Quotes about Personal Growth

A traveller must buy his own experience, and success or failure depends mainly on personal idiosyncrasies.

My attendance in school was 30 per cent. I was always travelling with my parents.

Travelling expands the mind rarely.

I've learned a lot in life, travelling, living abroad, just in the school of life.

I'd like to go to university. I'd like to do a bit of travelling.

I think I got into travelling because it was so not in my blood, so against my tendency to just stay put because my dad just hated going on holidays, because, as I've said in many essays, the thing that he hated more than anything else in life was spending money. And as soon as you leave your home, you're spending money.

I learnt to manage my own money, a quality which I am working on since a long while now. I invest most of my money in myself either in learning and/or travelling.

My travels led me to where I am today. Sometimes these steps have felt painful, difficult, but led me to greater happiness and opportunites.

My wife... now travels with me everywhere - not because she nearly lost me, but because my kids are all grown up and my son is now a very successful actor, Rafe Spall.

Life is just a journey and how you traverse it is what matters.

I never believe I tread the wrong path by becoming a disciple of Acharya Rajneesh. During the restless period of my life in the late '70s, I found solace in his teachings. However later Vijay Anandsaab helped me to grow out of the influence of Acharya Rajneesh.

Much prior to my marriage, I loved donning homely-girl roles and perhaps now I can tread taking up best of that sort.

At the age of 21, I had never even stepped on a treadmill.

Some people might be groomed for success; I've just always thought I've got a hell of a lot of things to learn and places to go. Creatively, I couldn't stay on the same treadmill. I chose to be off-centre and do collaborative work.

Right next to my bedroom, Dad made a chin-up bar with a rowing machine and a treadmill. From there, as years went by, we were able to get a bit of funding, and Dad got all these people involved and built a gym at home.

If I stay in Roma, I can still improve. If I go back to Arsenal, I will treasure my experience in Italy.

As my father started ascending in the business, people around me started to treat me different. Our lives changed. So that anxiety, that sort of resentment, I just funneled it through football.

I learned that it's important to treat yourself like a work in progress, to think about how you can improve, to listen to feedback.

A lot of people are afraid to face themselves, especially when something goes wrong. But that's important, because if something happens within a relationship, it could be how you're allowing someone else to treat you.

Nothing in your past is in your present making you do anything you don't choose to do. You are not your past history! You are not your past failures! You are not how others have at one time treated you! You are only who you are and what you do now in this moment.

The moment I started treating my social anxiety disorder, I started feeling better.

My mother was very hard on me when I was a child. I think she was raising me how the world was treating her.

A disease and its treatment can be a series of humiliations, a chisel for humility.

If I wrote a memoir, it would be like 'A Tree Grows in Brooklyn.'