Quotes about Personal Growth

each of us is doing the very best we can at this very moment. If we knew better, if we had more understanding and awareness, then we would do it differently.

How empty of me to be so full of you.

Would you really dig into yesterday's garbage to make tonight's meal? Do you dig into old mental garbage to create tomorrow's experiences? If a thought or belief does not serve you, let it go! There is no written law that says that because you once believed something, you have to continue to believe it forever.

We need to understand that they were doing the best they could with the understanding, awareness, and knowledge they had at that time.

You have to get in touch with your inner guidance because it is the wisdom that knows the answers for you.

Each one of us has a three-year-old child within us, and we often spend most of our time yelling at that kid in ourselves. Then we wonder why our lives don't work.

No person, no place, and no thing has any power over us, for "we" are the only thinkers in our mind. When we create peace and harmony and balance in our minds, we will find it in our lives.

We all have lessons to learn. The things that are so difficult for us are only the lessons we have chosen for ourselves. If things are easy for us, then they are not lessons, but are things we already know.

To me, habitual anger is like sitting in a corner with a dunce cap on.

Self-Criticizing Is Totally Missing the Mark It will only intensify the procrastination and laziness. The place to put the mental energy is into releasing the old and creating a new thought pattern. Say: "I am willing to release the need to be unworthy. I am worthy of the very best in life, and I now lovingly allow myself to accept it. "As I spend a few days doing this affirmation over and over, my outer effect pattern of procrastination will automatically begin to fade.

The past has no power over me because I am willing to learn and to change. I see the past as necessary to bring me to where I am today. I am willing to begin where I am right now to clean the rooms of my mental house. I know it does not matter where I start, so I now begin with the smallest and the easiest rooms, and in that way I will see results quickly.

Think thoughts that make you happy. Do things that make you feel good. Be with people who make you feel good. Eat things that make your body feel good. Go at a pace that makes you feel good. Planting

We're all doing the best we can with the understanding, knowledge, and awareness we have.

I am far more than my personality — past, present, or future. I now choose to rise above my personality problems to recognize the magnificence of my being. I am totally willing to learn to love myself. All is well in my world.

Too often instead of working on our own changes, we decide which of our friends needs to change. This, too, is resistance.

If you find yourself saying, "Everyone always does such and such to me, criticizes me, is never there for me, uses me like a doormat, abuses me," then this is YOUR PATTERN. There is some thought in you that attracts people who exhibit this behavior. When you no longer think that way, they will go elsewhere and do that to somebody else. You will no longer attract them.

I think many people love their problems. Gives them all sorts of excuses for not growing up and getting on with life.

The fault lies with us, and only us. It's not fate, not genetics, not bad luck, and it's definitely not Mom and Dad. Ultimately it's us and our choices. But, but' – now her eyes shone and she almost vibrated with excitement – 'the most powerful, spectacular thing is that the solution rests with us as well. We're the only ones who can change our lives, turn them around. So all those years waiting for someone else to do it are wasted.

Love wants the best for others. Attachment takes hostages.

To remain conscious and continent was her new goal.

it's not the truth about others that will set you free, but the truth about yourself.

I'll pray that you grow up a brave man in a brave country," Clara said. "I will pray you find a way to be useful," Gamache completed the quote. Reine-Marie dropped her eyes to her hands and saw the paper napkin twisted and shredded there. Clara nodded slowly. "I think you might be right. Peter went to Paris not to find a new artistic voice. It was simpler than that. He wanted to find a way to be useful.

Yes, I do. The ones who aren't growing and evolving, who are standing still. They're the ones who rarely got better.' 'Yes, that was it,' said Gamache. 'They waited for life to happen to them. They waited for someone to save them. Or heal them. They did nothing for themselves.' 'Ben,' said Peter.

but if you were a nasty piece of work growing up, you'll be an asshole as an adult and you'll die pissed off.