Quotes about Personal Growth

Marks usually reward the most docile students, those who conform to their teachers' opinions. There's nothing competitive about learning, it's something everyone does for himself alone.

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It is a rare person who can cut himself off from mediate and immediate relations with others for long spaces of time without undergoing a deterioration in personality.

Your only nobility is being better than who you were yesterday.

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The growth and development of people is the highest calling of leadership.

Romantic Love delivers us into the passionate arms of someone who will ultimately trigger the same frustrations we had with our parents, but for the best possible reason! Doing so brings our childhood wounds to the surface so they can be healed.

To live remains an art which everyone must learn, and which no one can teach.

For every fresh stage in our lives we need a fresh education, and there is no stage for which so little educational preparation is made as that which follows the reproductive period.

I spend so much time with the brightest and most talented and well-rounded people. I've had the privilege of having long and very intellectual conversations with people, and sometimes I just sit there and listen. It's like a better version of a class. Even though I'm not sitting at a desk and in school, I'm still learning all the time.

From 18 to 22, I was alone, living in L.A. with a bunch of friends, partying.

you want to avoid pain in your dating relationships, you are going to have to make a change. You can't take the same path and expect a different outcome. You must take a totally new course.

Have lunch, have coffee, and continue to work hard on the things that won't dry up and blow away: Your health, your career, your little art projects or poems or essays, your odd new half-interests, the complicated folds of your sensitivity and your darkness, and your belief in a world that wants you to be happy.

When is it okay to decide that you don't need to do your best? That you have built enough character for one lifetime?

You are the engine to your love of another so love steadily and your pace will last until that love needs to fix you.

When you are born and put into your crib, the whole world sticks their heads over the tops of the bars. They give you a name and they have all sorts of different ideas about you. … But your task is to become something much more unique and surprising than anyone your parents could ever imagine you to be. You have to know that the life you have is completely yours.

Mental illness didn't really change people. It just made them more of who they were going to be anyway. Mental illness was less like obliteration, more like italics.

Helder said the goal of therapy was to make a container to hold all the disparate selves. I was going to need a big container. One that could hold hordes.

I'll have to figure it out for myself. That's thge problem with life. It's not really a spectator sport.

Unhappiness isn't the worst thing in the world. It doesn't last forever and it usually teaches you something about yourself.

Like all creations, I have come to understand that the messages I received have their own path to follow, and their own timing in which they needed to be set free.

Sometimes when I remember we aren't the same person, it shocks me.

Not much of what I value in our lives is easy.