Quotes about Personal Growth

I like to read books and be alone; I'm not social butterfly person. I'm sorry.

I made the apologies that needed to be made, and so I didn't feel that Media Matters was a continuing form of saying I was sorry.

I am sorry for what has happened and I know that I need some help.

I could have given more and I'm sorry about how it all ended, but I still look back on my time in Germany positively.

I met my grandfather just before he died, and it was the first time that I had seen Dad with a relative of his. It was interesting to see my own father as a son and the body language and alteration in attitude that comes with that, and it sort of changed our relationship for the better.

I sort of found King Diamond in second grade, but I didn't become a devoted Satanist until a few years later, but that was very much part of my adolescence as well.

It's a funny thing. You sort of never figure it out with acting. You're always learning.

Once I got my life sorted and started to get healthy, then I was able to focus on writing.

So many men have holes in their souls the shape of their fathers. You can pass that on to your kid, or you can do something about it, and I'm seeing a lot of men doing something about it.

Some lessons take years to learn, with repeated exposure to the same path sometimes shadowed by the inner conscience of own souls. But eventually we learn, and our journey continues in another direction.

This is going to make me sound awful, but I was 18 when I took my first flight because the Prince of Brunei flew Mis-Teeq over to play at his birthday party! I was in business class being fed amazing food. I got over my fear pretty quickly.

I think everybody knows my sound because I'm me, you know? But, on your fourth album, I think you've definitely gotta show growth because I definitely don't plan on being one of those cats that fade off. It's always about growing with me; I grew up over the years.

This may sound funny, but as much as the 'Today' show matured me, it also was something of a cocoon. I'd been happy there. I never went into the boss's office and pounded my fist on the desk, saying, 'Give me more money! Give me a prime-time show!'

It sounds like I work at Hallmark, but every day is a journey and you get better and that's the whole point of life.

I think my mission is to become the greatest human I can. I know that sounds pompous, but what else do we have?

As long as you blame someone or something else - something outside you that's bigger than you are - as the source of your problems, the problems won't get solved.

For a person who grew up in the '30s and '40s in the segregated South, with so many doors closed without explanation to me, libraries and books said, 'Here I am, read me.' Over time I have learned I am at my best around books.

One minute I was a PR intern, the next I was Miss South Africa.

In order to heal, you have to first be broken.

Home is the place that expects the most of you, but still welcomes you at your worst. And she has always been my home, my Merminia.

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The story of getting there is greater than the story of being there. Wherever your there might be.

Sarah Dessen, Lock and Key

I am not interested in whether you've stood with the great. I am interested in whether you've sat broken.