Quotes about Personal Growth

If it doesn't challenge you, it doesn't change you.

The work involved in exploring your own nature, identifying weaknesses in your character, and then working to overcome them can be difficult and even painful. But as with all transformative change, the outcomes can more than compensate for the work of achieving them. You may be the only person in your life who is unaware of the shortcomings in your character.

Knowing that we can be loved exactly as we are gives us all the best opportunity for growing into the healthiest of people.

It's not easy to keep trying, But it's one good way to grow. It's not easy to keep learning, But I know that this is so: When you've tried and learned You're bigger than you were a day ago. It's not easy to keep trying, But it's one way to grow.

It's true that we take a great deal of our own upbringing on into our adult lives and our lives as parents; but it's true, too, that we can change some of the things that we would like to change. It can be hard, but it can be done.

Discovering the truth about ourselves is a lifetime's work, but it's worth the effort.

At the center of the Universe is a loving heart that continues to beat and that wants the best for every person. Anything that we can do to help foster the intellect and spirit and emotional growth of our fellow human beings, that is our job. Those of us who have this particular vision must continue against all odds. Life is for service.

Crying means you have succeeded to open up beyond your mental."

Listening now, it occured to me that I hadn't come very far over the yars -- no farther really than from one "gang bang" to another, save that I had learned, as B. had yet to learn, that tomorrow the pain would be even greater.

It's not a persons mistakes which define them - it's the way they make amends.

The doer alone learneth.

To really know for absolute certain that you could never blame anyone else for anything is difficult.

If we think that time passes by us while we somehow remain the same, that's not real learning. Master

Life became easier once I deleted some negative people.

Stop sleeping on yourself.

Many lessons must be lived to be understood. You'll find that it doesn't so much matter what happens as you live—what gives it all purpose and meaning is who you become.

There has to be a balance, Vin," Elend said. "Somehow, we'll find it. The balance between whom we wish to be and whom we need to be." He sighed. "But for now," he said, nodding to the side, "we simply have to be satisfied with who we are.

I was thinking that work is like fertilizer in that I'm glad it exists; I just don't ever want to get stuck in it.

The most important words a man can say are, "I will do better.

If I pretend … If I pretend I didn't do those things, it means that I can't have grown to become someone else.

It is not the destination that matters, but how one arrives there.

A man can be reforged.

We are not creatures of destinations. It is the journey that shapes us. Our callused feet, our backs strong from carrying the weight of our travels, our eyes open with the fresh delight of experiences lived.

You are inexperienced. So was I, once. So is every man. The measure of a person is not how much they have lived. It is not how easily they jump at a noise or how quick they are to show emotion. It's in how they make use of what life has shown them.