Quotes about Personal Growth

Mentoring someone is not creating them in your own image, but giving them the opportunity to create themselves.

Orrin Woodward relates this principle to people who claim to have thirty years of work experience, when actually in many cases, they merely have one year of experience thirty times over.

and you start wondering whether that badness you've seen in yourself is really all that bad at all..." "Maybe that's just developing as a person, Sarah" I sighed, and look out at Little Bee "Well" I said. "Maybe this is a developing world.

Experience is the only teacher," Hey-Soos says. "Even if I could have told you, it would have been a lecture. Why do you think kids don't listen to their parents, or people don't leave churches and do what the preacher tells them?

Love, in the universal sense, is unconditional acceptance. In the individual sense, the one-on-one sense, try this: we can say we love each other if my life is better because you're in it and your life is better because I'm in it. The intensity of the love is weighted by how much better.

Prayer changes the person who prays.

The world is your oyster. It's up to you to find the pearls.

we all have the power of choice in determining who we ultimately become. This

I have found that sometimes in the quest for knowledge, you must go backward before you can move forward" -Abia

I got together with Sylvère because I saw how I could help him get his life together. I'm drawn to you cause I see how you can help me take my life apart...

The teacher's job is to challenge the student to release their own potential.

People submit too easily to change from others. And yet, for some reason, whenever they consider changing themselves, the focus is always on what they are giving up, never what they are about to gain

I don't miss my father, but without his shackles to strain against, the world is terrifying and vast. I have lost a kind of purpose, a reason to prove myself.

Therapy's like going to the gym.

It's mistakes that make us who we are.

I think all the knowledge and all the travels that I've done, I'm going to do a lot of great work in the future.

the major reason for setting a goal is for what it makes of you to accomplish it. What it makes of you will always be the far greater value than the goal you achieve.

ser adulta consistía en ese juego: perderse de vista a sí misma

I often wonder if the bill is yet to be presented during our lifetime. If not, I must present it to myself.

It's really ridiculous to assume that people are improved by hearing someone tell the truth about them.

I met my grandfather just before he died, and it was the first time that I had seen Dad with a relative of his. It was interesting to see my own father as a son and the body language and alteration in attitude that comes with that, and it sort of changed our relationship for the better.

To give so much time to improving yourself that you have no time to criticize others.

Promise yourself to be so strong that nothing can disturb your peace of mind. Look at the sunny side of everything & and make your optimisom come true. Think only of the best, work only for the best. Forget the mistakes of the past & press on the greater achievements of the future. Give so much time to the improvement of yourself that you have no time to critize others. Live in the faith that the whole world is on your side as long as you are true to the best that is in you.

This mind of ours, like the earth beneath our feet, teems with exhaustless riches. The conditions of development only are needed.