Quotes about Personal Growth

In fact, looking back, it seems to me that I was clueless until I was about fifty years old.

People and relationships never stop being a work in progress

Up to this point your life has pretty much sucked. You're not responsible for that. But you are responsible for what happens from here on.

Aidan to Jude: What's wrong with running away if where you were didn't suit you? Doesn't it follow you're funning to something else? Something that does suit you?

The old goes into making us what we are, or what we're hell-bent on not being.

I had to get by the flower beds he's planted, the flowers in vases, candles, the potpourri in the powder room— Mother of God! Potpourri in the powder room. We need to get a posse together ASAP , go get him. He can be deprogrammed. Don't lose hope.

Even a good place gets to be a rut, especially if you're standing in it alone... Alone and lonely have the same root.

Mothers do, every day. It's funny, Bo, how a woman can bring two children into the world, raise them up the same way—the same rules and values, indulgences and disciplines. And still two separate people come out of it all.

She stared at him. You'd be willing to change your life so dramatically? Ray and Stella Quinn changed my life.

Tragedy doesn't necessarily change us. More often, I think, it just brings out more of who we are—or were—all along.

When are you going to stop being annoyed

He thought back to his early twenties when he'd routinely looked for ways to meet women. He should've rented a puppy.

It hurts now, and the pain's real, so hugs, my treasure. But give it a few weeks, and you'll realize he's just another asshole. Kick butt and namaste.

happening to and

when she should have known it was something she had to find for herself.

Can't do much about it as person's the root of personal. We can't stop being people, or it wins.

She was, at sixteen years, eight months and twenty-one days, a product of her mother's meticulous and detailed agenda. That was about to change.

What happens before matters because it shapes things. But who you were a year ago isn't as important as who you are now.

Know thyself. —Inscribed on the Temple of Apollo at Delphi What we have to learn to do, we learn by doing. —Aristotle CHAPTER ELEVEN She lay flat on her back on thick grass under a brilliantly blue sky.

We knew he was taking an adventure, and we gave him the room. If we hadn't, he'd've found a way around it. Birds have to fledge. You can't stop it, no matter how much you want to keep them safe in the nest." Brian O'Dell The Hollow

You don't write what you know, or you would write one thing. I never understood that. You write what you want to find out.

I hope you're right. Maybe I will have tea. She turned, touched Pilar's cheek. You have a good, strong heart. I always knew that. But you have clearer vision than I once gave you credit for. Broader, I think. It took me a long time to work up the courage to take the blinders off. It's changed my life

it hasn't changed you. It's revealed you.

You can't blame yourself for being, Kirby.(...) You can't blame a tree for reaching for the sun or another for rotting from within. We make our own choices and we're each responsible for them. Blame and credit belong to the individual. You haven't the right to claim either from someone else.