Quotes about Personal Growth

In the beginning of life, we're on fire and want to change the world. Yet as we get older, we realize how difficult that is, so we think that if we can have a positive influence on those around us, we'll have lived a worthwhile life. As we get older still, we understand that we can change no one, and simply look for the courage to change ourselves.

The drive to Black Rock City from San Francisco leads through the Nevada flatlands, past the jittering neon sadness of Reno.

Of course, an unchanged mind is a little like unchanged underwear. It tends to get unattractive even to the person whose mind or underwear it is.

Reading Plan • 30 minutes per day of Scripture time • 30 minutes per day reading on business and leadership • Google News daily • Read HBR and Fast Company monthly • Read twelve books on business and leadership this year

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As Jack Welch, the famous former CEO of General Electric, once said, "Before you become a leader, success is all about growing yourself. When you become a leader, success is all about growing others.

Self realization rocks

I dislike people who get out of things unscraped. No scars, no scratches. Agnosceo veteris vestigia flamme. Refined through a scar.

It's inconvenient and it's maddening and it's frustrating and it's sometimes painfully difficult to love another person, even or especially our own child. But this love is our spiritual practice. It is our work and our task down here on this mortal coil. It is not only the oxygen that we offer to our children, it's what makes us able to breathe, ourselves.

and now I laugh at how the world changed me, and I think life chose me . . . after all.

Everyone was here to figure something out, not to get something right.

Did you ever notice that when you read the same book again and again, the book doesn't change, but you do?

You'll see, there are a million ways to kill off the soft parts of yourself.

at mid-life the process Jung called "individuation" begins in earnest. It is the process of making those choices that will express one's own unique answer to the problem of death. "If I must die someday, and I cannot do everything, then I must choose what I will do, what matters most, who I will be in the time allotted to me." Figure

And I am flawed but I am cleaning up so well.

through a scenario where he fails, and then you put him through it again and he succeeds. First you revealed a flaw in his armor and then you taught him how to shore up that weakness. In so doing, you brought him out the other end of the exercise as a superior warrior.

Thus, some individuals may skip certain stages, or blend them, or pass through them so fleetingly that they do not even acknowledge their presence.

Development is not about learning how to counsel but about becoming the kind of person who can counsel.

I learned early on that work creates discipline, and when you have discipline in your life, you are a healthier person.

If you keep doing the same things, you will keep getting the same results. You are where you are right now financially as a sum total of the decisions you've made to this point.

Admission to the school of self-inquiry is dependent rather on our motivation, willingness, and effort to explore the inner dimensions of our being.

The hardest math ever is Life, each one of us has a different question.

Life is a competition... Not with others, but with ourselves. We should seek each day to live stronger, better, truer lives. Each to master some weakness of yesterday. Each day to repair a mistake; Each day to surpass ourselves.

But while talent—not to mention fate, luck and tragedy—all play their role in human destiny, they hardly rank as dependable tools for advancing your own art on a day-to-day basis.