Quotes about Personal Growth

I owe everything to Nirvana. But I can't let that overshadow the future. For the first few years, I didn't even want to talk about Nirvana. Partly because it was just painful to talk about losing Kurt but also because I wanted the Foo Fighters to mean something.

I never wanted to get married. I never thought that was in my cards. I always thought I was just going to be an independent woman my entire life. Hopefully having a partner but never getting married.

Intimacy seems to be one of the major highs of life, whether it's getting to know yourself in a deeper way, or your partner, or the world and the society that you live in.

People think getting a new partner is like getting a new car.

I'm so single. It's funny. I'm usually a relationship girl. I love being in love and having a partner in crime. But it's good to be your own partner in crime. God, that makes me sound like I have multiple-personality disorder.

The partner that you have is supposed to make you a better person, and when you're happy, you're a better person.

I don't want to get married for the sake of getting married. My hope is that I have a partner with whom I can continue to take on the world.

I'm settled emotionally and mentally because of my partner, and a lot of my growth has happened post-marriage.

I've learned that I need to appreciate time by myself and that I don't need a partner to complete me.

I have had so many beautiful memories with all of my celebrity partners! They all have shaped me into the person that I am today.

I'm a much healthier person through my relationship with my husband. I've become a more fulfilled person - it's a great partnership.

I've learned, over the years, to go after the parts where I feel I can add something.

I'm trying to be me and embrace all the parts of me that have grown up, listened to more music and soaked up more influences.

I want to keep doing different things. I'd like to do a more personal, dramatic movie next, I think. But as long as it's about characters and good writing and good parts for actors, that's what's important.

I don't fit into the yummy mummy box, I'm not a party girl anymore, I'm just me.

From 18 to 22, I was alone, living in L.A. with a bunch of friends, partying.

Your 20s are for partying, your 30s - if you choose to have kids or are lucky enough to have them - are when you give yourself over to childcare, and then in your 40s it just becomes about you a bit more.

In a way, I got away with a lot because a lot of our partying was done behind closed doors. But I don't ever want to be that person again, who embarrasses my family with my behaviour.

I took a Groundlings class in my 20s, and I was terrible. They didn't even pass me to the next level.

Being a mother impacts every aspect of your life. It's a rite of passage which gives you an entirely different outlook on things.

KIN' is basically a kind of rite of passage, scars-and-all celebration of going through difficult things in your life and being better for it.

My dad passed away before my freshman year, and it altered how I thought. I was depressed - I didn't hang out with my friends. I worked through it by dancing.

Someone who's passed through the circumstances that I have has to make the decision either to be a good person or a bad person, and I decide to become better at every opportunity.

I am a 10th class pass in Hindi. From 7th grade to 12th grade, I was in Delhi; before that, I was abroad. I came in not knowing a word of Hindi in 7th grade and learned Hindi and passed the exam in 10th. I think I was north of 50 percent, so I feel very proud of that accomplishment.