Quotes about Personal Growth

I'm going to get into a funk, because that's what I do. I will feel put off, and then I will put on that ratty robe of rejection and wear it all day long. But I don't want to keep being a slave to my runaway emotions and assumptions. I don't want my days to be dictated by the moods of other people. And I really don't want the rejections of my past feeding my propensity to feel rejected today.

Tackle issues not people. Am I trying to prove my point or improve the relationship?

This isn't an indication that your healing isn't working. It's just an indication that you're a human still holding on to some hurt that needs to be resolved.

Experiencing life change is not a matter of chance, it's a matter of choice, choosing God's ways instead of your own.

The tension exists because you are doing the difficult work of no longer cooperating with dysfunction.

Every time you make a choice you are turning the central part of you, the part of you that chooses, into something a little different than it was before.

Rewriting the go-to scripts is one of the most crucial steps toward permanent progress.

I realized that neither Paul nor Barnabas were bad people. They were good people. But they weren't good together. And that's okay. It's so much healthier to be brave enough to go your separate ways than to keep stuffing and drown in a sea of bitterness.

Trauma isn't just something that happens to you. It happens in you

Heartbreaking seasons can certainly grow me but were never meant to define me.

Real love is a permanently self-enlarging experience.

The difficulty we have in accepting responsibility for our behavior lies in the desire to avoid the pain of the consequences of that behavior.

E)very soul requires secret places for contemplation as well as open spaces for celebration.

How we, as adults, come to be who we are, one layer at a time. How those early layers are the core that shapes and informs us but then each additional layer adds to our whole selves.

En el libro La Enseñanza de Buda dice: "Aunque un hombre conquiste a miles de hombres en los campos de batalla, sólo aquel que se conquiste a sí mismo ganará su batalla".

Lo que sí necesitamos es creer en nosotros mismos y en el poder que está adentro nuestro. Para acceder a él, debemos renunciar a muchas creencias, opiniones y juicios sobre nosotros mismos para querernos y aceptarnos tal cual somos. Sé que esto no es algo fácil. Ni siquiera sabemos conscientemente cuáles son las creencias que nos están afectando, pero con el proceso que enseño en este libro, no es necesario conocerlas, sino dar permiso para que se vayan.

A self is not something static, tied up in a pretty parcel and handed to the child, finished and complete. A self is always becoming.

I felt she saw into me, past every facade and flourish, and that the more she knew me, the more she loved me. I was too young, then, to know how lasting this kind of love is, how rarely it comes in one's life, how difficult it is to accept oneself, let alone another.

When she returned, she was full of life, impassioned. She seemed to want change, within herself, between them, and she believed all things were possible. She said that the past was not static, our memories fold and bend, we change with every step taken into the future.

the basis of all true learning.

Our job is to produce and guide our children; not to reproduce ourselves. Nor should we want to. One of the absolute miracles of life is the profound uniqueness of each person.

I also know two steps forward and one step back is the rule, not the exception, as people work on change.

We should be encouraging our children to push themselves, to develop their talents and passions, but we should also be aware that the bromide "You can do anything" is wishful thinking.

Transformation touched only bodies, not minds.