Quotes about Personal Growth

There is no greater happiness than being loved and there is no greater sadness than loving when you are not loved! Life is just process where everyone has to go through and leave so, don't give time to what hurts you heart .

Oprah had come a long way from the days when she, too, loved to shock her audiences. But she no longer wanted to be seen as a vulgarian, hosting shows for nudists and shouting 'penis, penis, penis.

Those who wish to transform the world must be able to transform themselves.

Me? I'm just a literary girl gone wrong. Slow with the tongue. Quick with the pen. Undeniably cute. But, on the whole, ill-equipped for the privilege of living.

Not going back is fine. Not going back but occasionally visiting might be best. Not going back but remembering so you don't see the same view twice. Not going back so you can turn a new page, write a new chapter, develop an entire new list. Not going back so you can stretch and grow and see yourself in a light that you never knew existed. Not going back so that you can fly. Fly.

And it is in the whole educational system, that we must educate people to become capable and to take their place in society. That has value, obviously. But it's not quite the same thing as to educate people to relate, to listen, to help people to become themselves.

Commandment #1: Believe in yourself. Commandment #2: Get over yourself.

You want to be treated like an adult? Then you need to grow up.

Funny, how easy that could be. When you found the right person, there was no hiding of flaws...there was just trying to do better. There was the comfort of admitting your weaknesses and trying to get past them. The knowledge that no one needed you to be on all the time, always fun, upbeat, attentive... He only needed you to be yourself. The security in knowing someone loved simply being with you.

So I guess I'm ready to...start dating. I want to get married again. Have a family." Ethan leans forward, causing Fat Mikey to jump off his lap. "I see," he says. I look at the floor for a second. "Right." Risking a peek at Ethan, I add, "So we should probably stop sleeping together.

I could grow from that broken place and be better for it. A flower growing through a crack in the pavement, as it were.

Only experience, she had learned somewhere along the way, led to wisdom.

I have a great family by the way, but you need to find people who can pull something out from you that might be otherwise unseen.

I'm asked all the time in interviews about who I am, and I know a few people my age who have a strong sense of self, but I couldn't say I know myself and sum it up and give it to you in a little package. I don't know myself at all yet.

My mom says the apple doesn't fall far from the tree, but I'm hopeful that their tree was on a hill and I'm rolling farther away as write

You have to get past them. Life doesn't give us other options. You either learn from mistakes and grow or stagnate." Joel stared off into the distance.

I'm constantly learning, and that is the greatest gift of life in my opinion - to always be learning and growing.

My pilgrim's progress has been to climb down a thousand ladders until I could finally reach out a hand of friendship to the little clod of earth that I am.

The best kids are going to become the best. But the best thing about it is that you're going to learn lessons in playing those sports about winning and losing and teamwork and teammates and arguments and everything else that are going to affect you positively for the rest of your life.

In my early professional years I was asking the question: How can I treat, or cure, or change this person? Now I would phrase the question in this way: How can I provide a relationship which this person may use for his own personal growth?

To be what one is, is to enter fully into being a process.

I am less and less a creature of influences in myself which operate beyond my ken in the realms of the unconscious. I am increasingly an architect of self. I am free to will and choose. I can, through accepting my individuality, my 'isness,' become more of my uniqueness, more of my potentiality.

I have come to feel that the only learning which significantly influences behavior is self-discovered, self-appropriated learning.

another way of learning for me is to state my own uncertainties, to try to clarify my puzzlements, and thus get closer to the meaning that my experience actually seems to have.