Quotes about Personal Growth

My parents are worried, of course, but how can I feel sorry for them, since they made me this way and then deserted me?

I am, after all, an adult, a grown man, a useful human being, even though I lost the career that made me all these things. I won't make that mistake again.

I can feel a better version of me somewhere in there—hidden behind a liver or attached to a bit of spleen within my stunted, childish body—a Libby that's telling me to get up, do something, grow up, move on.

El amor hace que quieras ser un hombre mejor, vale, de acuerdo. Pero a lo mejor el amor, el verdadero amor, también te autoriza para ser simplemente el hombre que eres.

I think this experience will make him a better person. Or at least a sorrier one.

Die Liebe weckt in dir den Wunsch, ein bessere Mensch zu werden - gut und schön. Aber vielleicht gibt dir die Liebe, die wahre Liebe, auch die Erlaubnis, einfach der Mensch zu sein, der du bist.

All the stuff I don't like about myself has been pushed to the back of my brain

We have to find personal fulfillment. We have to follow our dreams. We have to say, 'I can do that and I should be allowed to do that'.

When I look at where I've been, I see that what I am becoming is a whole lot further down the road from where I was.

If the shoe doesn't fit, must we change the foot?

Your pants didn't get smaller, Mommy, I assured her. Your butt got bigger.

Challenge isn't going to come from any curriculum, no matter how hard they make it. It's going to come from life.

He'd spent most of his life thinking of his father as kind of a boob. But here on Mount Everest, Eisenhower Holt was the boob you wanted on your side.

That was the day I felt gooder about myself than I'd ever had. I hadn't been much

To understand what a person is, it is necessary always to refer to what he may be in the future, for every state of the person is pointed in the direction of future possibilities.

Kipling: Where's your sense of humor? Rebis: We're working on reconstructing it...

She didn't want to change just to be better. Though there was always better to aspire for. It was very confused.

Why does our sense of individuality prevent us from correcting our weaknesses?

It is in that moment, when you really lay down your cards and see the relationship for what it was, that you'll find the freedom to kick it in the ass and let it go.

The world can be seen from so many different angles. Each of us is born seeing the world in a different way, and each moment we live shapes our eyes and hearts differently.

Compare yourself to who you were yesterday, not to who someone else is today.

We are collections of things that we find and experience and value and keep inside ourselves, sometimes knowingly, sometimes unknowingly, and that collection of things is what we finally become.

If the hour comes, and there's no-one to beg or blame but yourself, you learn that what we have in the end is just a handful more than what was born in us. That unique handful, what we add to what we are, is the only story of us that isn't told by someone else.

If the hour comes, and there's no one to beg or blame but yourself, you learn that what we have in the end is just a handful more than what was born in us. That unique handful is the only story of us that isn't told by someone else