Quotes about Personal Growth

rid myself of what was no longer serving me. I stood up for myself and my own worth. I declared that I deserved to be treated better, and that had to start in the only place I have any control over: how I treat myself. The fact that you are entitled to your hurt, grief, and defensiveness doesn't mean it's working for you.

the sooner you give up on them and choose you, the healthier, happier, and more effective you will become.

Every morning before you get out of bed, say the following: "I expand in abundance, success, and love every day as I inspire those around me to do the same.

Remember…you always have a choice to be better. You always have a choice to…to pick the right path." She smiled sadly. "Even if that choice comes a little late.

It takes courage to create your own identity, to stop believing old stories about who you are or that limit who you can be.

The artists I look up to are the ones who push their own limits.

I've found that doing interviews forces you to face yourself; I'm constantly having to search within myself, to see why I do certain things.

Pain is rewarding, in every capacity.

To the sky, I rise / Spread my wings, and fly / I leave the past behind / And say goodbye to the scared child inside / I sing for freedom, and for love / I look at my reflection / Embrace the woman I've become / The unbreakable lotus in me / I now set free

My parent's divorce and hard times at school, all those things combined to mold me, to make me grow up quicker. And it gave me the drive to pursue my dreams that I wouldn't necessarily have had otherwise.

It is good to test your limits now and then, learn what the body is capable of, what you can endure.

Christina Baker Kline

You can live for a long time inside the shell you were born in. But one day it'll become too small." "Then

The questions on the assignment sheet are: What did you choose to bring with you to the next place? What did you leave behind? What insights did you gain about what's important? Molly's kind of into the idea of the project, but she doesn't want to interview Ralph or—God forbid—Dina.

Every night I fell asleep to a different Beatles album. So I'm very familiar with the Beatles Ringo was my favorite Beatle until I grew up and then changed. I made the switch over to George Harrison just in time to regain my cool.

The problem is not that they haven't gone far enough, but that they've brought themselves along.

Know that the qualities you admire in others are the qualities you need to recognize and nurture inside yourself.

When the First Lady is a he--and the President is me It's a switch--it's a twist--it's a change Still these things would shock most people But I don't really know why, For the world is full of changes--who knows this more than I!

I think I'm basically one and the same person I was in the earlier part of my life--perhaps calmer, more accepting and certainly happier.

to be a person is to be constantly engaged in making yourself into that person

I used to be driven, but I pulled over.

When I got the Nobel Prize I said to myself that it had made me neither smarter nor more stupid.

Resolution number one: Obviously will lose twenty pounds. Number two: Always put last night's panties in the laundry basket. Equally important, will find sensible boyfriend to go out with and not continue to form romantic attachments to any of the following: alcoholics, workaholics, commitment phobic's, peeping toms, megalomaniacs, emotional fuckwits or perverts. And especially will not fantasize about a particular person who embodies all these things

Sink into morbid, cynical reflection on how much romantic heartbreak is to do with ego and miffed pride rather than actual loss