Quotes about Personal Growth

I seldom end up where I wanted to go, but almost always end up where I need to be.

if there was one thing life had taught her it was that there are times when you do not go back for your bag and other times when you do. It had yet to teach her to distinguish between the two types of occasion.

If there's one thing that life's taught me," said Tricia, "it's never go back for your bag.

I was attempting to do something I had never done before, and whenever we challenge ourselves, fear and doubt are inevitable. I am not sure we ever vanquish these voices. Whenever we are at the edge of our ability and experience, they always whisper in our ears, their worried words. I have come to see that these voices are actually trying to keep us safe as they warn us away from the unfamiliar and the unknown, but this does not make their daggers of self-doubt any less painful.

I cry because the future has once again found its sparkle and has grown a million times larger. And I cry because I am ashamed of how badly I have treated the people I love–of how badly I behaved during my own personal Dark Ages–back before I had a future and someone who cared for me from above. It is like today the sky opened up and only now am I allowed to enter

This was not a good idea coming home for Christmas. I'm too old. Years ago, coming back from schools or trips, I always expected some sort of new perspective or fresh insight about the family on returning. That doesn't happen anymore-the days of revelation about my parents, at least, are over... its time to move on. I think we'd all appreciate that.

It's amazing how you can be a total shithead, and yet your soul still wants to hang out with you.

Douglas L. Wilson

Anger and tenderness: my selves

You must write, and read, as if your life depended on it.

As I often tell my students, the person you'll have the hardest time opening to and truly loving without reserve is yourself. Once you can do that, you can love the whole universe unconditionally.

In meditation you are not trying to change your experience; you are changing your relationship to your experience.

One must make one's own mistakes

You see, I am not very good in company. I am clumsy. I am shy. [...] I always say the wrong thing. I upset water jugs. I am unlucky." "We all do these things when we are young. The poise, the savoir faire , comes later.

No human being should learn from another. Each individual should develop his own powers to the uttermost, not try to imitate those of someone else. I do not wish you to be a second and inferior Poirot. I wish you to be the supreme Hastings. And you are the supreme Hastings. In you, Hastings, I find the normal mind almost perfectly illustrated.

It's second nature to make the best of yourself.

It's second nature to make the best of yourself. I'd made a point of that at school and onwards, boasted about things a bit, said a few things stretching the truth a bit I wasn't ashamed of it. Uriah something his name was, always going about being humble and rubbing his hands, and actually planning and scheming behind that humility. I didn't want to be like that." -Mike Rogers Endless Night by Agatha Christie

It is in his pleasure that a man really lives; it is from his leisure that he constructs the true fabric of self.

My path has not been determined. I shall have more experiences and pass many more milestones.

Your doubts about your teacher can help you. Take from your teacher what is good, and be aware of your own practice. Wisdom is yourself to watch and develop.

In every character I play, I try to imbibe something. Every film is a learning process for me.

But I prefer to think of my brother as a negative strip of film that led to my own development as a positive image.

On the path of the budo one does not strive for victory over an opponent. One strive to avoid defeat by one's own self.

Anyone who isn't embarrassed of who they were last year probably isn't learning enough.