Quotes about Personal Growth

There is something beyond limits, in every relationship.

It's taken years, but part of my own personal growth has involved deciding that I can learn something from even the most annoying person.

It is not about what you lose when it is over. Far more, it is about what you gain during the journey!

The goal of life is to end up wiser. But more importantly, I think it should be to end up kinder, both to yourself and everyone around you (unless, of course, their surname happens to be Johnson).

I thought to myself that there really were so many simple ways we could make ourselves look less like idiots.

It's very simple. As you grow, you learn more. If you stayed at twenty-two, you'd always be as ignorant as you were at twenty-two. Aging is not just decay, you know. It's growth. It's more than the negative that you're going to die, it's also the positive that you understand you're going to die, and that you live a better life because of it.

The pain you go through in life doesn't really touch you . . . not the real you. . . . You are so much lighter than you think.

It's very simple. As you grow, you learn more. If you stayed twenty-two, you'd always be as ignorant as you were at twenty-two. Aging is not just decay, you know. It's growth. It's more than the negative that you're going to die, it's also the positive that you understand you're going to die, and that you live a better life because of it.

Everyone joins a band in this life. One way or another, the band breaks up.

It's very simple. As you grow, you learn more.

She was broken open. But broken open is still open.

There are songs that you play that you have to restart, and songs that you play that you never get right. But when a song is complete, there is no more you can do.

Parents rarely let go of their children, so children let go of them. They move on. They move away. The moments that used to define them—a mother's approval, a father's nod—are covered by moments of their own accomplishments.

you must understand why you felt what you did, and why you no longer need to feel it

The eighties happened. The nineties happened. Death and sickness and getting fat and going bald happened. I traded lots of dreams for a bigger paycheck, and I never even realized I was doing it.

An education is everything, Charley. An education is how you'll make something of yourself.

America had become a Persian bazaar of self-help. But there still seemed to be no clear answers.

I look back sometimes at the person I was before I rediscovered my old professor. I want to talk to that person. I want to tell him what to look out for, what mistakes to avoid. I want to tell him to be more open, to ignore the lure of advertised values, to pay attention when your loved ones are speaking, as if it were the last time you might hear them.

Are you trying to be as human as you can be?

It's very simple. As you grow, you learn more. IF you stayed at twenty-two, you'd always be as ignorant as you were at twenty-two. Aging is not just decay, you know. It's growth. It's more then the negative that you're going to die, it's also the positive that you understand your going to die, and that you live a better life because of it.

As you grow, you learn more. If you stayed at twenty-two, you'd always be as ignorant as you were at twenty-twp. Aging is not just decay, you know. It's growth.

It's very simple. As you grow, you learn more. If you stayed at 22, you'd always be as ignorant as you were at 22. Aging is not just decay, you know. It's growth. It's more than the negative that you're going to die, it's also the positive that you understand you're going to die, and that you live a better life because of it.

I'm not as good as I was yesterday, buuuut… I'm better than I'm gonna be tom-orrrrr-ow…

Aging is not just decay. It's growth. As you grow, you learn more.