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Quotes about Personal Growth

You've been moping around for too long...It's time you grew into your next self.
~ Lauren Myracle
And I have the same heart in the same socket of chest, and it hammers the way it used to, and I find myself thinking the same words, Safe again, trapped again. My pals sweat on the steering wheel. I remind myself: I am not that girl. I've changed. I've grown. It's a long time ago.
~ Lauren Slater
Having a child does not change you so much as amplify whatever is unresolved.
~ Lauren Slater
All it takes is the right training, and we step out, over the boundaries of our bodies and their limitations.
~ Lauren Slater
Being a mother is a lot like growing up. When, or how, did you become an adult? What was the precise moment you lost your childhood? No one can say. It's all so permeable.
~ Lauren Slater
Gradually, the Murshid helps the Murid to see wider horizons, leading the ego to open its petals and flower, embracing a greater totality of being.
~ Laurence Galian
The more you know the force that is the opposite of the force you are invoking, the more you can successfully reach the Third Point of Transcendence. When dealing with personal matters, the opposite force is a force that is living inside you.
~ Laurence Galian
Doing magick without knowing oneself is like driving a car with the emergency brake on.
~ Laurence Galian
It may come as a surprise that living life in a full and expanded way is one of the most difficult challenges we face as human beings.
~ Laurence Heller
Traumatized individuals, which includes most of us to differing degrees, need both top-down and bottom-up approaches that address nervous system imbalances as well as issues of identity.
~ Laurence Heller
Psychiatry enables us to correct our faults by confessing our parents' shortcomings.
~ Laurence J. Peter
The feather put into his cap of having been abroad.
~ Laurence Sterne
If you really want to find your voice, your goal is to journey toward inner wholeness--which is what life is about anyway. It involves self-acceptance and genuine self-respect. from Unleash the Writer Within
~ Cecil Murphey
Most of the time, everyone deserves more than one chance. We all do things we regret now and then. You just have to carry them with you.
~ Celeste Ng
There was no room left in her for anger. Something within her tipped and cracked.
~ Celeste Ng
Even her beloved Warren gave up at that point -- "I don't need to know how it works, Mi," he told her at last, "I just want to see the pictures" -- and Mia realized that she was crossing into a place she would have to go alone.
~ Celeste Ng
parking lot.
~ Celeste Ng
His skin feels too small for his thoughts.
~ Celeste Ng
Celya Bowers
~ your right,
Ac?lar? dev aynas?nda büyüten rezil bir hassasiyetim var.
~ Cemil Meriç
Così questo paese, dove non sono nato, ho creduto per molto tempo che fosse tutto il mondo. Adesso che il mondo l'ho visto davvero e so che è fatto di tanti piccoli paesi, non so se da ragazzo mi sbagliavo poi di molto.
~ Cesare Pavese
Si faccia una vita interiore, di studio, di affetti, che non siano soltanto di "arrivare", ma di "essere" - e vedrà che la vita avrà un significato.
~ Cesare Pavese
You are the best company for yourself.
~ Chogyam Trungpa
Meditation practice is not an exotic or out-of-reach approach. It is immediate and personal, and it involves an intimate relationship with ourselves. It is getting to know ourselves by examining our actual psychological process without being ashamed of it.
~ Chogyam Trungpa