Quotes about Personal Growth

Looking back makes you competitive. And, age is not a competitive issue

we embrace our scars more than our healing...We can recall the exact day we got hurt, but who remembers the day the wound was gone?

I'm better than I'm gonna be tom-orrrrr-ow…

As long as there is happiness, there will be sadness. As long as there is fortune, there will be misfortune. "…What's real is something that not even the strength of the Goddess can change. The only one who can change it is me. If I don't change my destiny, if I don't cut through the obstacles in my path, then no matter where I go, I'll always be standing in the same place, doing the same thing over and over again, for the rest of my life.

Your adventure is your own. No one may ever take it from you.

I'm more unsettled than nervous. It's like I'm an oyster. I've had this sharp speck inside me for a long time, and I've been trying to make it more comfortable, so slowly I've turned it into a pearl.

But even talented people, sooner or later, cracked their heads against their own personal ceilings.

A garden is not a place. It's a journey.

As you grow, you learn more. If you stayed as ignorant as you were at twenty-two, you'd always be 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 the positive that you understand you're going to die, and that you live a better life because of it.

For those of us who are no longer in school, we observed, it is necessary, if we want to go on learning and discovering, to know how to make books teach us well. In that situation, if we want to go on learning, then we must know how to learn from books, which are absent teachers.

if we lack resources within ourselves, we cease to grow intellectually, morally, and spiritually. And when we cease to grow, we begin to die.

success is not a comparison of what we have done with what others have done.

A person's readiness to date is largely a matter of maturity and environment.

if you are looking someone will change your life, listen no one come and change your life.

When u are small, u can choose which way to grow. If you are kind and decent, you grow into a kind and decent man. And if you are like El Patron . . . Just think about it." – Tam Lin

When you're small, you can choose which way to grow. If you're kind and decent, you grow into a kind and decent man. The idea that if you were mean, you might stay mean forever had never occurred to him.

Once, he'd been satisfied by the music alone. Now he had learned about friendship...

character with both progressive motivation and internal changes, congratulations.

Actually, therapy isn't just about feeling better - it's about getting better, which usually involves feeling worse for a while.

But here's the deal: when we face the worst that's in us, somehow we become better than we are - better than we ever thought we could be.

Even though my former assistant, Eileen, had turned out to be a soul-sucking demon, she had helped me improve my knitting.

I couldn't help knowing she would have told me off for giving him the least encouragement, in the strongest terms possible for her, and also that she'd be absolutely right: I hadn't any business agreeing to be with someone who told me in all sincerity that I was his only hope of happiness in the world, at least not until he'd sorted his own head out and diversified.

But I had not known that I was strong enough to do any of those things until they were over and I had done them. I had to do the work first, not knowing

Maybe it's our duty to be shaped a hundred times by the same stories. We think we're telling them but really they're keeping us alive