Quotes about Personal Growth

Fanny Price leaves the poverty of her Portsmouth home to be brought up among the family of her

Scrivendo trovavo breve pace e mi sentivo ridiventare un uomo, uno come tutti, nè martire nè infame nè santo, uno di quelli che si fanno una famiglia, e guardano al futuro anzichè al passato. - Il sistema periodico

Sbagliare non era più un infortunio vagamente comico, che ti guasta un esame o ti abbassa il voto: sbagliare era come quando si va su roccia, un misurarsi, un accorgersi, uno scalino in su, che ti rende più valente e più adatto.

Quiet time is not an excuse for the lazy but a wise investment for the diligent.

No manliness no maturity! No discipline no discipleship! No sweat no sainthood!

I must acquire my own information, build my own knowledge, and, through experience, transform it to the treasured gold of wisdom.

I am not the Library's child! I must acquire my own information, build my own knowledge, and, through experience, transform it to the treasured gold of wisdom.

We're better off. But I don't know if the world's better off. I don't know if the two are the same thing.

The reward is in the risk. You can't stay hidden inside Grandpa's overprotective cloak forever. You've seemed like you needed to grow out of that for a while. Mom and Dad going away, and the red notebook, these things just helped. Now it's up to you to

If I were going to give you more advice that I myself can't seem to take, I would tell you that in order to build character, you don't invent a new self, you instead build on what's already there. The good parts. The things you love. As horrid as it sounds, at a certain point—i.e., the point we're at now—you build your character on the foundation of all the things you love.

I miss him a lot. And we text and talk all the time, so he never feels that far. But I'm also happy to have some distance, to feel that I'm becoming myself without having to worry if the relationship is exerting too much influence. It's good to have each other, but you also need to have your own people, your own experiences.

Mrs. Basil E.

I reveled in solitude. If Lily wanted to believe there was a somebody out there just for her, I wanted to believe that I could be somebody in here just for me.

And I've learned that letting people get close to you doesn't always lead to pain. Some people are actually worth a risk.

Our purpose in life is to grow in wisdom and in love.

Este elemento cognoscitivo puede ser una perla ya formada o una semilla que debe aún crecer; pero en cualquier caso, hay que buscarlo, cultivarlo, merecerlo, recibirlo. No está ahí; no es inmediatamente dado a todos. Es fruto de un proceso aunque éste no sea homogéneo o paulatino. Aunque pueda ser instantáneo como un relámpago, el mismo relámpago ha debido ser nube por mucho tiempo antes de revelarse como luz.

I am learning my way toward something that will make sense of my life, and I learn by going where I have to go, with whatever companions I am graced.

That's what life's all about: little by little, day by day, with excruciating stubbornness, each of us learning how to be less screwed up.

So many things in my continuing education are learned by going where I have to go and doing what I have to do. Therefore, my only answer is: I guess I'll find out.

ameliorated

The man you were still lives within you, repressed by the man you have struggled to become.

If there's nothing to learn because we know it all, what's the challenge, why would the effort matter, what would be the point.

GETTING TO KNOW ME

I'm Shelly Framington. But call me Sarah. I don't like who Shelly was, what she did.