Quotes about Personal Growth

I won't try to argue with your experience and what you've shaped out of it. But the world isn't a jail. We just make our own sometimes. Does that make any sense to you?

I don't try to correct yesterday's mistakes in the present. I mark them off. I truly mark them off. A person hurts me only once.

was. The constant learning and

The only person holding you back; is you. Once you become comfortable with overcoming your own fears, you will start seeing dramatic success in your life.

It's easy to get into a rut, which is simply a familiar pattern that feels comfortable. If you truly want to grow as a person and lead a successful life, you have to get out of the 'box.

Don't wait for change. You change.

I loved her," Robinson said. "And I loved the sick girl you were when I met you, and I loved the good student and the bad driver. I loved the car thief, the hitchhiker, the quoter of novels I haven't read, and the hater of Slim Jims… Axi Moore, I've loved every you there ever was.

You're your own worst enemy, Marta always said to me. You don't need anyone to torment you because you do it to yourself.

I had made a friend. My second one in fourteen years. I was on a roll.

Mountains exist for you to climb," the monk said slowly in English, Ã¢â'¬Å"not for you to carry.

Nuke Khatchadorian.

yourself in one of these cells.

I have never been someone who applied 'work begets work' to my career, sometimes unfortunately.

You grow up however, unfortunately, as the college years fly by, into a very exaggerated sense of your own capacities.

I date, but the person I date most is myself, unfortunately.

Only after I faced the unhappiness of my first marriage did I start on the path of personal growth.

For years I thought of many other people. As we all do. But we should all step back and say, 'What's making me unhappy? What's not working for me? What can I take out for a bit and take out long-term that will help me a bit?'

I'd like to think that, if I'm unhappy, that I would try and change things so I am happy.

I realised those things my ego needed - fame and success - were going to make me terribly unhappy. So I wrenched myself away from that. I had to. I had to walk away from America and say goodbye to the biggest part of my career because I knew, otherwise, my demons would get the better of me.

When I think about Edmonton, Silver Street and Pymmes Park, the old people whose faces are so unhappy, it pushes me to be better. I want to be better to help places like this.

I know during my transition it was difficult for me to stop believing I would be stuck unhappy forever, but that's not true. Physical changes take a while but internal feelings of changing and finding your peace can take way longer.

Psychology is much bigger than just medicine, or fixing unhealthy things. It's about education, work, marriage - it's even about sports. What I want to do is see psychologists working to help people build strengths in all these domains.

When I see a contemporary deliver a good performance, I get inspired to do better. I don't sit and mull over other people's successes; that can be unhealthy.

At the end of the day, as long as you kind of focus on what you can do and what you can achieve and what's in front of you, that's all you can be doing and all you should be doing. Anything else is probably unhealthy.