Quotes about Personal Growth

We can all change the people around us by changing ourselves.

de que o objetivo do ambientalismo não tem a ver com tentar usar menos, mas antes com tentar ser mais. Não tem a ver com beneficiarmos de menos coisas, mas antes com darmos aquilo que de melhor há dentro de nós. O ambientalismo não tem a ver com o ambiente. Tem a ver com as pessoas. Tem a ver com o sonho de uma vida melhor para as pessoas.

A man begins cutting his wisdom teeth the first time he bites off more than he can chew.

I am sure I'd have made a better all-around man if I hadn't lost so much time just making a living.

Don´t loose the lesson, but don´t miss it either.

As the time goes by, you change, your learn new things, your attitude is different. For the moment, I'm still enjoying ski racing so much that it would be difficult for me to think about ending my career.

Becoming our own person, breaking free from our "ought selves"—the identity molded by important people in our lives—is at the heart of the transition process.7 So is ridding ourselves of an unhealthy overidentification with the organizations that employ us, a harder-to-recognize but equally problematic self-definition.

Heute geht es mir besser, ich bin fast ein Mensch.

So many schools are getting rid of music programs and it's really sad because I know that when I started singing and stuff it was something that I always wanted to do and I never believed in myself to be able to do it.

If you knew at twenty what you know at thirty-five, what a marvellous life you could have; on the other hand, you might find that you couldn't be bothered to have any life at all.

In a generation everything can change.

One can learn from that, he thinks.

But what galled our audience, really, is the fact that our friendship grew out of wanting to interest each other. We wanted the world to have no part in it.

There is nothing noble about being superior to some other person. The true nobility is in being superior to your previous self.

True nobility is in being superior to your previous self.

And any painful memories I have today will be nourishment that makes me a stronger person tomorrow! It's the same for everybody! Human beings have that power within themselves! So walk strong! And I'll keep walking strong too!

Since the day I first met you, you've given me so many precious things. If I hadn't met you, I would never have become the person I am today.

Can you become a man without becoming your father?

How will I know when I've learned it, since I don't know it now?" he asks. The question sounds like a riddle. "Come back when returning feels like a hard choice instead of an easy one," I answer finally.

I heard you've been having some problems with your girlfriend." Headmistress Northcutt says. "No," I say. "Not at all." Audrey broke up with me after the winter holiday, exhausted by my moodiness. It's impossible to have problems with a girlfriend who's no longer mine.

We have lived in our armor for so long, you and I. And now I am not sure if either of us knows how to remove it." — "I think of his riddle. How do people like us take off our armor? One piece at a time.

And then I had to learn how to be a person all the time. I tried to be, for you.

I am a solitary creature, fated to be one and better as one. Forgetting that is what got me into trouble.

But for one final night, he's the father I remember best, the one in whose shadow I have- for better or worse- become what I am.