Quotes about Personal Growth

It now seems obvious that the way we're raised has a major impact on what kind of person we turn out to be, but so does who we love.

I think life is one long introductory course in tolerance, but in order for a woman to get her Ph.D., she's gotta pass Men 101.

If you don't turn your life into a story, you just become a part of someone else's story.

It's vital to remember who you really are. It's very important. It isn't a good idea to rely on other people or things to do it for you, you see. They always get it wrong.

After all, when you seek advice from someone it's certainly not because you want them to give it. You just want them to be there while you talk to yourself.

Young man, the games we play are lessons we learn. The assumptions we make, things we ignore, and things we change make us what we become.

First you get the test, and then afterwards you spend years findin' out how you passed it.

Everybody has somebody. It could be a friend, a lover, a spouse, a writing partner, or even That One Person You See At The Coffee Shop each day. Sometimes they exist to comfort you. Sometimes they exist to drive you absolutely mad. Be open to either as a form of self-improvement.

He got down easily by dropping uncontrollably from branch to branch until he landed on his head in a pile of pine needles, where he lay gasping for breath and wishing he'd been a better person.

When I said, "I am my mother, but I'm not," I was saying my path would be my own.

But harboring regrets is making love to the past, and there is no movement here.

Then she walked out of his church, and back into her own world.

Do not try to force yourself back into this old life. It is like trying to fit into a pair of old trousers once you have grown taller. It no longer suits you. It never will again. It is best to admit this, lest you force the fit and look ridiculous. Better for the pants, better for you, better for all who would see you wear them.

The wise man, by vigor, mindfulness, restraint, and self-control, creates for himself an island which no flood can submerge.

Developing an outward mindset is a matter of learning to see beyond ourselves. Our hope for you, the reader, is that this book will make such mindset change completely tangible to you and that you will achieve the results at work and at home that only an outward mindset can bring.

Remember, the principle to apply is, as far as I am concerned, the problem is me. I am the place to start. Others' responses will depend mostly on what they see in me. The most important move is for me to make the most important move.

you carry in yourself all the obstacles necessary to make your realization perfect. Always you will see that within you the shadow and the light are equal: you have an ability, you also have the negation of this ability. But, if you discover a very black hole, a thick shadow, be sure that somewhere in you there is a great light. It is up to you to know how to use the one to realize the other.

I learn by going where I have to go.

Withough suffering you cannot grow

Ending our consumption of violent images and toxic communication gives us the chance to transform the violence and suffering in us.

We have come a long way to find ourselves.

I don't want people following Jon Kabat-Zinn. I want them following themselves.

I don't see a big difference in Jordan Pickford from the first day I started working with him. I see the same humble guy every day, open to listening and to learning.

I write in a journal first, briefly. Then read something I've read many times before, for about half an hour, then rework what I wrote the day before.