Quotes about Personal Growth

Personal growth will cause a ripple effect as the growth in consciousness of enough people, one by one, can create general change, and lasting social improvements.

When we can trust that it's we who think, feel, and act rather than the ghosts of our parents or well-trained robots, we learn that we can also love, be in relationships, and be in the world without losing ourselves.

how would you account for the mail Sammy drew from all over the country? From insurance companies in Hartford, from chain stores in the South, from mail-order houses in the Middle West, people were writing that I could not have written Sammy without personal knowledge of their own mail-room boy who had run over their backs to become office manager, and in some cases company president.

To conquer oneself is a greater task than conquering others.

You cannot travel the path until you have become the path itself

It is easy to keep things at a distance; it is hard to be naturally beyond them.

She had learned from her encounter with Mike Eden that there really was more than one man in the world-the piece of knowledge that more than anything else divides women from girls.

If we interrupt the reinventing process prematurely, as Susan nearly did, we jeopardize our ability to fully internalize this new self-definition. Often it isn't until we are fairly far along in the reinventing process that we realize we must also reassess the foundations of our working identity.

Want a partner who can make you feel secure and loved, so you can reach your full potential. Someone who can inspire you and encourage you to try again if things don't work out. Someone who loves you for who you are, not who you might turn into, or who you once were.

We don't have to allow stereotypical notions or past experiences to immediately alter our personal future.

You're born and things stick to you. Some fall off, but most you carry around for the rest of your life. Let me be old and foolish when I grow up.

Why did she have to happen? Just when I was doing so good without her.

No interesa lo que me pasó, sino las cicatrices que me marcan y distinguen.

Our destination is the same in the end, but our journey - part chosen, part determined - is different for us all, and changes even as we live and grow.

It was just a stage I was going through.

I'm a slow learner. It's true. But I learn , I can't deny it.

Finally, you had to measure yourself by other people - there really was nothing else. every now and then, quite unintentionally, someone taught you something about yourself.

Every now and then, quite unintentionally, someone taught you something about yourself.

He was making one of the advances typical of early adulthood: the discovery that there were new values by which he preferred to be judged.

The work we have to do is with ourselves ,If we're ever going to be at peace with each other.

I experienced a sudden ache -- part desolation, part panic -- to observe the speed with which this mate, this familiar, was transforming herself into a separate person.

My own small discovery has been that this change is possible, it is within our power. Without a revolution of the inner life, however slow, all our big designs are worthless. The work we have to do is with ourselves if we're going to be at peace with each other, I'm not saying it'll happen. There's a good chance it won't. I'm saying it's our only chance.

He had never learned anything new at a meeting.

Two years? That's entirely too long. If you want, we can take care of that. After two years it's pure therapy.