Quotes about Personal Growth

As you gain more control over your past and present relationship with your parents, you will discover that your other relationships, especially your relationship with yourself, will improve dramatically. You will have the freedom, perhaps for the first time, to enjoy your own life.

When a woman believes that there is a magic key, she is likely to expend all her energy in the fruitless task of trying to find it, and in the process she relinquishes her right to good treatment. Because her emotional well-being is tied to her partner's mercurial moods, she loses her ability to act in her own best interest's, to be assertive, and to have confidence in her decisions.

I have a horrible time trying to figure out who I am, what I want, or what I need. I'm just beginning to figure it out. The hardest part is for me to like myself. Every time I try, I hear Daddy telling me what an awful kid I was.

You have told the truth about your life to yourself and your parents, and the fear that kept you trapped in your old role with them can no longer control you.

So many people fail to realise that the greatest journey one can ever take is the journey to the very centre of one's being.

As Maya Angelou said, 'I did then what I knew how to do. Now that I know better, I do better.

Six months of therapy three years ago had left her more confused than ever.

Everyone made mistakes. The measure of a person was what happened afterward. Later

None of us is exactly how we want to be. The goal is to be the best person we can be, given our flaws.

It's easy to see what's wrong with other people. It's correcting our own lives that's hard.

Kurz hatte sie darüber nachgedacht, in eine größere Stadt zu ziehen, dann aber erkannt, dass sie im Grunde ihres Herzens ein Kleinstadtmädchen war.

Evolve in a positive way? Maybe she should stop checking self-help books out of the library for a few weeks and relax with a nice romance instead.

healing, like life, was a journey, not a destination, then she would keep moving forward. And one day, she would realize the hole in her heart had filled in just enough to be survivable.

I'm saying you're comfortable. That makes it hard to do the work that change requires.

No one completes us.  No one is our missing piece, our other half.  We complete ourselves or fail to.   No one else could be successful in that role because each of us is utterly unique.  There isn't another "you" anywhere on this planet.  If you somehow feel incomplete, the answers aren't out there somewhere.  The answers are in the room.  You have them.  

I am only interested in people engaged in a project of self-transformation.

Most of my reading is rereading.

In the journal I do not just express myself more openly than I could to any person; I create myself.

The voice of a person thinking, discovering, revising, is ever-present without any loss in grace or ease.

Nobody can fix another person. But everybody tries.

I could tell you my adventures—beginning from this morning,' said Alice a little timidly: 'but it's no use going back to yesterday, because I was a different person then.

Grace was trying to make peace with the fact that it was not her job to absorb every single bump and bruise for her loved ones. Surviving something terrible was a personal journey, and doing the work on one's own was the surest path to healing.

Adoption is the start of a bittersweet and difficult emotional journey. It's also the most rewarding and selfless thing I've ever done.

People Should not be protected from the world.. -It cripples them.