Quotes about Personal Growth

Everybody grows up by leaps, and not by a steady climb like a mountaineer.

The true test of a man, the beginning of his redemption, actually starts when he can no longer rely on what he's used all his life. The real journey begins when the false self fails.

We reframe everything by one simple choice: I am accepting God's invitation to become a man. From there we interpret jobs, money, relationships, flat tires, bad dates, even our play time as the context in which the boy is becoming a man. We take an active role, asking our Father to speak to us, speak to our identity, to validate us. We step into our fears and accept "hardship as discipline

The beauty is that as you become more whole, you can become holier. And as you become holier, you can become more whole.

You see, whenever we live in relationship, whenever we simply live in proximity to other people, sooner or later we will run up against their issues—the unhealed or unholy parts of their personalities. Just as they will run into ours. Living in community is like a pack of porcupines sharing the same den. We will get stuck.

If you are wise, you will never pity the past for what it did not know, but pity yourself for what it did.

You have shared your secret. I think you will find it to be an unburdening in many other ways. You have very considerable natural advantages. You have nothing to fear from life. A day will come when these recent unhappy years may seem no more than that cloud-stain over there upon Chesil Bank. You shall stand in sunlight—and smile at your own past sorrows.

You use your life.

There comes a time in each life like a point of fulcrum. At that time you must accept yourself. It is not any more what you will become. It is what you are and always will be.

My only plea is that all artists have to range the full extent of their own lives freely. The rest of the world can censor and bury their private past. We cannot, and so have to remain partly green till the day we die… callow-green in the hope of becoming fertile-green.

Here's a QBQ twist for all of us: "God, grant me the serenity to accept the people I cannot change, the courage to change the one I can, and the wisdom to know—it's me!

If we have not changed, we have not learned

God, grant me the serenity to accept the people I cannot change, the courage to change the one I can, and the wisdom to know—it's me!

How much better things would be if we all tried to mold and shape our own thoughts and actions rather than those of others.

You may already be familiar with the Serenity Prayer: "God, grant me the serenity to accept the things I cannot change, the courage to change the things I can, and the wisdom to know the difference." Here's a QBQ twist for all of us: "God, grant me the serenity to accept the people I cannot change, the courage to change the one I can, and the wisdom to know—it's me!

The best thing we can do to get rid of victim thinking in our world is to get rid of it in ourselves. The first QBQ guideline says all

Practise doing things for yourself and not depending on him to make you happy.

Wanting to improve someone feels like love but it is not. Changing ourselves to do what works instead of trying to change our partner, letting go of judgment, and finding forgiveness are the true expressions of love.

You cannot, nor should you ever try to, change your partner. That is his or her job. Your job is to change the ways you communicate, react, and respond to your partner

Venus, everyone studies psychology and has at least a master's degree in counseling. They are very involved in personal growth, spirituality, and everything that can nurture life, healing, and growth.

He put her on secret probation. She had seven days to become nice

about one of his schools he said, I would make the following criticisms. First, too much attention to marks. Second, too much religion. Third, no time for me to develop my own interests. Fourth, group discipline may be imposed unfairly.

Everybody's got a river inside, he said. Always something under the surface.

We can leave a place behind, or we can stay in that place and leave our selfishness (often expressed in feeling sorry for ourselves) behind. If we leave a place and take our selfishness with us, the cycle of problems starts all over again no matter where we go. But if we leave our selfishness behind, no matter where we are, things start to improve.