Quotes about Personal Growth

As a father, I do everything my dad didn't do. My son Beau's birth changed my life.

I have a liberal arts English degree, so I was brought up thinking that's what it was all about, and I had to learn that sometimes, or often times, art just is. It's not attempting at anything. It's not providing answers. I had to grow up a little bit before I got to that.

You learn more by reading more. I'm living proof that the more you learn, the more you earn.

It's pleasant to be with yourself as long as possible—if you've made yourself into someone worth spending time with."22

It is difficulties that reveal a person's character,

Although she didn't know what to say. She was under the impression that she was going to have to go back and start again at zero, even relearn language. Maybe in the end all of them had been right to force her to socialize a bit, to force her to wash, dress, entertain. Her

Growth, unlike aging, is not an automatic consequence of

Truly transformational knowledge is always personal, never merely objective. It involves knowing of, not merely knowing about. And it is always relational. It grows out of a relationship to the object that is known—whether this is God or one's self.

If I'm not constantly being met by challenges that I am overcoming, how do I know that I'm capable?

The book should betray me, in the sense that it should take me to places I am afraid to go

Furthermore, he admonishes us: "If you have nothing at all to create, then perhaps you create yourself."111

one must experience and know."33

These talks with the "Other" [No. 2 personality] were my profoundest experiences: on the one hand a bloody struggle, on the other supreme ecstasy.

On this path, we are making a bet that underneath all of that, you are big and powerful and good. All of that power, that wisdom, and that excellence is your true nature. All you have to do is carve away and drop the bullshit.

The only history is a mere question of one's struggle inside oneself. But that is the joy of it. One need neither discover Americas nor conquer nations, and yet one has as great a work as Columbus or Alexander, to do.

If you aren't free of yourself how will you ever become yourself?

Încrederea exagerat? în propria capacitate ne expune riscurilor ?i ne împiedic? s? evolu?m. Îndoiala de sine joac? un rol decisiv pentru maturitatea noastr? intelectual?.

Así que huyes de los causantes de dolor, vas a un sitio nuevo, intentas convencerte de que el viejo sitio no existe, que la distancia borra la historia

I haven't reached nirvana yet, but I've been to Detroit.

when things break, it's not the actual breaking that prevents them from getting back together again. it's because a little piece gets lost -- the two remaining ends couldn't fit together even if they wanted to. the whole shape has changed.

Everybody is unique. Compare not yourself with anybody else lest you spoil God's curriculum.

I've always had God, but now I want to go back to church for the sense of community and that feeling of positive thinking, a place where I can think about being a better person.

I may not be where I want to be, but thank God I am not where I used to be.

I believe God put me on this Earth to be the best person I could be, and that God put everyone to be the best person they could be.