Quotes about Personal Growth

Anyone who has grown spiritually, mentally or physically knows that growth is not found in comfort. My

High school basically continued with bouts of her getting drunk and then stopping for a day. There was not one major moment or birthday celebration during which she could remain sober. I learned how to plan my joy. I would front-load my birthdays with breakfast activities or plan to be with her for only the beginning of an event. Then I would go off to be with friends and know that that would be the last I would see of my mother's real facial expressions.

To develop a self one must exercise choice and learn from the consequences of those choices; if the only thing you are taught is to comply, you have little way of knowing what you like and want.

I learned again and again in my life, until you get your own act together, you're not ready for Big Love. What you're ready for is one of those codependent relationships where you desperately need a partner.

No one is fixed until they make the effort to change.

I've had a weird couple of weeks, you know? I completely know. But I- I mean, I'm not totally happy, but there's no way I'd go back to my old obvious self! I like it here. I like all the... confusion and heartbreak. It wasn't that bad... was it? Scott... yes, it was. But I feel like I've learned some stuff along the way. I know things now.

Whatever it takes for you to find your freedom, that's what you've lived.

The teacher you need is the person you're living with.

To make amends" means to right the perceived wrong. What I call "living amends" is more far-reaching. It applies not only to one particular incident but to all future incidents of that kind.

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Well, sweetheart, it's the last place we look—to ourselves. This is a surgery. We go in and get it all.

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It's every individual's responsibility to find his own peace – you can't expect any sort of retribution, or believe that it will be delivered some day.

I don't like to think of myself as a 'virgin'. I prefer to think of myself as 'sexually incomplete'. You know. Like I haven't finished the course yet.

feelings, no matter how bad, were unlikely to change reality. Meaning, don't just sit there feeling sorry for yourself. Take action, her father would have said.

IMPROVE ONE'S SELF, IMPROVE ONE'S FACE.

If it's sometimes easier to reject strong evidence than to admit that we've been wrong, this is also information about ourselves worth having.

The shaman is not merely a sick man, or a madman; he is a sick man who has healed himself.

Jean Baker Miller pointed out that the so-called need to control and dominate others is psychologically a function, not of a feeling of power, but of a feeling of powerlessness. Distinguishing between power for oneself and power over others, she writes: In a basic sense, the greater the development of each individual the more able, more effective, and less needy of limiting or restricting others she or he will be.

We should not be less than what we are.

But regrets don't help. We have to forget about what we couldn't do and concentrate on what we can.

Life is an education, Drisker. It is learned mostly through what you discover on your own and not through what others tell you.

We begin talking about other things—about our sessions on the practice field and how far Ronden thinks I have progressed, and how far I know I still have to go, and finally about the Seers and how good they have been trying to help us with Harrow.

It was important for a person not to let their body or mind become slow and dull. Oba believed it was important to learn new things. He believed it was important to grow. He thought it was important for a person to use what they had learned. That was how people grew.