Quotes about Personal Growth

My parents keep me grounded. I've spent a lot of time on my own in my life, and I've learnt the hard way.

After the first album, I felt like I needed to one up myself - get even bigger features - and I spent six months thinking about that and not making any music.

Motherhood has brought me many joys and insights, but the new perspective it granted me on the role I had inadvertently played in young women's lives for the 2 decades I spent in the modeling industry was downright sobering.

I'm so glad I spent 10 years being sad and lonely.

For me, I spent four years at Duke, and I was 22 my rookie year. For a lot of guys, I was old as a rookie, but nothing could prepare me for the NBA, both on the court and off the court.

As you get older, you realize just figuring out how to be nice to the people in your personal sphere is almost more challenging than trying to change the bigger culture.

In the first two episodes, before she becomes Queen, I could be a lot freer with my emotions, but as the series goes on, she develops an armour in order to cope with her circumstances. She has to be a sphinx, which must be so hard. Imagine never being able to shout, 'Shut up,' or cry, even in front of your own family.

What got me motivated was my dad's idea that I go to Morehouse College in Atlanta. It's an all-black, all-male school. Martin Luther King went there. The most famous person in my class was Spike Lee. And I really caught fire. I was so inspired by the people around me that I went from C's and D's to straight A's by the time I left.

The bourgeois woman not only demands her own bread, but she also requests spiritual nourishment and wants to develop her individuality.

This is my spiritual journey through life, my way of making sense of the world. I don't need permission from anyone or accolades from anyone; it is completely internal.

A big part of what I wanted to do with this character was go from when I was a boy and try and develop into a man, really try and play him as a man who is on this search, on a journey of personal, spiritual, political, social discovery.

I don't want to be daft and say I had some spiritual awakening or something, but I really did come of age in Los Angeles, where we recorded the album. I had my own little house and my own little circle and I really got to feel how the city ticks.

My spiritual system is 12-step programs. That's the only one I've ever had. I didn't have one before that.

I read all these books about excellence, and then I went into spirituality, and all these books were really about leveling up. Being the best version of yourself.

I read for the 'ah-ha's,' the information that makes a light bulb go off in my mind. I want to put information in my mind that is going to be the most beneficial to me, my family and my fellow man - financially, morally, spiritually, and emotionally.

I think quite spiritually of myself. I feel like I'm here to support the human evolution.

I'm not afraid to improve myself spiritually, emotionally, economically. I'm not afraid to take on that challenge.

Most people I knew had been crippled by their educations. Some were even dying spiritually.

I think all any artist or person wants to do is grow spiritually, emotionally, professionally and mentally.

You go to Africa, and you see how things are over there. Spiritually, it opens you up.

I came to London with a girl. We lived together and split up very quickly. I was on my own in London so started going to comedy clubs.

I think every girl needs a good lip split story, I have one. I fell onto my front door doorknob coming back from the mailbox, once.

My parents' marriage was very rocky. They were always arguing. When they split up when I was in my 20s, my brother and I were both delighted because we knew they weren't good for each other.

When I had my daughter and split up with her father six months later, I had a really hard time.