Quotes about Personal Growth

Very early, I knew that the only object in life was to grow.

Our capacities, our instincts for this our present sphere are but half developed. Let us be completely natural; before we trouble ourselves with the supernatural.

Today a reader, tomorrow a leader. If you have knowledge, let others light their candles in it. Very early I knew that the only objective in life was to grow

Today a reader, tomorrow a leader

It would be nice if we were different people but we are not different people. We are ourselves and we are sure as hell not going to undergo some total transformation at this point.

She loved him, even though it was so hard to love anybody else after loving my dad. I think I knew this before she did.

Separation and individuation are conceived of as two complementary developments: separation consists of the child's emergence from a symbiotic fusion with the mother (Mahler, 1952), and individuation consists of those achievements marking the child's assumption of his own individual characteristics.

Watch your thoughts, for they will become actions. Watch your actions, for they'll become... habits. Watch your habits for they will forge your character. Watch your character, for it will make your destiny.

it's what makes you grow up to have younguns and be a sho-nuff mammy all your own ... . A man ain't but trouble, just breath and britches and trouble

Anger is like a disease. You can catch it. You can give it.

Lo real no es algo que te venga dado. Es algo que te pasa. Y ahora mismo, necesitas que te pasen cosas buenas.

Trust in your willingness to learn, grow, and evolve. Trust in your gut instincts. When you trust yourself, you can take risks and get out of your comfort zone. Trust yourself, and you will be the lead in your own life.

So I grew. And as I grew I learned that in the world beyond family and family friends, your mistakes—bad manners, poor taste, an excess of high spirits—could put you, your parents, and your people at risk.

Notre grande erreur est d'essayer d'obtenir de chacun en particulier les vertus qu'il n'a pas, et de négliger de cultiver celles qu'il possède.

I want you to beat down the me in me that can't coexist with me.

She makes her little house to shine, she thought.

As being, no matter how small you are, but how much informed, intelligent, adaptable, being…

You cannot hope to build a better world without improving the individuals. To that end each of us must work for his own improvement, and at the same time share a general responsibility for all humanity, our particular duty being to aid those to whom we think we can be most useful.

Noi non possiamo sperare di costruire un mondo migliore senza migliorare gli individui. Con questo scopo, ciascuno di noi deve lavorare al proprio perfezionamento, pur accettando la propria parte nella vita generale dell'Umanità; poiché il nostro dovere particolare è di aiutare quelli ai quali possiamo essere più utili

Our beliefs either propel us to or prevent us from living to our fullest potential. Our beliefs determine whether we fail or succeed, and how we define success in the first place.

What happened in our house taught my brothers how to leave, how to walk down a sidewalk without looking back.

the bridge appears when you walk across it—that

One can acquire everything in solitude, except character.

Change begins with the person who wants the change.