Quotes about Personal Growth

And we can't all just get along. Rather, we have to become the kinds of persons who can get along. As a major part of this, our epidermal responses have to be changed in such a way that the fire and the fight doesn't start almost immediately when we are "rubbed the wrong way." Solitude and silence give us a place to begin the necessary changes, though they are not a place to stop.

Things good and bad will happen to us, of course. But what our life amounts to, at least for those who reach full age, is largely, if not entirely, a matter of what we become within.

Great power requires great character if it is to be a blessing and not a curse, and that character is something we only grow toward.

spiritual formation is a matter of reworking all aspects of the self.

Anyone who is not a continual student of Jesus, and who nevertheless reads the great promises of the Bible as if they were for him or her, is like someone trying to cash a check on another person's account. At best, it succeeds only sporadically.

great part of our growth includes disengaging from the expectations of others.

Don't spend...but mend yourself...

Abandon the search for God... instead, take yourself as the starting place.

So you mean that even having the power to interfere and prevent your child feel pain, you would choose to show their love letting him learn his own lessons? - Sure, pain is part of growing up. It's how we learn. The camerlegno shook his head. - Exactly. p.89

Sometimes you need to go up...to go down.

When you become fully responisble for your life, you can become fully human; once you become human, you may discover what it mens to be a warrior.

It feels nice to be comfortable, but if we're comfortable all the time, we miss out on the chance to stretch and grow.

Life is about refinement, not perfection. And you still have refining to do.

the peaceful warrior's greatest battles don't lie in the external world, but within us. These inner hurdles generate most of the obstacles and difficulties we encounter in daily life. They carry greater danger than outer problems, because they slip, unseen and unnoticed, into our every endeavor.

First mountains are mountains and rivers are rivers. Than mountains are no longer mountains and rivers are no longer rivers. Finally mountains are mountains and rivers are rivers.

As most of us have intuitively learned, sexuality best serves our spiritual evolution within a single, committed relationship.

It's painful to conclude that, if not for your parents' limitations, you might have grown up happier, with healthier relationships and a less troubled life. Guilt, anger, fear, sadness, and love make relationships with our parents among the most complicated in our lives.

During this time I quit attending classes at the university, and my grades rose from four Fs to three Bs and an A.

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The bargain was this: Admit the anxiety as an essential part of yourself and in exchange that anxiety will be converted into energy, unstable but manageable. Stop with the self-flagellating and become yourself, with scars and tics.

It's not the highs along the way that matter. It's who you become.

An altered trait—a new characteristic that arises from a meditation practice—endures apart from meditation itself.

An artful critique focuses on what a person has done and can do rather than reading a mark of character into a job poorly done. As Larson observes, "A character attack—calling someone stupid or incompetent—misses the point. You immediately put him on the defensive, so that he's no longer receptive to what you have to tell him about how to do things better.