Quotes about Personal Growth

What you need to do is build the house you will live in. You build that house by laying a solid foundation: by building physical, emotional, mental, and spiritual health.

People who grow, question what they know.

No existen confrontación ni creación sin riesgos, sin derecho a la divergencia, a la posibilidad de estar juntos y de pensar distinto, a la posibilidad del crecimiento personal a costa de nadie, su atipicidad, su independencia, sus juegos de imaginación para poder fundar una nueva visión en un nuevo orden que le posibilite ante él mismo y ante los demás testimonear su verdad.

It's pretty cool to see how far music can take you.

You are not your partner. His issues are not your issues. His behavior is not your behavior. His destructiveness does not prove that anything is wrong with you. You are separate people.

On those days when his nasty or rejecting side comes out first thing, tell yourself, "His coldness is his problem, not mine. He's the one who's missing out. I'm not going to let him ruin my day.

Mas é necessário cortar com o que ele eventualmente tem de sufocante: pois pode ser também jaula, voragem, fundo de poço. Se ficarmos demais presos, teremos de nos puxar pelos próprios cabelos para outro espaço onde mesmo com susto e incertezas a gente possa respirar e decidir o que fazer agora.

Improving ourselves is not the sacrifice the Lord calls us to.

Maybe for now I should try, each day, to be a little less than I usually am.

She reads a book about Zen and she writes down on a piece of paper the eight parts of Buddha's eightfold path and thinks she might follow it. She sees that it mainly involves doing everything right.

If you want to be original, don't labor to be original. Rather, work on yourself, your mind, and then say what you think. This was Stendhal's advice. Actually, he said: "If you want to be witty, work on your character and say what you think on every occasion.

Like a tropical storm, I, too, may one day become 'better organized.

The ideal of character always runs beyond the attainment.

Each nature requires its own education. The training which will help the man of undue self-esteem, will hurt the man who has too little. A chief end of life is to grow aright; and no man can grow aright.

Simply following the herd is not going to work. In a way that past generations simply didn't have to do, each one of us will need to think about who we are and how we construct our life and how this reflects our identity and values.

Today Rosa's little one will take his first step in outgrowing his mother. Children are their own persons; they are not part of us.

Now, Doc—" "Yes, Shiloh?" She interrupted with exaggerated sweetness, and fluttered her eyelashes. Shiloh grinned. "I dunno, I musta gone crazy there for a minute. I was actually going to try to talk you out of something. But don't worry, I'm okay now.

I don't want marriage. You know why? Because I did that. I did it for 32 years.

He had even read Pride and Prejudice--although he had thought that many of the heroine's problems would have been solved if someone had simply strangled her mother.

In being able to learn from his mistakes and grow, Eisenhower "was transformed from a mere person into a personage.

Who do I need to be to fulfill on the commitment I've made? What kind of human being do I need to forge myself into to make this happen? What resources do I need to be willing to bring to bear in myself and my colleagues and in my world?

We must respect ourselves enough to break the pattern of placing unrealistic expectations on others.

The tweaking of us by God in the quiet is the saving of us in public.

Am I trying to prove or improve?