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Quotes about Personal Growth

They say everything you go through in your childhood builds character and inner strength.
~ Curtis Joseph
There are people we treat wrong and later we're prepared to treat other people right. Perhaps this sounds mercenary, but I feel grateful for these trial relationships, and I would like to think it all evens out - surely, unknowingly, I have served as practice for other people.
~ Curtis Sittenfeld
If there was a free-floating feeling, I took it on and tried to work it out.
~ Unknown
Your imprisoned self. If a trauma was really big or hurtful, the energy of it locks us into the age we were when we experienced it. That part of us never gets to grow up, to stretch, grow, and fly. She or he is incarcerated in the energetic fibers created by the people or situation that injured us. We must rescue this hidden, trapped self in order to release the negative energies keeping him or her in prison.
~ Unknown
But doing others' work for them, even emotional work, robs them of the right to feel their feelings and heal their own pain and issues. We can only learn from our own problems; we can heal only issues that are our own. Think about how different you'd feel if you were free of all those shoulds and instead focused on your own coulds. That's the goal of establishing the correct energetic boundaries.
~ Unknown
What I learned from this experience was that you can't control others' emotions. Nor can you heal or fix emotions that aren't your own. They stay stuck in or around you and are impossible to dissolve.
~ Unknown
If you bring forth what is within you, what you have will save you. If you do not have that within you, what you do not have within you will kill you.
~ Cynthia Bourgeault
You're tall enough when you can reach the lightswitch.
~ Unknown
Life is a maze in which we take the wrong turning before we have learnt to walk.
~ Cyril Connolly
Why not let Frances have a holiday?" inquired ?r. Wheeler, who was sick to death of the eternal argument. "It will do her good to be on her own for a bit." "On her own!" screamed Mrs. Wheeler. "Henry, what nonsense you talk! How can she go and live in a hotel by herself?" "I'm twenty-five," said Frances desperately. "I can look after myself perfectly well. I want a holiday . . . I've never had a holiday in my life.
~ D.E. Stevenson
I truly believe that when you've found the one you're searching for, you become a better version of yourself. You're better for it.
~ Hunter Hayes
The best work we can ever do in this world is work on being the greatest version of ourselves so we can continue to give the highest version of this to others.
~ Grace Gealey
I just want to be the best version of me.
~ Austin Seferian-Jenkins
It's up to you to define your own brand of leadership and your own version of success.
~ Peggy Johnson
If you are a human being in modern society on planet Earth, you need money to do pretty much everything, especially to grow into a more expansive version of yourself.
~ Jen Sincero
I wake up every morning trying to be a new, better person and version of myself. I never try and be the same thing. So that's what's going to be hard for girls to keep up with me, because I'm always ever-evolving my style.
~ Rose Namajunas
I prefer stories about people who are, in a sense, trying to find better versions of themselves.
~ Curtis Hanson
I want to develop a championship culture that's filled with high-character people that are dedicated to becoming the best versions of themselves.
~ Matt LaFleur
When I moved to New York, I started switching fragrances. Between different seasons I would change fragrance, or if I was going out for a big fancy night versus going out in the daytime. But I also found that I was changing and growing so much.
~ Blake Lively
To me, I will be a stronger person if I'm moving forward, doing the work I want, and continue to drive: force the purpose that I want to create versus doing what other people think I should be doing, which is never a way to live.
~ Payal Kadakia
I really don't focus on the competition at all. Like even on the football field it's me versus me.
~ Marquise Goodwin
My career has never really been a vertical kind of thing. I mean, it's always been a bit difficult for me.
~ Holly Hunter
From the vertigo, I found out how far I can push myself physically and also mentally.
~ Jason Day
See, life is a journey and every chapter is very interesting.
~ Zeenat Aman