Quotes about Personal Growth

Honoring the Self, an excellent book on self-esteem written by Nathaniel Branden.

We cannot begin to work on ourselves, to live our own lives, feel our own feelings, and solve our own problems until we have detached from the object of our obsession.

When a codependent discontinued their relationship with a troubled person, the codependent frequently sought another troubled person and repeated the codependent behaviors with that new person. These behaviors, or coping mechanisms, seemed to prevail throughout the codependent's life—if they didn't change these behaviors.

I believe we can successfully turn every aspect of our lives into a goal. If it bothers us, make it a goal. If we're aware something needs to be changed, make it a goal. If we want it, make it a goal.

I think we all need to learn to like ourselves-just the way we are. And if there are moderate ways to improve our looks and if we're doing it for the right reasons (not to impress our friends!), then maybe it's just fine. Beauty is very subjective-meaning that it all depends on your personal taste. I think that's why God made us all different. So instead of turning ourselves into cookie-cutter images of the latest fashion icon, why not take a moment to enjoy our differences?

To find the right person, you must first BE the right person.

He had no longer any need for home, for he carried his Gormenghast within him. All that he sought was jostling within himself. He had grown up. What a boy had set out to seek a man had found, found by the act of living.

A challenge that tested Tom to his limit but in return gave him more than he could ever have imagined.

You beat yourself.

But Mum and Dad just loved me, regardless, and that has helped me so much in my life: to have the confidence to just be myself and to go for things.

Consider the billionaire who flies into the South Pole for an hour to 'experience' it, compared to the man who has toiled, sweated and struggled across hundreds and hundreds of miles of ice, dragging a humble sledge. You see, it is the journey that makes the man. And life is all about our growth, not our trophies.

It's in the act of having to do things that you don't want to that you learn something about moving past the self. Past the ego.

think about the contradictions and complexities that beset people.

without a core foundation of healthy self-esteem we can't practice self love.

If we develop in-depth knowledge it will enable us to give our best to others and help to make a better world.

Maybe that is the best lesson I learned in my first semester at Yale, because if I had gone to a less-demanding school and continued to sail along on the top, I am sure I would never have attained the subsequent achievements in my life.

I had focused on the failure because I had not yet acquired the wisdom necessary to attain a better perspective.

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The happiness of those who want to be popular depends on others; the happiness of those who seek pleasure fluctuates with moods outside their control; but the happiness of the wise grows out of their own free acts. —Marcus Aurelius

Can't do better until I know better!

Experience makes good people better. She was staring at the lake. How does it do that? Through their suffering. I had enough of that, he said in disgust. We have two lives, Roy, the life we learn with and the life we live with after that. Suffering is what brings us toward happiness All it taught me was to stay away from it. I am sick of all I have suffered. She shrank away a little.

being trans wasn't about playacting an identity on a whim, it's about becoming your true self in spite of society's pressures to be otherwise, most people on the trans spectrum felt different from childhood

Wenn Ihr den Mist in Eurem Leben schon nicht loslassen könnt, packt ihn wenigstens hinter Euch, dass er Euch nicht andauernd den Blick auf die Zukunft versperrt.

You must want to be more than you once were, and more than you are now. Something unfamiliar is required of each of us. We must sow our seeds in frozen ground to be able to harvest in spring.