Quotes about Personal Growth

Es sólo un día, un periodo de veinticuatro horas para superarte a ti mismo -Adam

Of all the things and people she missed lately, it was odd to find herself at the top of the list.

we stopped talking for a while as Adam strummed an unfamiliar melody. I asked him what he was playing. "I'm calling it 'The Girlfriend's-Going-to-Juilliard-Leaving-My-Punk-Heart-in-Shreds Blues,'" he said,

Traveling's not something you're good at. It's something you do. Like breathing.

What if Shakespeare had it wrong? What if Shakespeare—and Hamlet—were asking the wrong question? What if the real question is not whether to be, but how to be?

I let the memories flood me as I fill one page. Then another. And then I'm not even writing about him anymore. I'm writing about me.

Sometimes you escape one prison only to find you've built yourself a different one

The Phoenix Project is ultimately a book about transformation, and so it is incredibly gratifying to see it being used as an instrument to create transformations in real life as well.

You're not going to do this forever. There's a finite amount of time you're going to be doing this. Do this really, really well. And if you do this really, really well, everybody will see that, and they'll move you onto the next thing. And you do that well, and then you'll move.

We think that we know a man or a woman, when so much of what we know is actually that man's or that woman's situation, his or her place on the board of life. Move the pawn to the last row and see her rise in armor, sword in hand.

What you pay attention to grows. Pay attention to your loveliness, your magnificent self. Begin now.

Mother, please, hear me out. If there's something I've learned over the last few years, it's that everything people do is important. I happen to have chosen this particular thing to do with my life, and I was lucky enough to have the choice.

Family is what it can be, not what it should be.

end) CLAUDIA There are definitely a lot of very important lessons to be learned from The War. But I can't think of what they are right now, and I have to go meet Sophie and Carmen at Starbucks in ten minutes to strategize the best way to handle the Jens situation.

Finally coming to terms with Fathers Day. I blow as a Dad. I get it. No, I'm not an evil, abusive Father, it's just that while all my intentions and thoughts have been out of love for my kids, my actions and behaviour never measured up.

Right now don't be overwhelmed or intimidated by how much other people may seem to be doing. They haven't lived your life. The only person you can change is you, and the only person who can change you, is you.

Baseball players quit playing and they take up golf. Basketball players quit, take up golf. Football players quit, take up golf. What are we supposed to take up when we quit?

The best reformers the world has ever seen are those who commence on themselves.

c. "So, hunny, don't waste your time trying to label or define me…'cause I'm not what I was ten years ago or ten minutes ago. I'm all of that and then some. And whereas I can't live inside yesterday's pain, I can't live without it.

I wasn't even that lovable to begin with. I was a selfish ass, but somehow something I did made this man love me, deeply and without reservations. He knew things about me that I would die to keep secret. I trusted him more than I trusted anyone in my life. I mattered to him. He was suffering and I wanted it to stop. I wanted to see him happy. I loved him so much.

True beauty is in how that person makes you feel. When a man truly loves you, the longer you are together, the more beautiful you will be to him. When he looks at you and you look at him, you won't just see the surface. You will see everything you shared, everything you've been through, and every happy moment you hope for." Her

Say 'pop.' " "Pop?" "That was the sound of me pulling your head out of your ass."

It's like sometimes fucked up shit happens but it makes you who you are. You can't change it.

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