Quotes about Personal Growth

One of the most satisfying feelings I know—and also one of the most growth-promoting experiences for the other person—comes from my appreciating this individual in the same way that I appreciate a sunset. People are just as wonderful as sunsets if I can let them be. In fact, perhaps the reason we can truly appreciate a sunset is that we cannot control it.

I found myself doing this same thing—playing a role of having greater certainty and greater competence than I really possess. I can't tell you how disgusted with myself I felt as I realized what I was doing: I was not being me, I was playing a part.

It becomes easier for me to accept myself as a decidedly imperfect person, who by no means functions at all times in the way in which I would like to function.

letting my experience carry me on, in a direction which appears to be forward, toward goals that I can but dimly define, as I try to understand at least the current meaning of that experience.

In therapy the individual learns to recognize and express his feelings as his own feelings, not as a fact about another person.

To discover that it is not devastating to accept the positive feeling from another, that it does not necessarily end in hurt, that it actually "feels good" to have another person with you in your struggles to meet life —this may be one of the most profound learnings encountered by the individual whether in therapy or not.

I speak as a person, from a context of personal experience and personal learnings.

Below the level of the problem situation about which the individual is complaining—behind the trouble with studies, or wife, or employer, or with his own uncontrollable or bizarre behavior, or with his frightening feelings, lies one central search. It seems to me that at bottom each person is asking, "Who am I, really? How can I get in touch with this real self, underlying all my surface behavior? How can I become myself?

The good life, from the point of view of my experience, is the process of movement in a direction which the human organism selects when it is inwardly free to move in any direction.

Life is like an onion; you peel it off one layer at a time, and sometimes you weep.

I knew she wouldn't remember me," Della said as she and Jordan once again sat at the table. "She had her head so far up her ass in high school, the only thing she could recognize was her own colon.

Ayusin mo muna ang buhay mo. Pinagpala kang maganda. Isabay mo d'on ang pagiging masipag.

I'm a learning machine and this is the place to learn.

Stay in your lane. Hold the space. Be true to your authentic self—the best representation of yourself that you can possibly be.

Are you the same person today—as a college sophomore—as you were in the third grade?" he asked the student. "No, of course not," she replied. "Then something happened to you that made you grow, that forced you to look at the world differently. That event is your momentous occasion.

Humility is a difficult lesson.

Only I can change my life. No one can do it for me.

Think about what you want to look back and say. Then choose your mindset.

She was a grown-up, divorced woman now, on her own. She'd gotten herself this far, she could get herself around Italy too.

When an individual develops his heaven nature, he shines like the sun. Such a person keeps conscious of, and clings to, what is good and great within himself.

One finds, through developing oneself, that the rectification of relationships will not be achieved by telling others what to do, but by following the path that is correct for oneself.

There are times in life to grow, and there are times in life to shine. One can't grow and shine at the same time; it just doesn't work that way. Now you're growing. Tomorrow you'll shine.

How far I've come! I'm the same girl and yet not the same. I wonder if it's always like that? Folks keep growing from one person into another all their lives, and life is just a lot of everyday adventures. Well, whatever life is, I like it.

How far I've come! I'm the same girl, yet not the same. I wonder if it's always like that? Folks keep growing from one person to another all their lives, and life is just a lot of everyday adventures. Well, whatever life is, I like it.