Quotes about Personal Growth

the realization that my life is not the sum of who loved me - but rather the sum of who I have loved.

If you don't deal with the past, the past deals with you.

Anthropos. That's a Greek word. It means to become the best human you can be.

So much had happened since then. So many obstacles had been

Blaming others wouldn't do. Only when I began to see the world's ills mirrored in myself did I begin to find an answer; only as I began to address that uncomfortable word, sin, did I see that I was not being handed a load of needless guilt so much as a useful tool for confronting the negative side of human behavior.

But if I do not accept my responsibility, then I have not changed at all. You are right when you say I have shown my true face to the world. Now I must accept the consequences of a life built on truth, and embrace the woman I have become.

given a new name, chosen by the nuns, a more

You must do the thing you think you cannot do. —Eleanor Roosevelt humanitarian

You're cold, Virginia. How have you let yourself become so cold?

When people hurt you over and over, think of them like sandpaper. They may scratch and hurt you a bit, but in the end, you end up polished and they end up useless. - Chris Colfer

When people hurt you over and over, think of them like sandpaper. They may scratch and hurt you a bit, but in the end, you end up polished and they end up useless.

When people hurt you over and over, think of them like sandpaper. They may scratch and hurt you a bit, but in the end, you end up polished and they end up useless. - Chris Colfer Talent

If you don't change the road you're travelling on, you'll probably end up where you're going.'" Mohammed

Make people better at something they want to be better at.

Many of us commit the error of following the rules of our cultural community, which prevents us from stepping out of our caves and sharing our gifts in the world.

Even if your children ever come home, they really aren't yours anymore." -Leia Organa Solo

Be secure enough in yourself to base success on personal growth.

Next, write down five things that you're really good at. Then just try to match them up!

That's the thing about having a baby: they are a part of you that is outside of you, so you can love them in the way you can't stand to love yourself.

What they don't understand is that it condition is a symptom of me. That I am a stone buried deep in the ground, something that will never grow, no matter how good the dirt.

Now I see that the journey was never meant to lead to some new and improved version of me; that it has always been about coming home to who I already am.

If some essential part of me was already disappearing as my children moved into increasingly wider orbits, well then, I wanted to rech out and claim something else to take its place.

A path is something you create as you walk it. The ground you've trodden hardens, and that's what forms your path. You're the only one who can create your own path. Walk on your own. If you haven't given up yet, that is. -Cross Marian

I come from a very non-accepting family, but I'm very accepting.