Quotes about Personal Growth

Everything that irritates us about others can lead us to an understanding of ourselves.

The greatest and most important problems of life are all in a certain sense insoluble. They can never be solved, but only outgrown.

Find out what a person fears most and that is where he will develop next.

Our biggest problems cannot be resolved. They must be outgrown.

The unconscious always tries to produce an impossible situation in order to force the individual to bring out his very best. Otherwise one stops short of one's best, one is not complete, one does not realize oneself. What is needed is an impossible situation where one has to renounce one's own will and one's own wit and do nothing but wait and trust to the impersonal power of growth and development.

There is only one way and that is your way. There is only one salvation and that is your salvation...What is to come will be created in you and from you. Hence look into yourself. Do not compare. Do not measure. No other way is like yours...You must fulfill the way that is in you.

We don't so much solve our problems as we outgrow them.

Put down the flashlight, pick up the mirror.

A close relationship is a powerful light force, and like any strong light it casts a large shadow. When you stand in the light of a close relationship, you must learn to deal with the shadow.

Each of us has an inner thermostat setting that determines how much love, success, and creativity we allow ourselves to enjoy. When we exceed our inner thermostat setting, we will often do something to sabotage ourselves, causing us to drop back into the old, familiar zone where we feel secure.

Unfortunately, our thermostat setting usually gets programmed in early childhood, before we can think for ourselves. Once programmed, our Upper Limit thermostat setting holds us back from enjoying all the love, financial abundance, and creativity that's rightfully ours. It keeps us in our Zone of Competence or at best our Zone of Excellence. It prevents us from living in the ultimate destination of the journey—our Zone of Genius.

The problem is that a deep, sacred part of you will wither and die if you stay inside your Zone of Excellence

I don't need any outside enemies. I have a perfectly good one residing right between my ears.

commit to discovering my Upper Limit behaviors, and to having a good time while I'm learning about them.

All other worry is just Upper Limit noise, designed by our unconscious to keep us safely within our Zone of Excellence or Zone of Competence.

For a long time, I just complained that "women are all the same." After I saw the same patterns in half a dozen different relationships, I finally woke up and realized it was I who was "all the same." I realized I was committed to getting involved with women who were distant and who would eventually abandon me. Seeing that I created my painful dramas out of my unconscious commitments was a big wake-up moment for me.

Say this sentence in your mind as often as you like. It expresses the attitude I'd like you to embody: I commit to discovering my Upper Limit behaviors, and to having a good time while I'm learning about them. You can learn a lot more with a spirit of wonder and enjoyment than you can with an attitude of criticism.

Adult life is a process of becoming a guardian angel to ourselves. We have to learn how to nurture ourselves and how to gather the kind of people around us that can nurture us in the ways we like.

The comfort zone is no place for a person like Maynard Webb, and I hope not for you, either. Your true home, and Maynard's, is in the Zone of Genius. It's the only place where we can fully celebrate and express the gifts we've been given.

Group nudity could also be personally beneficial, according to psychologist Abraham M. Maslow, who believed that nudist camps or parks might be places where people can emerge from hiding behind their clothes and armor, and become more self-accepting, revealing, and honest.

And something tells me if it matters, maybe it shouldn't be easy.

Gayle Forman

Scars are just tattoos with better stories." Again,

And just in general, I'm better. Better than I've been since Bram died, and in some ways better than I was even before that. No, Lulu didn't break my hear. But I'm beginning to wonder if in some roundabout way, she fixed it.