Quotes about Personal Growth

A month alone would make me so happy. Not good for my dating prospects.

When you are offended at anyone's fault, turn to yourself and study your own failings. By attending to them, you will forget your anger and learn to live wisely.

I'm so proud of myself. I worked with anger, with the darkest things in the world.

If you get angry easily, it may be because the seed of anger in you has been watered frequently over many years, and unfortunately you have allowed it or even encouraged it to be watered.

Getting even with somebody is no way to get ahead of anybody.

But he learned what he had to, and he changed, and so he made himself exceptional.

Mat felt the change upon himself. Now he was the oldest, and the longest memory was his. Now between him and the grave stood no other man. From here on he would find the way for himself.

If being a girl is a frontier all its own, what is the manifest destiny?

Great men speak to us only so far as we have ears and souls to hear them; only so far as we have in us the roots, at least, of that which flowers out in them.

The man who does not wish to be merely one of the mass only needs to cease to be easy on himself.

And indeed, great men speak to us only so far as we have ears and souls to hear them; only so far as we have in us the roots, at least, of that which flowers out in them.

we must not expect the world to improve much faster than ourselves

Frankl asserts that the potentialities of life are not indifferent possibilities, but must be seen in the light of meaning and values. Such meaning and values cannot be imposed; each individual must seek out for himself or herself the meaning of each situation and the implications the present moment may have for the future.

A man can't soar too high, when he flies with his own wings.

No man ever became great or good except through many and great mistakes.

A writer needs three things, experience, observation, and imagination, any two of which, at times any one of which, can supply the lack of the others.

Don't bother just to be better than your contemporaries or predecessors. Try to be better than yourself.

None of us grew but the business.

There's folks you just don't need. You're better off without em. Your life is just a little better because they ain't in it.

He'd made the classic mistake, the one he'd sworn he'd never make.

It wasn't until I was 37 that I grasped the great truth that you've got to write your own books and nobody else's, and then everything followed from there.

any experience is profitable if you allow it to be, all actions are profitable, no matter how badly you may suffer from them.

You're certainly blooming, Billy. Before my very eyes. I just don't know into what.

do every day or two something for no other reason that you would rather not do it, so that when the hour of dire need draws nigh, it may find you not unnerved and untrained to stand the test.