Quotes about Personal Growth

But of course this only tries to make a magic out of being black, as if racial self-love and solidarity were the same thing as individual will and character—as if "black pride" could do the individual's hard work of developing into a person who can compete successfully in the modern world.

We move, we grow, and our response to significant events in our lives can change how we function.

You only find yourself bending over backwards when the bar is too low.

Forget he never wanted this in the first place. Forget he was convinced she might be clinically insane and definitely feral. The bottom line was, she ran. She didn't even stop to shower. She woke up, saw Zach lying next to her, and took to the Texas hills. Not a good sign when one was just starting out in a relationship.

All right. Talk to me darlin'. You're not insane. A little crazy, but not insane. And this...everything you've gotten...in the last few days...do you know how many people would kill for this?" "But...

If I can find the time to do it, I'll probably become a yoga teacher.

I think I realized it was an art form at the beginning, but it took me a really long time before I was able to view what I was performing myself as an art form.

I needed to grow up and do things all adults do. It was time to stop having everything spoon fed to me. It was about being independent.

My 20s were a time where I made it; my 30s were when I was away, confused, and trying to figure it all out.

All of us were tuned in during our early development but we lose our connection to intuition over time as other things come into play.

The trauma of the whole thing has been humbling, and for the first time, I'm a little bit wobbly.

I didn't do a masters in creative writing until I was 26, which is quite old, and then I found myself in New York and I needed money, so I started working full time as an editor.

I learned so many roles so quickly as a young singer, I thought it was time to come back to them and make them better - deeper, more nuanced.

Good authors mature over time: it does take awhile. Travel abroad and learn to live in other cultures. That's one of the things about teaching abroad.

By the time I was ten or eleven, I had a song-book and I was writing everything down. It used to just be my hobby but now it's like my diary, it's where I can go in my own little bubble.

I shined off high school band, marching, jazz studies. At the time I was too cool for school, I had this professional gig and I was going home taking a shower and heading to downtown Hawaii, Waikiki.

Every time I catch myself saying, "Oh no, you shouldn't try that," I think, "Yes, I should."

I had a boyfriend for a long time and I've never really been single as an adult.

My childhood here... was very limited. So it was a long, long time before I actually went out to Brooklyn.

The mystical kundalini is very different. It is a much more intense transformative energy which, when used, allows a person to make tremendous spiritual leaps in a short period of time.

Sometimes books don't find us until the right time.

I got into cooking and I went and cooked in Italy. I became a doula for a while. I built stone walls one summer, and I read a lot, and I swam a lot, and I spent a lot of time thinking.

I've seen time and time again the way that the process of trying to say something dignifies and improves a person.

I think that all my albums are different enough where I don't feel like I did this the last time.