Quotes about Personal Growth

I did then what I knew best, when I knew better, I did better. Maya Angelo

To grow up is to stop putting blame on parents

You may not control all the events that happen to you, but you can decide not to be reduced by them. Try to be a rainbow in someone's cloud. Do not complain. Make every effort to change things you do not like. If you cannot make a change, change the way you have been thinking. You might find a new solution.

Living well is an art which can be developed.

A person must make the effort to learn, and growing is the inevitable reward of learning.

I've learned, I still have a lot to learn

Most people don't grow up. It's too damn difficult. What happens is most people get older. That's the truth of it. They honor their credit cards, they find parking spaces, they marry, they have the nerve to have children, but they don't grow up. Not really.

Style is as unique and nontransferable and perfectly personal as a fingerprint. It is wise to take the time to develop one's own way of being, increasing those things one does well and eliminating the elements in one's character which can hinder and diminish the good personality.

I love you, Mom. Maybe now you'll have a chance to grow up.

You're my daughter. Don't take tea for the fever. You are your own woman.

Baby, the fifties are everything you've been meaning to be.

You've given me reason to really live and not just exist anymore. I don't think you realize just how much you've changed me in a very short period of time.

You're what happened, Ash. You.

I want to go to school. College. Get a degree. I want to make a difference.

But things were different now. I finally had my head -pun intended- on straight.

There are nice, funny, totally good-looking guys out there. You just have to know where to look…and apparently, where NOT to look.

We need to take big risks if we want to find out who we are, and what we were put on this planet for.

Sometimes, we need to take big risks if we want to find out who we are, and what we were put on this planet for.

dia ingin memastikan dirinya lebih baik dari orang lain. Sedangkan kau hanya ingin menjadi orang yang lebih baik... - Perkataan Aris Kepada Costis

life is mostly an exercise in being something other than what we used to be

It is not always a bad thing for you to be challenged by life and to struggle; however, as you go through these times, you have to be careful not to lose yourself in the process.

Up until that moment, I'd been at the earliest stage of love, when you feel it will turn you into the better person you want to be. Now, his gentle voice and sage advice took me to a later stage: I felt I needed to pretend to be a better person than I was so he'd keep loving me. This was hard because it made me hate him.

Today was the first day of the rest of my life. It was okay, I think the second day of the rest of my life will be better

I said, What's your goal in life? and winced at how corny and earnest I sounded. He looked away. He thought. I guess I'm trying to become a better man than the one I'm hardwired to be.