Quotes about Personal Growth

People are moved when their interactions with you always leave them a little better.

When we attempt to use criticism to win an argument, to make a point, or to incite change, we are taking two steps backward.

Do you know someone you would like to change and regulate and improve? Good! That is fine. I am all in favour of it. But why not begin on yourself?

Por medio de la crítica nunca provocamos cambios duraderos, y con frecuencia creamos resentimientos

Yet, during these broken and irregular periods, he had developed one of the most valuable assets any man can have, even from a university education: a love of knowledge and a thirst for learning.

but in the beginning, she was—well, susceptible to improvement.

Read some good, heavy, serious books just for discipline: Take yourself in hand and master yourself.

Make yourself do unpleasant things so as to gain the upper hand of your soul.

The very best thing you can do for the whole world is to make the most of yourself.

you can advance only by more than filling your present place.

I'm glad you're seeing someone," she said. "You and Thomas had a pretty complex relationship. You've spent an enormous amount of emotional energy on Thomas. Your whole life. Now, you're going to have to take all of that energy and . . . reinvest it, I guess. It's bound to be a complicated process.

Your children are not your children,'" he said. "'They are the sons and daughters of Life's longing for itself.'" "What's that supposed to mean?" I lit another Doral. "It's from The Prophet. Kahlil Gibran.

These are the days that must happen to you

The earth remains jagged and broken only to him or her who remains jagged and broken.

not I, not anyone else can travel that road for you, you must travel for yourself.

A great poem is no finish to a man or woman but rather a beginning.

Yes, she is the fruit that will Sustain me and yes, she brings A rain that I know can chill But it is a rain so sweet and sings A song my soul insists That I follow, if I would exist As more than I have ever, ever been If my mother calls it evil, then I embrace the sin

I believe that the most important mission of the state is to protect the individual and to make it possible for him to develop into a creative personality

Everything you've ever done in your life is shit," Jobs said, "so why don't you come work for me?

Growing up, I got inspired by the history of the place," Jobs said.

Jobs lembrou-se do incidente vividamente porque foi a primeira vez que percebeu que seu pai não sabia tudo.

his thirties or forties able to really contribute something amazing," Jobs declared as he was about to turn thirty. That held true for Jobs in his thirties, during the decade that began with his ouster from Apple in 1985. But after turning forty in 1995, he flourished.

Jobs recalled the incident vividly because it was his first realization that his father did not know everything.

more emphasis was placed on independent thought than on punditry, and young people saw the teacher not as a figure of authority, but, alongside the student, a man of distinct personality.