Quotes about Personal Growth

It's just that the thing you never understand about being a mother, until you are one, is that it is not the grown man – the galumphing, unshaven, stinking, opinionated offspring – you see before you, with his parking tickets and unpolished shoes and complicated love life. You see all the people he has ever been all rolled up into one.

Kau membatasi dirimu dari segala macam pengalaman karena kau meyakini bahwa kau 'bukan orang semacam itu'. - Jojo Moyes : Me Before You hlm.272

She loved feeling as if she was doing a job that meant something, testing herself each day, changing people's lives word by word.

My voice lifted in the little room. "No. You're wrong. You tell me he was in the same place before I came. You tell me he hasn't changed his outlook even a little bit just through me being here." "I can't see inside his head, Lou." "You know I've changed the way he thinks." "No, I know that he will do pretty much anything to make you happy.

I've watched you these six months becoming a whole different person, someone who is only just beginning to see her possibilities. You have no idea how happy that has made me.

I was twenty-six years old and I wasn't really sure what I was.

She had earned every one of her bruises and blisters, had built a new Alice over the frame of one with whom she never felt entirely comfortable.

I liked the fact that I could be who I wanted to be without my sister's voice reminding me of who I had been.

I had walked away from Patrick knowing deep down that, for both of us, our relationship had become a habit, a pair of shoes you might no really love but wore because you couldn't be bothered to get new ones.

Sono stati i sei mesi più belli di tutta la mia vita" gli dissi. Seguì un lungo silenzio. "Guarda caso, Clark, è stato lo stesso anche per me.

I know my son." "Our son." "Yes. Our son." More my son, I found myself thinking. You were never really there for him. Not emotionally. You were just the absence he was always striving to impress.

A man goes to the village to visit the wise man and he says to the wise man, "I feel like there are two dogs inside me. One dog is this positive, loving, kind, and gentle dog and then I have this angry, mean-spirited, and negative dog and they fight all the time. I don't know which is going to win." The wise man thinks for a moment and he says, "I know which is going to win. The one you feed the most, so feed the positive dog.

To build a winning team, you must help your players and staff have amnesia about past outcomes and remember all the little things they did to get better.

Find the value in this rock and you will find a priceless treasure inside yourself and in all the people you encounter.

While most people approach their work with the mindset they just want to get it done, craftspeople are more concerned with who they are becoming and what they are creating whether than how fast they finish it.

Life is a test. Every adversity helps us grow. Negative events and people teach us what we don't want so we can focus our energy on what we do want.

Every crisis offers an opportunity to grow stronger and wiser; to reach deep within and discover a better you that will create a better outcome. So while this is your crisis, what matters most is what you do with it.

Success is measured by what we accomplish instead of who we become.

Every crisis offers an opportunity to grow stronger and wiser; to reach deep within and discover a better you that will create a better outcome.

Everybody screws up, ... Remember that. The trick is to realize it and start fixing the screwup.

Note that this journey is uniquely yours, no one else's. So the path has to be your own. You cannot imitate somebody else's journey and still be true to yourself. Are you prepared to honor your uniqueness in this way?

When a young person is moved by a passion and feels compelled to go on this sort of quest, I think you have to let him. You can't stop him. In our culture we don't have formal rights of passage like in some ancient cultures. Subjecting yourself to risk... may be something you have to go through to be a man or a woman.

Evolution is necessary for ones progress…. resisting it could make one sore in mind and spirit and then unable to enjoy the journey.

The unfortunate, truly exciting thing about your life is that there is no core curriculum. . . . So don't worry about your grade or the results or success. Success is defined in myriad ways, and you will find it, and people will no longer be grading you.