Quotes about Personal Growth

For the self-development of men and women it is absolutely necessary that they should be alone with themselves at least one hour each day-to get the blessings of solitude.

An intelligent, energetic, educated woman cannot be kept in four walls - even satin-lined, diamond-studded walls - without discovering sooner or later that they are still a prison cell.

A sobering thought: what if, at this very moment, I am living up to my full potential?

It's kind of like family. I can't say that we go out to lunch and to the movies every day with each other. Everyone's fully grown adult women with lives.

Most women are starving to receive something from a man that they need to give to themselves.

I think I've been good, but I want to be better. I think women reach their peak in their mid-thirties.

I've been used by women all my life, fortunately.

I wouldn't want my daughters to date a guy like me. I was dangerous around women in my twenties. I'm terrified that they might end up with someone like me.

Women who disapprove of men - and there's plenty to disapprove of - should remember how we started out, and how far we had to travel.

Growing up is, after all, only the understanding that one's unique and incredible experience is what every one shares.

Women, we tend to become whole people by venturing outside of the home, learning to aspire, to achieve, to deal with conflict - all these qualities that are wrongly called masculine.

As a kid, I grew to define what I didn't want my life to be like by sitting behind moaning women on the bus, hearing them bang on about their aches and pains, both real and imagined.

Going into therapy doesn't guarantee poop on toast.

Between 21-30 women go through humungous changes. After that, they've generally achieved what they wanted, and they're more settled.

I can't stand that - those women in 'Waiting to Exhale' now. I can't stand them. But that's because I'm 53 and not 33. But what they were experiencing at 33, I identified with it.

I'm a grown woman. I've earned my experiences, my scars.

If a man would move the world he must first move himself.

I didn't change, I just found myself.

Your end can be greater than your beginning: butterflies are the greatest proof of this.

No one can be your sun, moon, or stars until you have your own world.

A flower must bloom inside first before revealing its beauty to the world.

She knew breaking up with Ethan was going to be a full-time job because being in a relationship with him had also been a full-time job.

Writing can be a long and winding road or a straightforward march to the finish.What matters is that you enjoy the journey.

I am now a faded image of my former being, I let that persona go.I like myself for who I am and I choose to be, me.