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Quotes about Personal Growth

No one is born fully-formed: it is through self-experience in the world that we become what we are.
~ Paulo Freire
Everyone gets the experience. Some get the lesson.
~ T. S. Eliot
[A] journey becomes a pilgrimage as we discover, day by day, that the distance traveled is less important than the experience gained.
~ Ernest Kurtz
Everybody has a story. And there's something to be learned from every experience.
~ Oprah Winfrey
A heart can only discover what it really wants with experience.
~ Kathy Bates
All that I know I learned after I was thirty.
~ Georges Clemenceau
If you learn from an experience, that's good - so nothing bad happened to you.
~ Russell Means
As you gain experience, you mature as an individual, and along with that comes the confidence that you have the ability to solve problems.
~ Chuck Noll
You have to get beyond your own precious inner experiences.
~ Stella Adler
One of the things that separates climbing from other sports is how independent and personal it is. With most sports, you either win or lose, but climbing is about your own personal experience.
~ Chris Sharma
It takes a great deal of experience to become natural.
~ Willa Cather
I am willing to let go. I release others to experience whatever is meaningful to them, and I am free to create that which is meaningful to me.
~ Louise Hay
The opportunity to experience yourself differently is always available.
~ Yongey Mingyur Rinpoche
I try not to have regrets and to learn from every experience.
~ Tommy Hilfiger
Argument does not teach children or the immature. Only time and experience does that.
~ Doris Lessing
To experience some healing within yourself, and to contribute healing to the world, you are summoned to wade through the muck from time to time.
~ James Hollis
Because of styles people are separated. Research your own experience, absorb what is useful, reject what is useless, add what is essentially your own.
~ Bruce Lee
I don't like to compare years, honestly. I think every year is a different experience, a different challenge. You grow. You evolve as a person and as a player.
~ Novak Djokovic
The character and history of each child may be a new and poetic experience to the parent, if he will let it.
~ Margaret Fuller
For me, the more I live, the more I need to write. The more I push myself to really live and really experience things and step outside of my comfort zone, the more the songs are allowed to flow.
~ Damien Rice
The Infinite Way is not a message, it is an experience.
~ Joel S. Goldsmith
The you that goes in one side of the meditation experience is not the same you that comes out the other side.
~ Henepola Gunaratana
It is good to be the possessor of some mountain-top experience.
~ Vernon Johns
If you got it, ask yourself why and try to repeat the action. If you failed, ask yourself why and try to learn from the experience.
~ Dale Carnegie