Quotes about Personal Growth

When I became religious, it was full-force for me. And, through the lifestyle of being out on the road with non-Jewish musicians, in non-Jewish nightclubs and going all over the world - getting out of the shtetl - opened me up to having experiences that other religious men might not have to think or worry about.

'Certainly Men of a Certain Age' was different for me and allowed people to see me in a different light. Maybe that opened up minds a little bit.

I had a teacher who recommended I take improv classes in Chicago - I'm from Evanston, Illinois - so I did improv classes at Improv Olympic, and that kind of opened me up.

'Dancing With the Stars' was fun, and it opened me up to dancing.

Getting expelled from secondary school and going to a more arty-farty college gave me the incentive to perform and opened some doors.

I've opened throughout most of my career at Worcester. I understand there are guys in the team who have opened for a long time, more than me, with better records than me.

Sonya has opened up a huge light for me. Now that we travel so much together around the world, she's helped me open up and be so involved in the LGBTQ community.

My character in 'Mr. Holland's Opus' was kind of coming of age, learning about a world that was opening up to her.

There's no way in the world I would have thought about opening New York Fashion Week or walking in London.

I haven't been that great at attending my own openings. Still, I'm learning to enjoy this a lot more than I used to.

In my humble opinion, the ages 22 to about 27 are the most critical years of your adult life. It's your time to gestate in the cocoon of becoming.

JACK You're quite perfect, Miss Fairfax. GWENDOLEN Oh! I hope I am not that. It would leave no room for developments, and I intend to develop in many directions.

The trouble with women is, that when they grow up, they turn into their mothers. The trouble with men is, that they don't.

What you read when you don't have to will determine what you will be when you can't help it.

Ah! this morning! You have lived since then!

Not that the path was smooth and pothole free. But still, it was my path, and like me, it was bound to be unique. -Zoey

Change can be weird or even queer. But change has to happen for things to grow--for us to grow. And change isn't so bad when you're not in it alone.

I did not rush in with the vim I would have displayed a year or so earlier, before Life had made me the grim, suspicious man I am to-day:

This whole business of jacking up the soul is one that varies according to what Jeeves calls the psychology of the individual, some being all for it, others not. You take me, for instance. I don't say I've got much of a soul, but, such as it is, I'm perfectly satisfied with the little chap. I don't want people fooling about with it. 'Leave it alone,' I say. 'Don't touch it. I like it the way it is.

Die Slowly' by Pablo Neruda: He who does not travel, who does not read, who does not listen to music, who does not find grace in himself, she who does not find grace in herself, dies slowly.

Le déracinement pour l'être humain est une frustration qui, d'une manière ou d'une autre, atrophie la clarté de son âme.

Because just as everybody is not meant to be a size 4, we all are meant to be different sizes at different times in our lives we are meant to eat different things at different moments. our needs shift as life shifts.

You will not break loose until you realize that you yourself forge the chains that bind you." —ARTEN IN THE DISAPPEARANCE OF THE UNIVERSE, BY GARY RENARD In

When I decided to leave was when I learned and accepted that I can't change people, I can't save people, only love them. I can only change myself and my circumstances