Quotes about Personal Growth

Meditation is not a matter of trying to achieve ecstasy, spiritual bliss or tranquility, nor is it attempting to be a better person. It is simply the creation of a space in which we are able to expose and undo our neurotic games, our self-deceptions, our hidden fears and hopes.

Chad Davidson

A person becomes great not by sitting on some high seat, but through higher qualities. A crow does not become an eagle by simply sitting on the top of a palatial building.

I'm thinking of slowing down on modeling and branching out to other things. I want to pursue some new and old dreams and start making them happen.

Let the people you love grow in their own ways. If they ask you, yes, offer your wisdom, the benefit of what you've learned during your time on earth. But the best thing we can give them is our love - not our advice, and certainly not our judgement.

15 minutes a day! Give me just this and I'll prove I can make you a new man.

There can be no progress (real, that is, moral) except in the individual and by the individual himself.

Anyway, what I've just told you was what prompted the chair incident. I had grown big, and he was trying to belittle me.

You know, few people really want to become individuals," he says. "People claim that they do, but they don't. They want to retain the invisibility of childhood anonymity forever. But that's not possible except in a police state. In an ordinary life, you have to become yourself.

And if I could change my peer-driven party-animal self, maybe I could change everything.

It was a problem that needed squaring away and I squared it away for them. By now it seemed like it was something I was doing all my life. If you count my father sending me out to beat up other boys so he could win beer bets, maybe it was. Evidently

Greater cane does not make greater humans. (Une plus grande canne - N'agrandit l'homme.)

Change begins at home

I wear the chain I forged in life....I made it link by link, and yard by yard; I girded it on of my own free will, and of my own free will I wore it.

Some people are nobody's enemies but their own, yer know.

Yes. He is quite a good fellow - nobody's enemy but his own.

The secret was such an old one now, had so grown into me and become a part of myself, that I could not tear it away.

Cada fracaso enseña algo que se necesitaba aprender.

Such is the sleight of hand by which we juggle with ourselves, and change our very weaknesses into stanch and most magnanimous virtues!

We count by changes and events within us. Not by years.

Best and happiest of all, the Time before him was his own, to make amends in!

Hacía poco que él y otros ciento cuarenta maestros habían salido al mismo tiempo de la misma fabrica, manufacturados con las mismas normas [...]. Si hubiese aprendido algunas cosas menos, habría estado en situación de enseñar muchas cosas más de una manera infinitamente mejor

Mr. Wopsle's great-aunt conquered a confirmed habit of living into which she had fallen, and Biddy became a part of our establishment.

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