Quotes about Personal Growth

If you do not conquer self, you will be conquered by self

No man is your enemy, no man is your friend, every man is your teacher.

the famous Emil Coué formula, 'Day by day, in every way, I am getting better and better'

If we sow the seeds of hatred and envy and discouragement in others, we, in turn, develop these qualities in ourselves.

Is a little experience too much to pay for learning to know oneself?

Don Juan said that everybody that knew me had an idea about me, and that I kept feeding the idea with everything I did. "Don't you see?" he asked dramatically. "You must renew your personal history by telling your parents, your relatives, and your friends everything you do. On the other hand, if you have no personal history, no explanations are needed; nobody is angry or disillusioned with your acts. And above all no one pins you down with their thoughts.

Remember what I've told you," he said. "Don't count on emotional realizations. Let your assemblage point move first, then years later have the realization.

Every work of art is aggressive, Isabella. And every artist's life is a small war or a large one, beginning with oneself and one's limitations. To achieve anything you must first have ambition and then talent, knowledge, and finally the opportunity.

To write is to rewrite, he kept reminding me. One writes for oneself, and one rewrites for others.

silent defeats taste better

That book taught me that by reading, I could live more intensely. It could give me back the sight I had lost. For that reason alone, a book that didn't matter to anyone changed my life.

How can you be somebody else's savior, when you can't be your own?

Barbies are warm and tan and always the same, thought Janie, but real people are not always the same.

Lord, it's only been six months since the last time I was a total jerk, thought Reeve. Am I going to be a total jerk again?

Every time he calls, I nag him to study." "I hear that boys don't like to be nagged." "Me too, but it's irresistible. You always want to take the boy and mold him into something better.

Healing comes from gathering wisdom from past actions and letting go of the pain that the education cost you.

A common trait shared by people who have healed is that they cease being unreasonable in ways that no longer matter in the greater scheme of life.

The goal of the human experience is to transform ourselves from being who long to attain power in the physical world to beings who are empowered from within.

Those who are in a spiritual crisis, however, have a feeling that something is trying to wake up inside them. They just don't know how to see it.

realize the importance of the words of Polonius, "To thine own self be true." For without personal power, life is a frightening, painful experience.

Because you can make decisions for yourself even if they're wrong. Mistakes can be corrected. Life is too short to have everyone else tell you how to live. Make a few mistakes, and learn from them. At least they'll be real, and you'll be living, not just existing.

Besides, I haven't been

Life is too short to have everyone else tell you how to live. Make a few mistakes, and learn from them. At least they'll be real, and you'll be living, not just existing.

The worst storms were the ones that changed you. The ones you remembered not for how bad they objectively were, but for how much damage they did to your own world. Banners, planted in memory.