Quotes about Personal Growth

I was like that for the first few months. Then I came back to reality and realized that if I was going to remain sane, I needed to let the poor child out of my arms every now and then. It's working out and we're all much happier.

Figure out what is real for you. No use leaning on someone else's story all your life...go make your happily-ever-after happen.

Figure out what is real for you. No use leaning on someone else's story all your life.

Reading a book is like going on a great journey. You don't know what'll happen, but something is bound to change. And for me, that change has always been good.

It hurts to be lost. And worse to be home with no kind of homecoming...I'll be lucky if I can do as well as you when all this's done, just a bit out of breath, a bit bruised and scratched, a bit wiser and sadder for it all.

But man, can she snore," Cedar smiled wistfully, "Do you think when I become a real girl I'll be able to snore, too?

Okay, okay, I can do this, Jane said to herself. Of course I can do this. I should be used to making a fool out of myself by now. This will be the last big one. Just three weeks and then I can leave this part of myself behind and get on with my life. And maybe it'll be fun. It might even be fun.

I cannot write to anyone outside myself--if I tried, it would be a horrible story, flat and lifeless. I write to myself. That's the only person I'm trying to please.

Other people may not have high expectations of me, But I have high expectations for myself.

Other people may not have had high expectations for me...but I had high expectations for myself

But I'm trying not to be cynical - I don't want to be one of those people who has a cool opportunity and blows it. It's really amazing what's happening to me.

Le persone si stancano quando sono troppo grandi.

he wasn't crying for the woman who had died. He was crying for the woman she had been.

Forgiveness is a personal process that doesn't depend on us having direct contact with the people who have hurt us.

You have not traveled enough," she said. "Or you'd know that every journey makes its own map across your heart.

Oh, sometimes I continue to step on my tongue or go where I shouldn't, but all in all, there is so much work to be done.

Only by underrating yourself can you keep on improve

What drives me now is the fact that I feel like I still have so many tricks that I want to learn and so many things that I can still do. And so many cool things outside of sports that I have been doing.

From now on I want to follow my heart, to do what is right for me. Instead of trusting myself, I trusted the world more. Why did I trust it for so long? All the time I was listening to myself, did I ever make a mistake? I often did. But isn't the freedom to make mistakes bigger and more important than all the advice in this world?

Red is all right, I thought to myself. Wherever and whatever he is or will be, he is all right. It is I who must be made well. There's a hole inside me that will have to be filled up. And an aching that will have to grow less.

Sheila O'Flanagan

I think that everything you do helps you to write if you're a writer. Adversity and success both contribute largely to making you what you are. If you don't experience either one of those, you're being deprived of something.

I think making mistakes and discovering them for yourself is of great value, but to have someone else to point out your mistakes is a shortcut of the process.

I think that everything you do helps you to write if you're a writer. Adversity and success both contribute largely to making you what you are. If you don't experience either one of those, you're being deprived of something.