. I have once or twice before in my life written this much in a single month, but never with such ease and pleasure. Maybe I've turned into one of those clone robots of myself my therapist asked me to imagine! I

What greater wealth is there than to own your life and to spend it on growing? Every living thing must grow. It can't stand still. It must grow or perish.

every man is free to rise as far as he's able or willing, but the degree to which he thinks determines the degree to which he'll rise.

It Is Hard To Let Go Of The Past If You Have Not Learned From The Past. As Soon As You Learn And Let Go, You Improve The Present Today.

when you put your ego aside, you are more likely to leave a Valley sooner.

you do not learn in a Valley, you can become bitter. If you truly learn something valuable, you can become better. But if that was true, what was it that he needed

the biggest inhibitor to change lies within yourself, and that nothing gets better until you. change.

I enjoyed the feeling that comes with becoming a better person.

mayor inhibidor del cambio se encuentra dentro de uno mismo, y que nada puede mejorar mientras no cambie uno mismo.

Decidió que, si volvía a tener la oportunidad, abandonaría antes su zona de comodidad y se adaptaría con mayor rapidez al cambio. Eso le facilitaría las cosas en el futuro. Luego

He had come a long way since his conviction, as a twenty-year-old, that honesty could not be counterfeited.

He who must be what he is, may curse his fate, but cannot change it; on the other hand, he who can transform himelf has no one in the world but himself to hold responsible for his dissatisfaction.

In Cecil B. DeMille's 1920 film Why Change Your Wife? , the usually glamorous Gloria Swanson played a wife who wore glasses, listened to classical music, and read such books as How to Improve Your Mind . It was obvious to the audience why her husband left her for a perfumed, short-skirted man chaser. But a happy ending was achieved when Swanson's character ordered some sleeveless, backless dresses and devoted herself to improving her dance steps instead of her mind.

Every moment built up to this point; every skill I've acquired, every pain-filled memory leads me here. Finally, I know what I am made for.

Learning to be a lady / is like learning / to live within a shell, / to be a crustacean encased / in a small white / uncomfortable world.

We're more valuable broken.

My therapist told me I need to learn to love myself. It sounds easy enough, but really, how do you just wake up one day and learn that? It feels like something you should just do involuntarily, like swallowing or blinking, but now I have to work on it. It feels so forced. I mean, I know I went to a good school, and people tell me I'm smart and creative, but I don't KNOW that. I don't know how to make myself feel that.

living through adversity is a character-building opportunity for those brave enough to learn about themselves and the world through their unease.