Quotes about Personal Growth

The more you do, the more experience you have and the next time it will be easier to choose the right thing.

When the heart is touched by direct experience, the mind may be challenged to change.

Comparing is impoverishing your own experience

Well, 'The Wellspring' was written from 1983 to 1986. And it had a section in the beginning that was poems that began from others' experience.

A failure is a man who has blundered, but is not able to cash in the experience.

The trouble with learning from experience is that you never graduate.

Open your mind to new experiences, particularly to the study of other ­people. Nothing that happens to a writer – however happy, however tragic – is ever wasted.

Your dragons are the frightened parts of your personality, and you alone can experience and heal them.

Introspection is a devouring monster. You have to feed it with much material, much experience, many people, many places, many loves, many creations, and then it ceases feeding on you.

It is a far worthier thing to read by the light of experience than to adorn oneself with the labors of others.

True initiation is a response to an inner calling; it requires that you face personal challenges heroically and experience a genuine rebirth into a new way of being.

I welcome the opportunity (even if painful) that my minute to minute experience offers me to become aware of the addictions I must reprogram to be liberated from my robot-like emotional patterns.

I like to think of my behavior in the sixties as a 'learning experience.' Then again, I like to think of anything stupid I've done as a 'learning experience.' It makes me feel less stupid.

It sounds kind of strange, but Jail time was almost a good experience for me.

However, I think I managed to reach a new level with Koko, and I will always be grateful for the experience.

Whoever doesn't know it must learn and find by experience that a quiet conscience makes one strong.

If I stay alert, then I can challenge myself, and by challenging myself, that helps me to stay alive and to hopefully take something away from the experience.

So my first book I had no experience having written a book, but each book is a little snapshot of who you are at that moment, accrued all through time, so I accept that.

I wouldn't describe that "position" as "parasitic." I'd describe that experience as "edifying." I don't merely write from a critical intellectual distance. I actually live around here.

The more you achieve, the more interest it should spark to go further, because there's so much - and I don't mean monetarily and I don't mean in society. This whole experience of living is so rich!

I've learnt a lot about certain things but you also learn through your own experience.

Actually, my experience over the past couple of years hasn't necessarily been something that would be interesting, were it committed to record.

I think sharing experience makes everything better. When people get talking about how they've overcome something or how they haven't, it's nourishing.

I made The Instigator while I was homeless as a result of 9/11, and there was some stuff on there that was really raw and directly out of that experience