Quotes about Personal Growth

Abraham Maslow, on the other hand, identified a minority of self-actualized individuals who did not act simply out of conformity to society but chose their own path and lived to fulfill their potential. This type of person was as representative of human nature as any mindless conformist.

Broken and troubled characters must travel to new worlds to heal and overcome. Venture to the underworld and the subconscious where truths are met.

I'm just saying people don't always make the right choices in life. That doesn't mean they have to be stuck with them.

When they tell you to grow up, they mean stop growing.

Life is like a stew, you have to stir it frequently, or all the scum rises to the top.

The illusion of the seventh veil was the illusion that you could get somebody else to do it for you. To think for you. To hang on your cross. The priest, the rabbi, the imam, the swami, the philosophical novelist were traffic cops, at best. They might direct you through a busy intersection, but they wouldn't follow you home and park your car.

we admit that while a partner can add sweet dimensions to our lives, we, each of us, are responsible for our own fulfillment. Nobody else can provide it for us, and to believe otherwise is to delude ourselves dangerously and to program for eventual failure every relationship we enter.

What limits people is lack of character. What limits people is that they don't have the fucking nerve or imagination to star in their own movie, let alone direct it.

You've remained on the battleground, center stage, experiencing life and, what's more important, experiencing yourself experiencing it. You haven't been reduced to a logistical strategy for somebody else's life-war.

I do believe that long periods of silence and introspection do a great deal to enrich a person's spiritual and emotional dimensions.

She herself was no longer a child. So she became, and her process of becoming was like most of ours: she developed a hatred for things that mystified or obstructed her; acquired virtues that were easy to maintain; assigned herself a role in the scheme of things; and harked back to simpler times for gratification.

Well, don't let your mouth start nothing that your ass can't stand. When you gone to get married? You need to have some babies. It'll settle you. I don't want to make somebody else. I want to make myself.

How did it feel Bad. Real bad. That's good. That it made you feel bad. I'm glad. How come? It means you're not a liar. You are deep, Thomas. Frank smiled. What you want to be when you grow up? Thomas turned the knob with his left hand and opened the door. A man, he said and left.

I don't want to make somebody else. I want to make myself.

I knew there was a minefield ahead of me and no way to avoid the bombs, and even if you didn't actually step on the bombs, you were already transformed by constantly looking out for them.

Professional success has not cured Prince's interpersonal problems, it's just given him the space to not have to say sorry.

Strolling on the plateau of life, desperate for the mountain, I never thought that I would get this far. It's only art that has carried me through, given me faith in my own existence. But now I am approaching a point in my life where I desire more...

In a perfect world perhaps we would all see more clearly. But maybe it is enough to hope that each of us will share our talents, and find the balance between greed and benevolence that allows us to live and thrive and help the world around us grow.

As much as others may need to change, or we may want them to change, the only person we can continually inspire, prod, and shape—with any degree of success—is the person in the mirror.

Luke smiled at his friend. "I seem to remember you called the Force a 'hokey religion' when I first met you." Han looked away, embarrassed. "Well, I've gotten smarter since then.

There is no way that you can change anyone else's behavior. You can only change your own and when you make a genuine effort to do that, the strangest thing happens. It allows the other people in your life to make the behavior changes you've been hoping for.

Unfortunately, we live in an instant Jell-O society, with everybody wanting microwaved success. So as you look at truth therapy to combat the lies you tell yourself, don't go overboard with your expectations. Remember to lighten up and put your party hat on every now and then. Celebrate the little steps . . . as well as the significant milestones.

people with negative attitudes don't have a learner's heart. Dumping such individuals off your team will hurt in the short run, but not in the long run. You have to remember that star performers with an attitude put a constant drag on everyone else. The price you pay for their performance is constant agitation. People with negative attitudes can't help but stir the pot.

Your private logic is shaped both by who you innately were when you were born and who you became through your family environment.