Quotes about Personal Growth

In the darkest part of our hearts, we used to think that maybe they were right. We don't think that anymore.

It's always easy to blame other people for holding you back. But sometimes, the only person holding you back is . . . well . . . you.

The truth is that over time, the vessel expands as well. You grow. Your life widens.

transient, adj. In school, the year was the marker. Fifth grade. Senior year of high school. Sophomore year of college. Then after, the jobs were the marker. That office, this desk. But now that school is over and I've been working at the same desk for longer than I can truly believe, I realize: You have become the marker. This is your era. And it's only if it goes on and on that I will have to look for other ways to identify the time.

The whole point of love isn't to have fun times without hard times, to have someone who is fine with who you are and doesn't challenge you to be even better than that. The whole point of love isn't to be the other person's solution or answer or cure. The whole point of love is to help them find what they need, in any way you can. What we have - it's definitely not normal. But the whole point of love is to write your own version of normal, and that is exactly what we're going to do. -Rhiannon

I WILL BE A BETTER PERSON. I know it's hard to believe. From me. From the bitch who got pummeled with an orange tray. But I knew - I hadn't become the worst kind of person yeat. I had to believe that. [...] Being a bitch is easy. It's finding the alternative that's hard.

I am a solo flier looking out over the land of Boyfriends and Girlfriends. I am three notes in the middle of a song.

It's my way of telling her that even though I haven't experienced so many things, I have managed to have a life.

Yes, our situations are different. But we're both human, and that means we both have the nearly infinite potential to mess things up, and need a nearly infinite amount of patience and grace in order to be the people we should be.

But I have lived myself for too many years. I know exactly how hard I am.

Five years behind me, but somehow with his shit together.

Answerless questions can destroy. Move on. - A

We are who we are, I said. And we'll be who we'll be. A book can make us feel that, but it can't invent that. It's already inside us.

We are who we are, and we'll be who we'll be. A book can make us feel that, but it can't invent that. It's already inside us.

If you wan to live within the definition of your own truth, you have to choose to go through the initially painful and ultimately comforting process of finding it -A

I'm still me, and eventually he will see that.

It's just nice to see you out from his shadow. Because things don't grow in shadows, you know? So it was frustrating to see you standing there... and really cool to see you step out of it. I don't know who this new guy is, but make sure when you're with him you're not standing in his shadow. Stand where everyone can see you.

Budowanie charakteru nie polega na wymyÅ›laniu siÄ™ na nowo, a na dokÅ'adaniu do tego, co ju? masz. Do tych elementów, które sÄ… trwaÅ'e i mocne. Do tego, co kochasz.

Even if I didn't believe I was the kind of person who could stand up to the people who hated me, I wanted to be the kind of person who would.

Only when you are challenged—and only when you challenge yourself—do you discover what truly matters.

Cuando eres amiga de alguien desde hace tiempo, es fácil pensar que te pertenece, como si la versión de la persona de la que te hiciste amiga fuera la única real. Si de pequeña no le gustaban los guisantes, nunca le gustarán, y si de repente cambia de idea y le encantan, es que se está engañando, ocultando su odio por los guisantes, fingiendo ser alguien que no es.

Do you know what I learned? I learned that leaving is bullshit. Because you always take yourself wherever you go.

I've tried breaking things to feel better and found that it only feels better while things are breaking.

You leave the place you're from, you have to. But you also need to have it stay in you for a long time. It is your center.