Quotes about Personal Growth

Shakespeare put it this way, in a famous quote from Julius Caesar: "The fault is not in our stars, dear Brutus, but in ourselves." That's a clear message. We are responsible for ourselves. We are responsible for our own luck. What an empowering thought! If you see responsibility as a bum deal, then you are not seeing it for what it really is—a great opportunity.

the times we worked harder to make the day stand out. our story demanded that we change and so we did.

I think that every living person, every person who is awake to the functioning principles within his reality has a moment where he stops blaming the problems in the world on group thinking, on humanity and authority, and starts to face himself. I hate this more than anything. This is the hardest principle within christian spirituality for me to deal with. The problem is not out there, the problem is the needy beast of a thing living in my chest.

I should have people around bugging me and getting under my skin because without people I could not grow - I could not grow in God, and I could not grow as a human.

It's funny what happens to you when part of your heart gets born inside somebody else.

Relationships are teleological. They're all going somewhere and they're turning us into something, hopefully something better, something new.

He said, "Don, when something hard happens to you, you have two choices in how to deal with it. You can either get bitter, or better. I chose to get better. It's made all the difference.

It isn't about what you don't get done; it's about what you do get done.

The point of a story is never about the ending, remember. It's about your character getting

I knew then, this relationship would have to be different. I knew I'd have to know myself and be known. These weren't only terrifying prospects, they were foreign. I didn't know how to do either. And the stakes were high. I was going to have to either learn to be healthy or I'd spend the rest of my life pretending. It was either intimacy or public isolation.

I want to keep my soul fertile for the changes, so things keep getting born in me, so things keep dying when it is time for things to die. I want to keep walking away from the person I was a moment ago, because a mind was made to figure things out, not to read the same page recurrently.

Human beings take action when their story challenges them to do so.

The three levels of problems heroes (and customers) face are External Problems Internal Problems Philosophical Problems

Question 1: What Do You Offer?

a story involves a character who wants something and overcomes conflict to get it.

we think we are the same person, but we aren't. "People get stuck, thinking they are one kind of person, but they aren't.

When a story demands transformation, you are much more likely to transform.

Y una vez que sabes lo que se requiere para que la historia de tu vida sea mejor, no tienes opción. Rehusarte a vivir una mejor historia sería como decidirte a morir, a deambular por la vida adormecido hasta que te mueras, y no es natural que uno quiera morirse.

Perhaps if we stop reducing the text to formulas for personal growth, we can read it as stories of imperfect humans having relations with a perfect God and come to understand the obvious message He is communicating to mankind.

The point of a story is never about the ending, remember. It's about your character getting molded in the hard work of the middle.

I was creating someone I could live through, the person I'd be if I redrew the world

Every human being is on a transformational journey.

A hero needs somebody else to step into the story to tell them they're different, they're better. That somebody is the guide. That somebody is you.

It's the crossing of that distance that makes the story work.