Quotes about Personal Growth

Many people don't find their Element because they don't have the encouragement or the confidence to step outside their established circle of relationships

no aceptas que piensas el mundo de muchas maneras diferentes, estarás limitando inexorablemente tus posibilidades de encontrar a la persona que se supone que tienes que ser. Una

I don't believe you have to be better than everybody else. I believe you have to be better than you ever thought you could be.

Education is not a product but a relationship and a process; a relationship between student and lecturer, and process by which knowledge transforms the individual.

I renounced what I considered to be my Christian faith at around age seventeen, not without fear and trembling. I found the idea of using God as a crutch totally distasteful. I preferred to be on my own. In hindsight I now see that my apparent abandonment of "faith" has actually paved the way for real faith. Sometimes, it is necessary to tear down the old so that the new can be built.

Seeking new levels of technical mastery should be a life long pursuit - not because you want to impress, but to facilitate any direction the great spirit inside you wants to go.

I enjoy the element of pushing yourself, learning something new, whether it's a dance step, a scene, an emotion.

No matter the circumstance you can always improve. You can always start improving with yourself. You can always start improving today.

And you know what, it's your own twin self. When you're ready, jump into that self with the attitude you admire.

I don't like to think of myself as a 'virgin'. I prefer to think of myself as 'sexually incomplete'. You know. Like I haven't finished the course yet.

There's this trope that repeats itself in the books you and I read to save our lives: that if where you grew up is killing you, you can leave and make a chosen, identity-based fam that takes up where your bio-fam left off.

Our parents, our children, our spouses, and our friends will continue to press every button we have, until we realize what it is that we don't want to know about ourselves, yet. They will point us to our freedom every time.

all the advice you ever gave your partner is for you to hear

Peace doesn't require two people; it requires only one. It has to be you. The problem begins and ends there.

I am my own biggest critic. Before anyone else has criticized me, I have already criticized myself. But for the rest of my life, I am going to be with me and I don't want to spend my life with someone who is always critical. So I am going to stop being my own critic. It's high time that I accept all the great things about me.

Thirty was so strange for me. I've really had to come to terms with the fact that I am now a walking and talking adult.

The aim of the college, for the individual student, is to eliminate the need in his life for the college the task is to help him become a self-educating man.

It came to me that I hadn't known I had been being less than I could have been until then, when I saw there was so much more of the world for me to be myself

If you sum up what people tell you about their experiences [on the path of individuation], you can formulate it this way: They came to themselves, they could accept themselves, they were able to become reconciled to themselves, and thus were reconciled to adverse circumstances and events.

Nobody can fall so low unless he has a great depth. If such a thing can happen to a man, it challenges his best and highest on the other side; that is to say, this depth corresponds to a potential height, and the blackest darkness to a hidden light.

But, if you have nothing at all to create, then perhaps you create yourself.

The most intense conflicts, if overcome, leave behind a sense of security and calm that is not easily disturbed. It is just these intense conflicts and their conflagration which are needed to produce valuable and lasting results.

But no matter how much parents and grandparents may have sinned against the child, the man who is really adult will accept these sins as his own condition which has to be reckoned with. Only a fool is interested in other people's guilt, since he cannot alter it. The wise man learns only from his own guilt. He will ask himself: Who am I that all this should happen to me? To find the answer to this fateful question he will look into his own heart.

at this moment I came upon myself. Previously I had existed, too, but everything had merely happened to me. Now I happened to myself. Now I knew: I am myself now, now I exist. Previously I had been willed to do this and that; now I willed.