Quotes about Personal Growth

A woman's past need not predict her future. She can dance to new music if she chooses. Her own music. To hear the tune, she must only stop talking. To herself, I mean. We're always trying to persuade ourselves of things." I'm struck by the profoundness

Maybe there came a point in

I wished it were that simple... just read a map and suddenly we would know where we were meant to end up and how to get there. But growing up is never that easy, no matter what age you are.

Sooner or later, you have to shed your family's expectations and run the race on your own.

All you need do is ask, Jennia Beth Gibbs. No sense making a thief of yourself, now is there? You keep it . . . and remember that no matter how many wrong choices we've made in the past, we can always decide to make the right ones today. The past need not determine one moment of the future.

Education isn't for getting a job. It's about developing yourself as a human being.

Maybe you should write her a letter, Mia. In it, you could sort out what you feel, tell her your confusion. You could even apologize for that which you have no idea you've done if you want. Thank her for the great times you've just described to me. It would force her to acknowledge what she is doing here, and at the same time help you to find your way to some closure in it.

awkwardness or reservation. When had that stopped? They

The marriage didn't work out but the separation is great.

The beauty is that people often come here for the stretch, and leave with a lot more.

Child, child, do you not see? For each of us comes a time when we must be more than what we are.

Pip is an orphan who is given the chance to create his own self and destiny. Pip's experience also reminds us of the emigrant's experience. Each leaves behind the place he grew up in. Each strikes out on his own. Each is free to create himself anew. Each is also free to make mistakes...

The dilemma of choosing our identity is an ongoing progress that forces us…to decide consciously or unconsciously the direction in which we will expend our energy.

If you desire a man to tell you comfortable lies about your prowess, and so fetter any hope of true excellence, I'm sure you may find one anywhere. Not all prisons are made of iron bars. Some are made of feather beds.

Some people grow into their dreams, instead of out of them.

Choice is a determinant in personal development ... by my free acts I am making myself.

Not in the clamour of the crowded street, Not in the shouts and plaudits of the throng, But in ourselves, are triumph and defeat.

Everything I wanted before, I want twice as much now. And that doesn't mean material things; it means to explore more, to think more. Being an artist doesn't start because you're 21, and it doesn't end because you're 51. You are who you are until the day you die.

I'm not stupid. I would like to have some businesses that grow so I won't have to be out there on the road when I'm 44.

The only solid and lasting peace between a man and his wife is, doubtless, a separation.

Whoever is in a hurry shows that the thing he is about is too big for him

If you have an hour, will you not improve that hour, instead of idling it away?

no pierdas tiempo, hijo mio, en formar tu gusto, tus modales, tu mente y todo lo que has de tener; pues lo que, hasta cierto punto, seas a los veinte anos, eso, con poca diferencia, seras todo el resto de tu vida

Stop drowning your dreams by jumping into waters that you are unable to swim in.