Quotes about Personal Growth

Age is just a number, maturity is a choice.

I had a bit of a male menopause. It started at the age of 18 and continued until I was 45.

You know you've reached middle age when your weightlifting consists merely of standing up.

In the last few years everything I'd done up to sixty or so has seemed very childish.

We do not mature through age. We mature in awareness.

I was a pretty shy, lonely kid. I blossomed about age 17, when I went to college.

Middle age is when anything new in the way you feel is most likely a symptom.

Is someone different at age 18 or 60? I believe one stays the same.

Every age hath its own problem, and every soul its particular aspiration.

We in middle age require adventure.

I've experienced a lot for someone my age that a lot of people will be able to relate to.

At the age of 15 I began my singing lessons, and once I became a professional performer, I dove into acting.

I was initiated as a Buddhist monk at the age of 19, but I think that initiation is simply a starting point.

When I turned 40, I was like, huh. I accept myself more now. It was much more comforting.

I'm not really sure where that comes from, ... Maybe it's because I've lived more than most 25-year-olds. I left school at an early age, traveled a lot ... but I still have a far way to go.

I'm at the age most people are sending their kids off to college.

Age either transfigures or petrifies.

I started elocution lessons because I was being teased, and I had a brilliant drama teacher. At the age of 14, I appeared at the National Theatre in 'The Crucible.'

I wasn't always overweight. I was a skinny little punk of a kid with severe asthma. When I got married at the age of 22, I wore a cut-down size eight wedding gown.

I had friends but I was spending a great deal of my time alone and for me that was vital because there's an awful lot you learn about yourself when you're alone.

One has to discover everything for oneself. And get over it all alone.

There is lonely, and there is alone time. I have found that both have etched character upon my soul.

It is a great privilege to travel alone on the right path knowing at heart that one day millions too will travel on that same road!

When alone, concentrate on the fruits of the solitude, not on the poisons of it!