Quotes about Personal Growth

I finally said, 'I don't care if you're the first person in your family to be a lawyer.' Everybody thought what I was doing was really exciting, but it was not moving me one bit. And that's when I decided to join city government in Chicago, and that changed my life.

I had been played at left back, right back, and I just felt like I wasn't developing as a player. I saw the opportunity to join Tottenham and I took it, because I felt it was the best decision for all parties.

Eventually, I joined a church. I didn't go there to find a boyfriend; I truly wasn't looking for anyone other than the person I wanted to be.

When I joined the Australia team, I was 17 or 18.

I wasn't drawn to comedy: it was drawn to me - from fighting in school to going to jail, then joining the military and getting into Hollywood.

The best decision I made at NYU was joining the Shakespeare ensemble. It literally led to everything I did after that. It gave me the kind of confidence I really needed.

When I moved to Bengaluru to study law, I was looking forward to joining a theatre troupe.

I'm proud that I don't make crazy jokes anymore.

One can always push oneself a little bit beyond what only yesterday was thought to be the absolute limit of one's endurance,

I think I'm going to cut down on my dating,' Annie said. 'I used to need a lot of attention. You know, to make up for that empty feeling inside. But boys aren't always the answer.

Natural abilities are like natural plants, that need pruning, by study; and studies themselves do give forth directions too much at large, except they be bounded in by experience.

Nunca mejora su estado quien muda solamente de lugar, y no de vida y costumbres.

The stratagems by which briefly you ameliorated, even seemingly untwisted what still twists within you — you loved their taste and lay there on your side nursing like a puppy.

College is a singular opportunity to rummage through and luxuriate in ideas, to give your brain a vigorous workout and your soul a thorough investigation, to realize how very large the world is and to contemplate your desired place in it.

Tom said people should repaint their houses in and out, especially in, at least once a year—because who wants to live with the memories of themselves?

The measure of a man's culture is the measure of his appreciation. We are ourselves what we appreciate and no more.

Stock your mind. It is your house of treasure and no one in the world can interfere with it.

I also knew that I was on my way to becoming the worst athlete in the history of American boyhood.

Who someone is and what they do is all that matters. This is especially true because who we are changes as we grow and as we change our minds. Furthermore, we are never really of one mind about anything. Belief is never the point—actions are. We can be of two minds about biology or God but treat everyone around us with kindness.

Your future depends on many things, but mostly on you.

Life is not a fairground, but a school. -- Franz Bardon

The relationship to one's fellow man is the relationship of prayer, the relationship to oneself is the relationship of striving it is from prayer that one draws the strength for one's striving.

He cites Ibn as-Sîd al-Batalyawsî (d. 521/1127) to the effect that the higher the station is which a person reaches in the world, the less is his knowledge (- ulûm), and whenever he gives up his high station in life, his knowledge widens.

And I begin to learn.