Quotes about Personal Growth

by the time you're in college, you're responsible for what you do. Your moral code is developed

Her family, the ones so gracious and honorable to take in two orphans, were harsh with her for her own good so she wouldn't become the whore her mother had been.

You loved a person for who they were, not what you wanted them to become.

I have never been such a real person as I am today.

I can't bear those people who only talk about arthritis and ring roads and television and mending gutters, although one does recognize the need for them, if only because they occasionally provide babies who grow up to be more interesting.

he wasn't going to grow up to be his father. Charlie never wanted to make anyone feel the way he felt right now.

I want to live my life taking the risk - all the time - that I don't know anything like-enough yet, that I haven't understood enough, that I can't know enough, that I'm always hungrily operating on the margins of a potentially great harvest of future knowledge and wisdom...Take the risk of thinking for yourself, much more happiness, truth, beauty, and wisdom will come to you.

I myself hope to live long enough to graduate from being a 'bad boy,' which I once was, to becoming a curmudgeon....

Experience isn't any use. And yet, in quite another way, it might be. If only we weren't all such miserable fools and prudes and cowards.

We demand too much of life, too little of ourselves.

Last time I really got to know myself it turned out there was a whole gang of bitches in there to deal with. I felt like the receptionist at a rehab center. They all had nice tits though, I gotta say.

Heartbreak is the natural habitat of the Beta Male.

cuanto antes confiesas tus errores, antes puedes irte a cometer más.

You've always been broken, love, it's the crux of your character.

The name, his true name, was weaker and more flawed than he would have liked, and he hated himself for that, but there was also much to admire within it, and the more he thought about it, the more he was able to accept the true nature of his self. He was not the best person in the world, but neither was he the worst.

A person must earn enlightenment, Eragon. It is not handed down to you by others, regardless of how revered they be.

You have learned from your mistake, and you shall not make it again. Why, then, should you withhold your blessing from those who may benefit from it?

I never want to hear you use that excuse again, that because someone else has done—or would do—something means that you should too. It's lazy, repugnant, and indicative of an inferior mind. Am I clear?

Luka luka yang kita kumpulkan menandai kesalahan sekaligus keberhasilan kita

By pursuing that which you love the most. When you can have anything you want by uttering a few words, the goal matters not, only the journey to it. A lesson for you. You'll face the same dilemma one day, if you live long enough….

Christopher Paolini

One shouldn't expect anyone to be complete at any given moment.

When offering a person a chance at redemption, you can't force them to take it." - Savara

The positive side of willpower is the power to do and to frame all of your I won'ts as being in the service of those higher I wills. Once you do that, you're no longer using your willpower to oppress and disappoint half of yourself. You're using it to create the future self that you really care about. Thus, willpower is really just being as kind as you can to the man you want to become.