Quotes about Personal Growth

It's so important to step outside your comfort zone because that's usually when you learn best. I think it's really important that you do things like that for yourself – no adult with you, just you and your own self-belief. Sadly, I think many parents would be too afraid to let their children make a journey like that these days. Having

I lived at home till I was 29.

Every person you encounter, whom you interact with, is there to teach you something. Sometimes it may be years before you realize what each had to show you.

I'm too busy for relationships.

No child, through her own will, can pull a mother out of her suffering, and as an adult, I have been very busy.

I used to get butterflies when I'd see big dudes. I don't get butterflies no more.

By the time I'm 90, I hope to have it together.

I didn't actually get along with my dad when I was growing up, so by the time I was in my 20s, I didn't think I was going to be a writer.

Most writers, by the time they're 60, must have revisited their childhood a dozen times.

I couldn't play ball. I couldn't dance. Luckily, the girls didn't want me. Not much I could do about that. So I started to draw and to write. By the time I got to where I was attracting girls, I was already into work, and it was more important to me.

By the time I got to George Washington University, I had been a straight-A student in high school.

By the time I was, you know, 16 years old, I had done a lot of growing up.

I'm not saying I'm proud of the fact I had a long affair with a married man, but it did help my business. By the time I married and had children I had the business under my belt.

I've baked more cakes since I've been on 'Bake Off' than I have in my life.

Life at home wasn't very good and I had really left by the time I was 16 and didn't go back until after Cambridge when I went to look after my mother when she was dying.

When my first album came out, it wasn't Bollywood.

I don't like talking about which bits I like or don't like about my body. Everybody has something they're not happy with, and my only advice would be, 'Do something about it - exercise or eat less, but don't do nothing!' Find ways to enhance the good bits and camouflage the bad bits.

I had played on the police athletic league, but my father had a unique thing, he always said, 'Before you start going to basketball camp and doing all the things, you should learn about yourself first before somebody else starts telling you how to play.'

Every fight, every camp I learn about myself and I get better. But every fight I get better.

I go to camp every summer for seven weeks and it's like sleepaway camp.

When I have basketball camps and I tell kids my story, they're like, 'You played in Maine? In Israel? You did this and that?' I experienced a lot, and I feel like it made me not only the person I am today, but the basketball player I am.

It might be hard to believe, but as difficult as cancer was, in some ways it was good for me.

I want to be all that I am capable of becoming.

To become what we are capable of becoming is the only end in life.