Quotes about Personal Growth

What counts are merely the experiences one gains along the way. -Reinhold Messner

Only secrets can be conquered'- most of all the secrets that lie within ourselves.

We have two lives... the life we learn with and the life we live after that. Suffering is what brings us towards happiness.

If you want to be original just try being yourself, because God has never made two people exactly alike.

I was grateful to have him to support and steer me, even though he wasn't particularly good-looking or with a dashing personality, both attributes I'd imagined for a husband before I was mature enough to accept that it was easier to dream than it was to make the dream come true

she misses the people they used to be, when they were all discovering themselves with no idea how much they might change in the years to come

I just want to be myself, Bibi wow, talk about low ambitions, don't you want to change the world?

If we accept that we cannot change other people, or that we cannot change how we ourselves might be contributing to an unhealthy dynamic, then surely the solution is to make a bid for freedom?

I'm teaching all the time. When am I to learn?

Already I was learning that some of the things I was learning weren't things I'd need to know.

The self is woke and abnegating, line crossing and navigating, more-or-less list making, marked by the immediate and bent by the scene, the superimposition of other people's dreams, and I remembered the essence of a note I had written to a former student, now a man: But might your happiness be more than all the ways you work to make other people happy? Might you soon belong to you?

Get out of the way of your story.

When we've ceased hearing or changing, we need a new environment.

I have to be in a relationship where I can say what I feel even if it's wrong - so we can work through it.

What I want to know it whether we're supposed to change or just accept who we are?

There is a necessary gestation period during which a writer should protect his work, because the minute he sends it out, or joins a writing group, or enrolls in an MFA program, he engages the part of himself that is focused on the result more than the work. For

That's when I saw—cleary saw—that there was more than one mountain in my life. Some could be seen and some couldn't be, but just the same, they were all out there. All out there waiting for me.

Self-esteem is something you have to earn! The only way to achieve self-esteem is to work hard. People have an obligation to live up to their potential.

That is like deciding that you shouldn't take a Spanish class because you don't already speak the language.

The only way for a woman, as for a man, to find herself, to know herself as a person, is by creative work of her own.

Although I hadn't had my hamster ball for long, I loved rolling up and down the aisles of Room 26. You can learn a lot from studying the floor of a classroom. You can find out who is messy (Richie, Mandy) or who is twitchy (Seth, Art). You can even find out who is growing the fastest by seeing whose jeans are a little short (Garth, Sayeh).

If you cannot increase reflective power in people, you might as well not teach, because reflection is the only thing that in the long run changes anybody

We do not go to school to be a success, we go to school to learn to hopefully be a success one day and if not then our plan in life lies elswhere and that is good ......

Part of growing up is just taking what you learn from that and moving on and not taking it to heart.