Quotes about Personal Growth

One thing led to another and I was selected from Hyderabad for the Miss India pageant. I remember my mother being really surprised that I wanted to take part!

If I hadn't had the talent, the networks wouldn't have televised my fights. No one has made me; I made myself. I paid my dues.

The aggression. The love. The joy. The pain. All those feelings and emotions that come from the music are Chicago. Chicago pretty much made me the man that I am. It's in my name. I have no choice but to accept and embrace that.

We all have our painful pasts we have to get through.

Divorce is hard and painful and complicated, and something you have to grow through.

Coming out was painful, but life got so much better for me.

I like that I've been through things, that when something happens, it resonates with something that already happened. It's not that things like loss are more or less painful. But they're deeper. I find that fascinating.

I felt that if I shared the lessons that I learned - both the good ones and the bad ones - that I might make the climb a little less painful for other women.

My 20s were pretty painful.

I have been around for more than 30 years and it has been quite a journey. It had its glorious moments on camera and painful moments off camera.

Life is about growth and that is sometimes painful.

I know I've done bad things. But I've done just as much good as I have done bad. And it's not even necessarily bad. I would say they're growing pains.

I think that's what makes characters interesting - when you paint a person into a corner, and you see what they do to get out of that corner. It's what makes drama drama.

I arrived in the U.S. for graduate study in literature in the fall of 1986. I was twenty-three. After a year, I began to paint, even though I had come to the U.S. intending to become a writer.

I started painting graffiti in the classic New York style of big letters and characters but I was never very good at it.

Well, I've been painting for years. I just started doing a lot more in the last couple.

When I think of Paisley, I think of everything that has shaped my life.

I don't think there is really much from my career that I want to go back to. I think that, with most of the characters that I've been lucky enough to work with, I've said all I have to say about the Black Panther, Green Lantern, and on and on.

I moved to Los Angeles when I was about 20, all by myself. It was exciting. I had this moment when I felt like I needed to put on my big-boy pants and just make that leap to see what would happen.

Before taking up dressage, I'd distanced myself from the Paralympics because I hadn't wanted to be defined by my disability. Then when I grew up and got an office job, things started to change. I'm actually allergic to horses, but I'm even more allergic to paperwork!

I'm a really good parent to myself sometimes, and I do things that make me learn and grow.

I'm pretty proud of the parent that I've become.

My dad being not the greatest dad in the world has made me a better parent.

I think that once you become a parent, you cease to think of yourself as a hero or heroine.