Quotes about Personal Growth

It's very important that we don't make the same mistakes twice. That's a big part of improvement.

I really believe I'm no different from anyone else. I just had a few challenges I had to learn from at a very early age.

My brothers and sisters started having children at a very early age, and I was just there all alone at one point, like, 'What do I do?' And I thought the only thing I can do is create mine, make my family, and I did that.

I honestly didn't always want kids - for a very long time, it just wasn't a path I saw myself on. I wasn't even sure I wanted to get married!

I think I lost my sense of identity when I was married. I know I did. And it took me a very long time to regain it and find out who I was.

I have known Casemiro for a very long time and in those years he has gained a lot of experience.

I was an empty vessel just floating through L.A. and raising children, and I was doing it alone. When my relationship started blossoming with Angie and then when we got engaged, I knew I wanted to get back to my roots of where I came from and what I grew up in.

I did Vibe, and I felt old and paternal. I've got ties older than people in that audience. I had a talk with myself. I said, You've got to deal with this better.

Now when I travel, I'm more adventurous. If I find myself creeping back into that 'not going to leave the hotel' vibe, I take baby steps, like having a nice dinner on my own or getting my nails done.

I just got so fed up with the bad vibes. I didn't care if it was the Beatles; I was getting out.

Creating the album 'VIBES' has been the biggest life lesson I have ever learned.

I don't have any bad vibes with LSU. I learned so much there. I experienced so much there. I had so much fun. I met great people.

I feel like I've come out of this grown up, maybe because I live through the character vicariously and she grows up so much during the course of this story.

For me, growing up, I felt like there was something fatally and tragically flawed in my nature and that it was my duty to try to avoid falling for that vice.

My mom was practically in the vice principal's office all the time! Now I really feel sorry that my mom had to go through such embarrassment, but I was never a harmful person.

I am confident in saying that Oberlin did more for me than vice versa. I took a fantastic class in religion, which led me to archaeology, which got me to the Middle East, which led me to international relations, which launched me on my career.

Being with someone makes you happier and more content as a human being and takes your personality to greater heights and vice versa. And I don't think that's being too demanding.

We make a ladder for ourselves of our vices, if we trample those same vices underfoot.

A lot of vices that I've had over the years were always to make up for some sort of character deficiency, one of them being shyness.

I am not a victim of emotional conflicts. I am human.

I can only say, don't be a victim of stress and distress. Just go out in the world and strive what you want to become.

My time on television began, and I started playing victims. I did about 10 or 12 years of them, which gets boring, right?

Just as long as something is gained, a lesson is learned. I do like those. The more quiet victories are always great.

Victory in physical battles requires strength, muscles, and skill; but the fight is never tougher and victory is never sweeter than in the battles over self.