Quotes about Personal Growth

It feels like I'm starting to come into my own in terms of where I want to go artistically, toward more complicated, interesting characters.

See, the same old Ella still lives." He grins... "She just needed a little push out."... "No, she doesn't. She's gone forever." "Try all you want, but I'm bringing her back.

There's so many people that I feel like as soon as that happens, they can really be and focus on what they want to do.

[T]here is one and only one way to possess that in which we are defective, therefore that which we need, therefore that which we want. Become it.

If you treat men the way they are you never improve them. If you treat them the way you want them to be, you do.

If there is confusion in your head and in your heart, what more do you want! A man who no longer loves and no longer errs should have himself buried straight away.

You can change your life if you really want to. You can improve it, make it better. And it all starts with changing the way you think.

I think there are certain subjects I don't want to tackle, that I don't think I could do a good job with. I don't think I'd be good with... broad comedy? I don't know. Maybe I would.

I kept waiting for that loneliness and nervousness to make me want to go back. But it never did.

As a reader, I don't feel a story has an obligation to make me happy. I want stories to show me a bigger world than the one I know.

I had a lot of maturing I had to go through. I consider myself a smart individual in seeing that this is not the road I want to take.

At 50, you probably get muddled? I'm the same, that's how I know? If you ever get lost, don't worry? Just change where you want to go

For a long time I didn't want to do a solo thing, but there comes a point where everyone else is going outside of The Strokes and The Strokes filtering process.

The study of the traditions doesn't necessarily make you want to convert to another tradition, but it helps you to see your own differently and expands your outlook.

One of the reasons I've never done intensive psychotherapy or any of that stuff is that if there's anything in me that needs fixing, I want to know that I can rely on my own intuition to fix it.

Each time I seem to go through one of life's huge things, I want to play music.

I'm living for myself, everything I do is to achieve my goals, so I'd love to stop caring so much about what I want by then and maybe focus on a bigger picture.

Although, people make mistakes in their lives, and you could say that the mistakes make us who we are, by how we respond to them. I just don't want to play boring good guys.

I know I'm happy and can't wait to see where my career will go next. This isn't the end for any of us. I can understand why they are upset but I want them to move forward and look for the future.

I am accomplishing so much on a personal level now, breaking down boundaries and growing in to the person I want to be. Right now I am the change I want to see it the world - that makes me happy!

I'm beginning to see that just knowing the piece is not enough. Having a clear technique is not enough. Having a broad repertory is not enough. I want desperately to get past all those things.

I am my parents' daughter, and I always want to be. But I first wanted to make sure that I was standing on my own two feet.

We'll all grow up someday, Meg, we might as well know what we want. ~Amy March~

What annoys us most in other people is oftentimes the same area God wants us to grow in ourselves.