Quotes about Personal Growth

Love is a fine cushion to rest upon, but only hate can make you a better person.

I love my friends and my past, and it's made me who I am.

There are guys I'd love to learn from, but they wouldn't be a good fit for me, so I read their blogs and books.

I just want to keep things going. I just love testing myself.

I love to challenge myself.

Yeah, but coming from Dudley that's like "I love you.

As you get older, it's always a process of self-love, learning how to really do that for yourself instead of trying to find it outside yourself.

in due time you'll learn there is life after a lost love!

Maureen Reynolds

I hope what I've learned helps you find your way. Most of all, I hope you've learned that in this world of mines and crafting, the most important thing you can craft is you.

shuffle. "I told myself that I had to figure out all the rules of this world, but I get now that I've gotta go further.

Do not meditate on the mess.

him" (Deut. 11:2 TEV). Rather than ask God to change your circumstances, ask him to use your circumstances to change you. Life is a required course. Might as well do your best to pass it. God is at work in each of us whether

You make mistakes, mistakes don't make you

Self-improvement is the name of the game, and your primary objective is to strengthen yourself, not to destroy an opponent.

Such a man knows that whatever is wrong in the world is in himself, and if he only learns to deal with his own shadow he has done something real for the world.

There is no doubt that solitude is a challenge and to maintain balance within it a precarious business. But I must not forget that, for me, being with people or even with one beloved person for any length of time without solitude is even worse. I lose my center. I feel dispersed, scattered, in pieces. I must have time alone in which to mull over any encounter, and to extract its juice, its essence, to understand what has really happened to me as a consequence of it. After

Every relation challenges; every relation asks me to be something, do something, respond. Close off response and what is left? Bearing...enduring...waiting.

Adventures may be for the adventurous, but home is where the real things are sown and reaped, where in the end the real things happen. They

She had not imagined that she would be so fertilized by a human being again.

Whatever people I take into my life I take in because they challenge me and I challenge them at the deepest level. Such relationships are rarely serene, but they are nourishing.

of its growing. I really must

I've learned that I still have a lot to learn.

The sisters and brothers that you meet give you the materials which your character uses to build itself. It is said that some people are born great, others achieve it, some have it thrust upon them. In truth, the ways in which your character is built have to do with all three of those. Those around you, those you choose, and those who choose you.