Quotes about Personal Growth

Each difference in a relationship represents an opportunity for the participants to grow and stretch.

I want to understand about change--I don't just want to be at the mercy of it. I feel like I'm waking up inside. I want to know about history. I have all this new information about people like me down through the ages, but I don't know anything about the ages.

Ed," I said, "I really fucked up this time" "Nah," she reassured me, "you just got a little more growing up to do." "I don't know if i can do it," I told her. My friend laughed. "You got no choice.

When you're feeling your worst, that's when you get to know yourself the best.

Who we are and who we are becoming is formed as much, if not more, by our unique way of responding.

Life is like a school; one can learn, one can graduate, one can skip a grade or stay behind.

Grief, after all, is like smoking in a damp country — what was at first a necessity becomes afterwards an indulgence.

So suffering is rough and hard to bear; but it hides beneath it discipline, education, possibilities, which not only leave us nobler, but perfect us to help others.

It was funny how just when you thought you knew yourself through and through, you stumbled on a new kind of strength, a fresh reserve of power inside you that you never knew you had, and all at once you found yourself burning a little brighter and hotter than you ever had before.

When he graduated he'd thought life was going to be like a novel, starring him on his own personal hero's journey, and that the world would provide him with an endless series of evils to triumph over and life lessons to learn. It took him a while to figure out that wasn't how it worked.

Some people need their families to become who they're supposed to be. And there's nothing wrong with that. But there are other ways to do it.

Maybe this was the only way it could have gone. You didn't get the quest you wanted, you got the one you could do.

But at the same time I could feel the ordeal remaking me. You know? Like the desert itself was smelting me, melting away weaknesses and impurities and extracting what was hard and true.

being around him wasn't good for Quentin. He could feel himself regressing in the direction of an adolescent tantrum—it was like trying to talk to his parents. He lost all perspective on who he was and how far he'd come.

He wasn't very far from the bitter, angry teenager he'd been in Brooklyn, before this all started, and thank God for that. But the funny thing was that after all this time he still didn't think that that miserable teenager had been wrong. He didn't disagree with him -he still felt solidarity with him in major points

Alice wasn't just the competition, someone whose only purpose in life was to succeed and by doing so subtract from his happiness. She was a person with her own hopes and feelings and nightmares. In her own way she was as lost as he was.

You really are a child, aren't you? You're obviously not enough of a man to have a real relationship. You're not even enough of a man to end a real relationship. Do I have to do absolutely everything for you?

Tothom vol canviar el món, però ningú pensa a canviar-se ell mateix

It's not what you are, it's what you don't become that hurts.

To become a full human being is nothing less than a lifetime's task.

What keeps me going are my learnings, which I would rather call my 'experience,' and my urge to explore.

I do feel even though now I'm acting, I still feel like I'm going to do a lot of other things, like write a book or multiple books, maybe a children's book - just random things that I feel like I want to do, that I have an urge to do in that moment.

The good and bad things are what form us as people... change makes us grow.

Time does not change us. It just unfolds us.