Quotes about Personal Growth

Si quieres cambiar el mundo, primero intenta mejorar, hacer un cambio dentro de ti. Así contribuirás a cambiar a tu familia y a partir de ahí el cambio se expandirá - Dalai Lama.

After all, I was only eighteen then. I'm almost twenty now. I learned lots about narrative structure in my Honors English classes so I know what I'm doing.

The answer can't be found in books - or be solved by bringing it to other people. Not unless you want to remain a child all your life. You've got to find the answer inside you - feel the right thing to do. Charlie, you've got to learn to trust yourself

That's the most important thing. If I keep reading, maybe I can hold my own.

Unlike Charlie, I was incapable of making friends or thinking about other people and their problems. I was interested in myself, and myself only. Fr one long moment in that mirror I had seen myself through Charlie's eyes - looked down at myself and saw what I had really become. And I was ashamed.

That's the most important thing. If I keep reading, maybe I can hold my own.

I see now that the path I choose through that maze makes me what I am. I am not only a thing, but also a way of being—

Somehow I've become separated emotionally from everyone and everything. And what I was really searching for out there in the dark streets—the last damned place I could ever find it—was a way to make myself a part of people again emotionally, while still retaining my freedom intellectually. I've got to grow up. For me it means everything. . . .

Não sou apenas uma coisa, mas também uma maneira de ser – uma das muitas maneiras –, e saber os caminhos que percorri e os que me restam vai me ajudar a entender o que estou me tornando.

If your smart you can have lots of frends to talk to and you never get lonley by yourself all the time.

The humble, self-effacing Charlie you were all talking about a while ago is just waiting patiently. I'll admit I'm like him in a number of ways, but humility and self-effacement are not among them. I've learned how little they get a person in this world.

Humility and self-effacement ... get a person [little] in this life.

This day was good for me. I've got to stop this childish worrying about myself—my past and my future. Let me give something of myself to others. I've got to use my knowledge and skills to work in the field of increasing human intelligence.

Human beings thrive when they are growing and developing and this requires discipline. Discipline and accountability keep us alive.

However many people you know now, you will always need to know more. You want to connect with as many people as possible to increase your chances of meeting the right people who will change your personal and professional life.

Arts and disciplines of that kind are fundamentally selfish; they're all designed to benefit the pupil—not the world - Ishmael

I find that the longer I live, the more I worry about people and the less I worry about rules.

When I was younger, I really struggled with confidence.

An education is not so much about making a living as making a person.

Responsibility educates.

Don't think about your errors or failures; otherwise, you'll never do a thing.

I am a product of my failures.

There was definitely a moment when something quite magical happened and we both agree that it transformed our relationship.

I think I'm a better person because of my family.