Quotes about Personal Growth

Some people try to turn back their odometers. Not me; I want people to know 'why' I look this way. I've traveled a long way, and some of the roads weren't paved.

As for me, I'm on a search and have been, I now realize, all my life - to find books to help me make sense of the world, to help me become a better person, to help me get my head around the big questions that I have and answer some of the small ones while I'm at it.

I think it's because it shows that people--or hobbits, as the case may be--can find strength they didn't know they had.

When we denigrate mediocrity, we discourage ourselves and others from trying new things. It would be great to be a great painter, but it's also great just to paint. Or sing or throw pots or knit scarves or play chess.

I'm on a search—and have been, I now realize, all my life—to find books to help me make sense of the world, to help me become a better person, to help me get my head around the big questions that I have and answer some of the small ones while I'm at it.

The things that have been most valuable to me I did not learn in school.

Identifying and accepting our flaws, and then changing who we are, means breaking down the very structure of our reality before rebuilding it in a new and improved form. This is not easy. It's painful and disturbing. We'll often fight with all we have to resist this kind of profound change. This is why we call those who manage it 'heroes'.

Try to see yourself with power. Not power so that you can get even with anybody else. Power so that you can become even with your vision- Maya Angelo

Very few people grow up. Most people grow older but growing up is challenging. Many people get older honor their credit cards matriculate into and graduate out of schools get married and have children. They call that growing up maturing. It's not. It is simply growing old - Maya Angelo

their chests. Mr. Ryu tells us to get off the bus and go inside

He adds that the worse a man is, the less likely he is to accept constructive criticism.

He who studies with a philosopher should take away with him some one good thing every day: he should daily return home a sounder man, or on the way to become sounder.

Stoic philosopher Seneca, about whom I will have much to say in this book, "He who studies with a philosopher should take away with him some one good thing every day: he should daily return home a sounder man, or on the way to become sounder.

We keep a journal to entrap that collection of selves that forms us, the individual human being.

Provide opportunities for others to step back and take stock, both organizationally and individually: schedule offsites, process reviews, surveys, and open conversations; offer people the chance to review their careers and refocus their efforts in areas of growing interest to them.

The transition's of life's second half offer a special kind of opportunity to break with the social conditioning and do something really new and different.

Author says change emphasizes what is happening TO us while transition emphasizes opportunity for growth within.

The friends that have it I do wrongWhen ever I remake a songShould know what issue is at stake,It is myself that I remake.

Happiness is neither virtue or pleasure nor this thing or that, but simply growth. We are happy when we are growing.

Out of the quarrel with others we make rhetoric; out of the quarrel with ourselves we make poetry.

The descent beckons as the ascent beckoned

It would have been nice for Greg to eventually grow into a mature relationship with Laura. He was moving toward that already but then took a turn into the juvenile with Paige.

Born 4th January 1935. Left school at 16 with one 'O' level in geography ( so I know my way round the world), but continued my education at the University of Real Life, than which, you will agree, there is none better.

The great hope of society is in individual character.