Quotes about Personal Growth

After my parents split up my mother moved to Lake Oswego and I went to Lake Oswego High School. And then finally I went to Portland State University for a year and a half before dropping out and moving to New York.

Early in my career, I was really spoiled with a beautiful project. I got such a good start that I thought, 'Why would I ever take a step back?' Why would I take on something that wasn't meaningful - to me, if nobody else - and powerful and groundbreaking?

Once I started dancing, I was not the spoiled brat or the rebellious child that I was as a child.

Whenever a relationship doesn't go on the right path, it affects me in some form, but it hasn't spoilt anything for me.

I did get myself into little scrapes when I was younger and a bit stupid, but there is only one manager I have worked under who ever spoke a bad word about me.

I love acting and making your own luck. You have to recreate yourself, I guess. Although, I don't know how.

It's difficult to say what's luck and what's not because everything depends on what you learn along the way, and that depends on you as an individual. So I suppose, no, I don't believe in it.

Being fired was the best luck of my life. It made me stop and reflect. It was the birth of my life as a writer.

...but I like who I became just fine. That's the way life is. We all try to make something out of our lives, and some of us are just luckier than others.

Marriage is not a ritual or an end. It is a long, intricate, intimate dance together and nothing matters more than your own sense of balance and your choice of partner.

Become the kind of person the kind of person you would like to marry would like to marry.

When two people decide to get a divorce, it isn't a sign that they 'don't understand' one another, but a sign that they have, at last, begun to.

The highest love a person can have for you is to wish for you to evolve into the best person you can be.

Remember that the successful marriage depends on two things: (1) finding the right person and (2) being the right person.

Each experience I go through - marriage, my public life, my personal life - I'm learning as I go.

This is the kind of situation that can tear people apart. It tears at the fabric of your soul and can certainly tear at your marriage and ours has gotten only stronger.

Marriage can either be a classroom where people become wiser and better, or a prison where people become resentful; and bitter.

Sometimes idiosyncrasies which used to be irritating become endearing, part of the complexity of a partner who has become woven deep into our own selves.

I had a lousy marriage and I drank too much.

Somebody who has been in a very bad wreck is going to be very conscientious about not speeding through a yellow light... You just learn so many good lessons when you go through a failed marriage.

Everything in life is a lesson and I have learned from each marriage. Yes, I've made mistakes but every experience is a learning curve.

I had a terrible marriage the first time around because I had no self-confidence, even though I had tremendous self-confidence.

On her marriage breakup with Liam: I can honestly say that life is fantastic now. I'm so happy that all the mess I used to have to deal with is not my mess anymore.

I don't want marriage. You know why? Because I did that. I did it for 32 years.