Quotes about Personal Growth

The greatest discovery of our generation is that human beings can alter their lives by altering their attitudes of mind. As you think, so shall you be.

Our colleges ought to have lit up in us a lasting relish for a better kind of man, a loss of appetite for mediocrities.

A classic unspoken agreement among escapees from a small town: don't look back, don't be each other's anchors, no nostalgia.

No shade tree? Blame not the sun, but yourself.

A man should choose a friend who is better than himself. There are plenty of acquaintances in the world; but very few real friends.

A gem is not polished without rubbing, nor a man perfected without trials.

A successful life is one that is lived through understanding and pursuing one's own path, not chasing after the dreams of others.

Nobody can teach me who I am.

You do not know me,' said Tortoise. 'I am a changed man. I have learned that a man who makes trouble for others makes trouble for himself.

What have you failed at this week?

If you're struggling to make a transition, create a defining moment that draws a dividing line between Old You and New You.

Buckingham has a fine series of books on making the most of your strengths rather than obsessing about your weaknesses.)

Learn to recognize your own scripts. Play with them, poke at them, disrupt them.

Self-understanding comes slowly. One of the few ways to accelerate it—to experience more crystallizing moments—is to stretch for insight.

If you attempt to build intimacy with a person before you've done the hard work of becoming a whole and healthy person, every relationship will be an attempt to complete the hole in your heart and the lack of what you don't have. That relationship will end in disaster."[1]

For isn't that what our homes are ultimately, our fantasies made corporeal, our secret selves exposed? The converse is also true: we grow to become that which we live within.

Wisdom that isn't distilled in our own crucible can't help

I knew now that love—no matter how deep—wasn't enough to transform another person: how they thought, what they believed. At best, we could only change ourselves.

That's how it is sometimes when we plunge into the depths of our lives. No one can accompany us, not even those who would give up their hearts for our happiness.

much. I knew now that love—no matter how deep—wasn't enough to transform another person: how they thought, what they believed. At best, we could only change ourselves.

If the heart chakra is overdeveloped and the solar plexus chakra is underdeveloped, there is a tendency that other people will take advantage of you, abuse and misuse you. If the solar plexus is overactivated, there is a tendency to be too selfish and may be even ruthless. To become psychologically healthy, the solar plexus chakra and heart chakra must be balancedly developed. This is balancing loving-kindness with self-interest.

See you spend your whole life fighting with your father and no time on making your own life. What will you do when he dies? Fight yourself?

Maybe, she thought, the reign of malicious sarcasm was over and she could be a good person again.

My mother used to talk about passages and, once in a while, about ordeals. We all have them; we are all shaped by them. She thought the key was to find the healing in the hurt.