Quotes about Personal Growth

I know I love going to my gym - I have a whole list of things I love to do by myself without needing someone else to make me happy.

I think I was probably, at one point, a very needy friend, and as you grow up and you have your own life and get married or not and have kids or not, and life goes, and it grows, and you grow with it, and - I think I'm a better friend now.

I think it's interesting to know that being a geek isn't the negative thing that it used to be.

I've never really been aware of what is said about me, whether it's positive or negative. I ignore it. I've always had the mind-set: 'No one can challenge me better than myself.'

Everybody has positives and negatives. I just want to learn and keep getting better.

I love the comedy world and really grew up in green rooms, so I wanted to show the positives and negatives.

'Bigg Boss' for me is a journey and when the journey is coming to an end you don't want to continue any negativity, grudges or burden with you.

I don't do anything out of negativity anymore.

It's the nature of a human that when you get neglected somewhere, you want to go back and prove a point.

Baton Rouge is small, so when somebody like me blowup, who they used to chase around the neighborhood, who was a wild little kid, that affects people.

There is an idea abroad among moral people that they should make their neighbors good. One person I have to make good: Myself. But my duty to my neighbor is much more nearly expressed by saying that I have to make him happy if I may.

I remember, in the early days of my marriage, I thought I married the wrong person. We held to our own ideas of what the other should be and do, but neither of us lived up to those expectations.

Man's nature is fundamentally good, or perhaps it is neither good nor evil. In any case, man is something to work on. We must hold fast to this fact - man is something to work on.

I was born in Nepal, I grew up in the Gurkhas, and I became a man in the SBS.

Growing up, I was a nerd. With actual taped eyeglasses.

I was home schooled in high school but was definitely the nerd in middle school.

I was a nerdy student.

The first time I sang in front of an audience, I was about 14 - it was at my guitar school's showcase, and there were about 30 people there. I was so nervous, but I did it.

I never want to change. I get nervous about that... people thinking that I've changed just because the circumstances of my life have.

I know what I'm missing. I know what I have to work on. Coloratura. And I sing sharp sometimes. It happens when I'm nervous.

The two times I had nervous breakdowns in my life were when I graduated from college and had my first kid.

All my friends were off on gap years, so going to New York alone, at the age of 18, was kind of my flying the nest. It was an amazing experience.

It was hard for me to leave the nest, but my mom is super proud of me. She said, 'You became independent really quickly, and I'm so proud of you,' but she misses me all the same.

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