Quotes about Personal Growth

Parents can only give good advice or put them on the right paths, but the final forming of a person's character lies in their own hands. —Anne Frank

Change your mind and your life will follow.

You are nothing like Christine!" he said, in my face. "She was a responsibility, a mistake I made when young and foolish, and from whom I came to believe I would never be free!" "Then what am I?" I challenged, staring up into blazing sapphire eyes. "A joy.

It was a fine country, or would be, different from any she had known. But if it was the promised land, it was not because of the trees or climate, but because, just getting here, they'd found something new inside themselves.

Fortunately [psychoanalysis] is not the only way to resolve inner conflicts. Life itself still remains a very effective therapist.

Philosophers of all times have stressed the pivotal significance of being ourselves and the despair attendant on feeling barred from its approximation... "What other significance can our existence have than to be ourselves fully and completely?

The mere fact that he has gone that far indicates that his will to come to grips with himself is strong enough to prevent him from being crushed.

În vremuril noastre, dominate de isteria colectiv? stârnit? de celebritate - ?i de superputerile pe care noi le credem c? le confer? -, uit?m complet c?, zi de zi, fiecare dintre noi trebuie s? se ridice din pat, s? se îmbrace, s? se spele pe din?i ?i s? purcead? la uciderea propriilor s?i mon?trii.

Your life is your practice. Your spiritual practice does not occur someplace other than in your life right now, and your life is nowhere other than where you are. You are looking for answers, insight, and wisdom that you already possess. Live the life in front of you, be the life you are, and see what you find out for yourself.

What we achieve at our best moment doesn't say much about who we are. It all boils down to what we become at our worst moment.

You are what you are. Deal with it or change.

The most critical, defining battles we wage in life, we wage alone. Against ourselves. It

muszáj továbbmenni. Az igazi személyiség fokmérÅ'je az, ahogyan továbbmegy az ember.

Often the right path is the one that may be hardest for you to follow. But the hard path is also the one that will make you grow as a human being.

Sometimes you don't get closure, you just move on.

Write a complaint letter. Then answer it.

Love people for who they are and not for who you want them to be. That's where the disconnection starts.

Examine what you tolerate. What you put up with you end up with. What you allow continues. Reevaluate the costs and your worth.

When I think back to who I was just a few years ago, I realize, proudly, how much my challenges have empowered me to grow.

Been there, done that, bought the T-shirt, thank you very much. Have no interest in a repeat performance." So

We are born to fight the bends and curves of our own rivers, pushing back that which will not give, understanding where we are meant to be only when we let go and let the river take us back tot he place where we began.

I loved education, which is why I spent as little time as possible in school.

In the military I could exercise the power of being automatically respected because of the medals on my chest, not because I had done anything right at the moment to earn that respect. This is pretty nice. It's also a psychological trap that can stop one's growth and allow one to get away with just plain bad behavior.

All life is problem solving