Quotes about Personal Growth

My role-options in life and career, I realized, were not limited to Businessman, Athlete, and Boneheaded Patriot.

I thought of you when I read this quote from The War of Art by Steven Pressfield, Shawn Coyne - Most of us have two lives. The life we live, and the unlived life within us. Between the two stands Resistance.

When we conceive an enterprise and commit to it in the face of our fears, something wonderful happens. A crack appears in the membrane. Like the first craze when a chick pecks at the inside of its shell. Angel midwives congregate around us; they assist as we give birth to ourselves, to that person we were born to be, to the one whose destiny was encoded in our soul, our daimon, our genius.

The more important an activity is to your soul's evolution, the more you will feel resistance to it.

Most of us have two lives. The life we live, and the unlived life within us. Between the two stands Resistance. Have

Most of us have two lives. The life we live , and the unlived life within us. Between the two stands Resistance

One of the greatest gifts you can give your husband is your own wholeness.

There is a lot of growing required.

and worked her way up to major and

maybe it was time to at least pretend to be a nicer person than i knew i was

In the meantime, I have work of my own to do and a life that feels richer for his having been a part of it.

Maturity would have been a big help, but that didn't come until later.

the way she felt about her past was that she had somehow come into being who she was without any connection to it. As if floating in naked and unencumbered on some shell

At forty-two, I had never done anything that took my own breath away, and I suppose now that was part of the problem--my chronic inability to astonish myself. I promise you, no one judges me more harshly than I do myself; I caused a brilliant wreckage. Some say I fell from grace; they're being kind. I didn't fall. I dove.

I promise you, no one judges me more harshly than I do myself; I caused a brilliant wreckage. Some say I fell from grace; they're being kind. I didn't fall – I dove.

How could I choose someone who would force me to give up my own small reach for meaning? I chose myself, and without consolation.

This surprised me because it made me realize that what I sought was not outside myself. It was within me, already there, waiting. Awakening was really the act of remembering myself, remembering this deep Feminine Source.

You have to find a mother inside yourself. We all do. Even if we already have a mother, we still have to find this part of ourselves inside.

I was willful, impulsive, composed of strange hopes and selfish rebellion. I must have been very hard for her to love.

If I'd been a thorn in Mother's side, Angelina would be the whole briar patch.

Each of us must turn inward and destroy in himself all that he thinks he ought to destroy in others."21

May Sarton novel, The Reckoning, Ella writes to her friend Laura, "Do you suppose growing up always means diluting [our] fierce purpose for the sake of others?"4

The life you're living can be torn apart like Osiris's and a new one pieced together. Some of you might die and a new self will rise up to take it's place.

But today when I am 17 and warm and well fed, I'm keeping this journal for myself so I can always remember life as we knew it, life as we know it, for a time when I am no longer in the sunroom.