Quotes about Personal Growth

Going back after a long time will make you mad, because the people you left behind do not like to think of you changed, will treat you as they always did, accuse you of being indifferent, when you are only different.

If I let them take away my demons, I'll have to give up what I've found.

The journey is not linear, it is always back and forth, denying the calendar, the wrinkles and lines of the body.

In the antiseptic world we try to purge ourselves of difficult things. Don't dwell on it, switch off the light and go home. But this is home. I have to be a home to myself. I am the place I come back to and I can't keep hiding difficult things in trunks. Soon the house will be full of trunks and I perched on top with the phone saying 'Yes, I'm fine, of course, I'm fine, everything's fine.' The trunks shudder

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The future is intact, still unredeemed, but the past is irredeemable. She is not who she thought she was.

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I told Mom that maybe I had made a terrible mistake, but mom said sometimes you have to get sicker before you can get better.

People say that when you return to the place where you grew up, it always seems smaller than you remember. ...but I don't know if it was because I had built it up in my memories or I had gotten bigger. Maybe both.

What I wanted to say was that I knew Eric would never try to steal my paycheck or throw me out the window, that I'd always been terrified I'd fall for a hard-drinking, hellraising, charismatic scoundrel like you, Dad, but I'd wound up with a man who was exactly the opposite.

I like what is in the work -- the chance to find yourself.

I only want to do the kind of work that I would like to go and see, that's going to teach me something new, that involves working with people I can learn something from and I can give something to.

The work keeps getting deeper, more honest. I continue to work on a piece until I feel it breathe on its own.

I never had to say to myself, 'OK now, I've got to grow up and work for a bank, or go and sell real estate.' I never had to make that kind of break.

I was a liberal arts junkie and I figured, well, I'll go work for somebody somewhere. All I knew was that I was going to have to come home and figure it out.

I feel like the same person, but I feel as if I need to work twice as much now.

I learned to write by writing. I tended to do anything as long as it felt like an adventure, and to stop when it felt like work, which meant that life did not feel like work.

Don't try to take on a new personality; it doesn't work.

I always thought of myself as a later bloomer, so I like some of my work more later than earlier.

Until the juice ferments a while in the cask, it isn't wine. If you wish your heart to be bright, you must do a little work.

A person is what is his life; if that person doesn't modify nothing inside himself, if he doesn't transform radically his life, if he doesn't work upon himself, then he is wasting miserably his time.

You shouldn't just work on your jump shot. You should work on being a better person, a better teammate, and a better friend.

Even the wisest man grows tense With some sort of violence Before he can accomplish fate, Know his work or choose his mate. Poet and sculptor, do the work, Nor let the modish painter shirk

A lot of people who start work at a very young age never grow up because they never got that opportunity to be a child, so they hold on to that and still do a lot of childish, silly things.