Quotes about Personal Growth

Kaip popierius, ant kurio rašome, kadaise buvo r?stai, taip ir žmon?s tur?jo daug k? patirti, kad pasiekt? dabarties tašk?.

The art of being yourself at your best is the art of unfolding your personality into the person you want to be. Be gentle with yourself, learn to love yourself, to forgive yourself, for only as we have the right attitude toward ourselves can we have the right attitude towards others. —WILFRED PETERSON

Todo el mundo debe seguir su propio camino. Y todos llegamos al lugar que debemos llegar. Sobretodo si contamos con el guía adecuado.

Solo comprendiendo al niño que vive en nuestro interior, podemos acceder a la verdadera dimensión de nuestras falencias y nuestros miedos, y desde esa realidad emocional, ver qué recursos tenemos para mejorar nuestra vida de adultos. Es indispensable comprender que dependemos de nuestra realidad emocional. Y que tendremos que encontrar la propia voz para nombrarla.

The self on tiptoes sneaking away from the self.

When you get back together with an old boyfriend, it's pathetic. It's like having a garage sale and buying your own stuff back.

This was the dawn of a new day, and a new Emma Dove. Never again was she going to sit by while life went on around her. Never again was she going to wait for fate to hand her what she wanted. From now on, she was going to reach out and grab her dreams and not let go. She had never been more scared in her life.

Laura Lippman

Life perfects us, if we let it.

Buying a book is not about obtaining a possession... but about securing a portal.

I don't have time to ruins others lives. I'm too busy making my own better.

Once the kids are in school, it's amazing what you can do.

Why we all need a night off I developed this rule because I have seen the difference it makes in my own life, a difference not dissimilar from the glow Hannah developed. I love to sing. So I've made a habit of seeking out community choirs wherever I live. After moving to New York City in 2002, I joined three ensembles as a way to get my work-from-home-self dressed and out of the apartment at least three evenings per week.

know that discipline isn't exactly a fun concept, but this skill of picturing yourself on

If you take nothing else from this book, I hope you remember this: Success is possible, even in the midst of a complex and occasionally chaotic life. You do not need to wait for some less-hectic future time to become the person you want to be. With a different perspective, and a focus on doing what you can, you can be that person now.

What challenges, if any, affected your ability to do this activity three times this week? How did you address these challenges? Did you need to modify this rule to work for you? How? How likely are you to continue using this rule in your life?

Harsh as this sounds, if you're not in the right job—a job that is moving you toward where you want to be in life—then you're wasting almost all the time you're spending at work.

Pay attention to when you feel most absorbed at work. If you want to be blissful, your job should involve spending as much time as possible in that space where you are leveraging your core competencies, and working in the way you choose on something demanding enough that, as Earle puts it in Sea Change, "one discovery leads to another, each new scrap of information triggering awareness of dozens of new unknowns.

Planning questions: What "big adventures" (taking a few hours) would you like to try in the next month? List at least three. What "little adventures" (taking about an hour) would you like to try in the next month? List at least three.

Broadly, those who get the most out of life try to figure out and focus on their core competencies. They know that at least one key difference between happy, successful people, and those just muddling along is that the happy ones spend as many of their 168 hours as possible on their core competencies—honing their focus to get somewhere—and, like modern corporations, chucking everything else.

Despite the usual reputation of self-help, the truth is that most self-help readers already have their lives together. People pick up books on time management because their lives are good, and yet they can see in that goodness that there is space for even more wonder.

Everyone knows that you should never wreck your life for a boy, and especially not one that you meet while you're in high school.

Sometimes I cannot say much about why I go to church other than what people who go to the gym say: I always feel better once I'm there; I feel better after; it is always good for me, not good in a take-your-vitamins way, in a chidingly moralistic way, but in a palpable way.

This was when I thought I could rewrite any script. Now I'm grown and know that very few of us get to become the people we thought we'd be when we were kids.