Quotes about Personal Growth

Because in some men, it is in them to give up everything personal at some time, before it ferments and poisons - throw it to some human being or some human idea.

Children need close friends to help them grow up, to discover things about themselves and about life. They also need close friends to keep them sane

Things won't change unless you change you.

People who constantly looked over their shoulders bumped into things. Paths are so much clearer when people stop looking at what everyone else is doing and instead concentrate on themselves.

THERE'S THE PERSON you think you should be and there's the person you really are. I'm not sure who I should be, but I now know who I am. And that, I say, is the perfect place to start again.

Pero la mayoría de las veces, las decisiones fáciles son las erróneas y e ocasiones sentimos que vamos hacia atrás cuando en realidad estamos avanzando.

So I'm beginning to think that when I'm fifty, sixty, seventy, eighty, ninety years old I still won't be any closer to being wise and knowledgeable. Perhaps people on their deathbeds, who have had long, long lives, seen it all, travelled the world, have had kids, been through their own personal traumas, beaten their demons and learned the harsh lessons of life will be thinking : God, people in heaven must really know it all.

I'm in competition with myself. Always have been. It's up to me to be as good as I can be.

I've come a long way. But I've a distance to go. My dream? My dream is to soar happily into my future.

This is a story about people who find out who they are. About people who are unraveled and whose cores are revealed to all who count. And those who count are finally revealed to them. Just in time.

into things. Paths are so much clearer when people stop looking at what everyone else is doing and instead concentrate on themselves.

Benjamin je promatrao Elizabeth kako hoda. Nije ju poznavao onoliko dobro koliko je htio, ali imao je dojam da mu je dopustila da u?e u njezin život više nego ostalima. I on je u?inio isto. Razgovarali su dovoljno puta da vidi koliko su sli?ni. Gledao ju je kako se razvija i mijenja i sad se napokon smirila. Zurio je u krajolik kojem se Elizabeth tako dugo divila i prvi put u godinu dana koliko je tu, otvorio je o?i i uistinu ga doživio.

He's losing himself, he doesn't like what he's becoming. It's not him. Not who he wants to be.

What has she done, what has she done? She's cut herself off from people she truly needs. Yet despite the fear of what she's done, she knows it's the right thing. The atmosphere in the apartment was toxic. She had to get away from them, and wasn't it him who was slowly cutting himself off from her?

He didn't know that he couldn't tell life when he was ready to learn, but that life would teach him when it was good and ready.

Paths are so much clearer when people stop looking at what everyone else is doing and instead concentrate on themselves ~Gabe

Before, singing was my life, my vocal chords used to lead the way. Now, I'm in-charge.

Se întâmpla ca o femeie s? întâlneasc? o epav? ÅŸi s? decid? s? fac? din ea un b?rbat s?n?tos. Uneori, reuÅŸeÅŸte. Se întâmpl? ca o femeie s? întâlneasc? un b?rbat s?n?tos ÅŸi s? decid? s? fac? din el o epav?. Chestia asta îi reuÅŸeÅŸte întotdeauna.

people don't change, they just have momentary steps outside of their true character

A person must know who he is. A person must understand himself, improve himself, learn his weaknesses in order to overcome them. It is hard for a person to understand his own weaknesses.

We become like dead branches and last year's leaves and what the hell good are we for ourselves and the world in a mental ghetto.

Basically it's none of our business how somebody manages to grow, if only he does grow, if only we're on the trail of the law of our own growth.

He should have had more faith in himself rather than give in to his weaker qualities, in particular his overeagerness to please and aversion to conflict and a lifelong infatuation with hope, which had him dreaming more than doing

I felt like a car that had only been operated by one driver… a car its new prospective buyer was determined to take to the Daytona 500.