Quotes about Personal Growth

she'd sometimes wondered what good all those sorries were if nothing ever changed

Woman must come of age by herself Ã¢â'¬Â¦ She must find her true center alone. —Anne Morrow Lindbergh, Gift from the Sea

There were journeys in life no one could take for you. Page 383

So you can't compare the present with the past, not really, because you're a different person than you were [when Patrick was alive]. You have to look forward to the things you want, not back at the things you once had.

We all come into this world with our fate unwritten, Yona. Your identity isn't determined by your birth. All that matters is what we make ourselves into, what we choose to do with our lives." Forest of Vanishing Stars

think you're sad. And I think you're searching for purpose. But becoming someone's mistress is not the way to find yourself.

it's what's inside a person that counts. And sometimes, you have to walk through fire in order to find your true self. Maybe this is your fire.

We always teach best what we most need to learn.

Personal growth isn't about beating yourself up, it's about celebrating your ability to refine and enhance yourself, and increase your personal development through awareness.

Personal growth is all about reflecting and noticing the thoughts that simply don't serve my family or me. Past grudges, regrets, anger, resentment, fears, and other emotional baggage only hinder the happiness in my spirit and our home. In essence, it is a spring-cleaning of unhealthy attachments.

dreaming of the person you want to be is wasting the person you already are.

A successful individual typically sets his next goal somewhat but not too much above his last achievement. In this way he steadily raises his level of aspiration.

What war has always been is a puberty ceremony. It's a very rough one, but you went away a boy and came back a man, maybe with an eye missing or whatever but godammit you were a man and people had to call you a man thereafter.

The practice of art isn't to make a living. It's to make your soul grow.

Life is a mountain, Youngblood. Nobody said the climb was gonna be easy. You gotta choose your route. Get your gear. Breathe. Clear your mind. And enjoy the journey

Basketball rule #3 Never let anyone lower your goals Other's expectations of you are determined by their limitations of life. The sky is the limit, sons. Always shoot for the sun And you _will_ shine.

unless you've got a thing for women with stratospheric IQ's and abysmal taste in men. It'd taken her a long time to recognize that she consistently chose males who didn't see her only their own reflection in her. Once she figured that out she started to regain a measure of her self respect..

I know my past ain't one you can easily get past/But that chapter is done" —JAY-Z

Let's learn the lesson from this relationship so we can move on to a healthier, happier solution the next time around.

Never let your future depends of nothing but you. Never let your plans controlled by luck or possibilities. If you hope for a good tomorrow, be you the tomorrow.

Nobody is perfect. However life gives us a chance to be today what we were unable to be yesterday.

She wasn't afraid of him anymore. They weren't a centuries-old hunter and a seventeen-year-old human girl, sitting here at the edge of the world. They were just two people, Damon and Bonnie, who had to do the best they could.

In the world there are only two ways of raising one's self, either by one's own industry or by the weakness of others.

But the fruit that can fall without shaking, Indeed is too mellow for me.