Quotes about Personal Growth

I never count countries. Travel is not a contest.

Just imagine if you took all the money you've spent on these things and traveled around the world with it, instead, or bought books and read them. Think about how much you would know about life.

You can travel the world but If you cannot let go of the past, you will never move on.

Our brains are like bonsai trees, growing around our private versions of reality.

I took a walk in the woods and came out taller than the trees.

Today I have grown taller from walking with the trees.

Sometimes we just have to cut off the dead branches in our life. Sometimes that's the only way we can keep the tree alive. It's hard and it hurts, but it's what's best.

When you're five and you hurt, you make a big noise in the world. At ten you whimper. But by the time you make fifteen you begin to eat the poisoned apples that grow on your own inner tree of pain.

Just as the acorn contains the mighty oak tree, the Self has everything it needs to fulfill its destiny. When the inner conditions are right, it naturally emerges.

I try to grow like a tree, and hope that I can reach my full potential by the end of this short life. Change is good but growth is better.

Those who behave in ways that displease you are sending out their disharmony toward you because that is what they have to give away. Hating them is akin to hating moss for growing on a tree.

Depart from the highway, and transplant thyself in some enclosed ground; for it is hard for a tree that stands by the wayside to keep her fruit till it be ripe.

A man can't make a place for himself in the sun if he keeps taking refuge under the family tree.

The swan who goes on living in its parents' tree will die; this is why those who are beautiful and talented bear the burden of finding their own way in the world.

To be able to walk under the branches of a tree that you have planted is really to feel you have arrived with your garden. So far we are on the way: we can now stand beside ours.

My dad passed away...and suddenly I found myself at the top of the tree and looking at the sky instead of at my mom and dad.

People aren't trees, so it is false when they speak of roots.

Short stories, for me, it's like you step inside this brand new car and you drive it and you drive it into a tree and you walk away from it.

I absolutely trust that every animal and person has their own very necessary journey.

I can trust my friends... these people force me to examine myself, encourage me to grow.

To trust yourself to test your limits. That is the courage to succeed.

At some point in life's journey, professionally and personally, we have to be able to trust our preparation.

Let it be your maxim through life, to know all you can know, yourself; and never to trust implicitly to the information of others.

Trust yourself to do what you really feel like doing, and what you feel like doing will change. Don't, and it will plague you.