Quotes about Personal Growth

You're stuck with yourself, so you might as well try and be someone you can stand to live with.

This is awful," Sally said. "Why should it be so painful?" "Because you don't realize how important your human landscape is until bits drop away." He gripped her hand. "It's worse when you get older. In your twenties, you never think—

Some lessons can't be taught, they simply have to be learned.

We make messes of our lives, but every now and then, we manage to do something that's exactly right. The challenge is figuring out which is which.

Who I am, and what I am capable of doing has always managed to surprise me.

The only person who suffers, when you squirrel alway all that hate, is you.

I don't want to make the same mistake twice. I don't want to tell myself it's over when it's not.

In the space between yes and no, there is a lifetime. It's the difference between the path you walk and one you leave behind; it's the gap between who you thought you could be and who you really are; it's the legroom for the lies you will tell yourself in the future.

until you have a baby, you don't even realize how much you were missing one

you never forget your first fall.

I have come to believe that this life I'm wearing will never really fit.

The point is, if someone abandons you, it may be less about you and more about them.

We make messes of our lives, but every now and then, we manage to do something that's exactly right. The challenge is figuring out which is which.

Because the more you changed, the less of you there was.

Everyone wants their kid to grow up and go to Harvard or be a quarterback for the Patriots. No one ever looks at their baby and thinks, Oh, I hope my kid grows up and becomes a freak. I hope he gets to school every day and prays he won't catch anyone's attention. But you know what? Kids grow up like that every single day.

The essence of education is not to get a certificate or job but, to be a holistically developed person who can positively impact the society.

Learn from your mistakes and don't do the same.

It was a horrible process to get to this. It took me my whole life. If you're new at this — and by 'new at it, ' I mean 15 years in, or even 20 — you're just starting to get traction.

With determination and hard work, you will grow to a position capable of advising others.

The highest reward for man's toil is not what he gets for it but what he becomes by it.

I cleaned up my act, and I made this rap thing work for me. I thought people would respect me for that. But instead, it's, 'Oh, he's sold all these records, and now he thinks he's all that.'

Today I know that there is still work to be done, but along the way my I am achieving my dreams.

Many things matter other than our measured intelligence, so let's get to work on them.

I've always had an enormous sense of independence. But I know that sometimes I can be too independent. It is important to be able to share your life - so that is a work in progress for me.