Quotes about Personal Growth

A man may be born a jackass; but it is his business if he makes himself a double one.

[Psychology] should be just as concerned with building strength as with repairing damage.

Ten years ago, when I was on an airplane and I introduced myself to my seatmate, and told them [I was a psychologist], they'd move away from me. … And now when I tell people what I do, they move toward me.

So, as you may be sensing, I wasn't quite cooked.

Walking away was easy, it was staying around and sorting out your own shit that took guts, that made you a man.

tout est dans la nature si une personne essaye de vous changer ses quel ne vous aime pas vraiment de la facon que vous êtes rellement

Don't try to fix the students, fix ourselves first. The good teacher makes the poor student good and the good student superior. When our students fail, we, as teachers, too, have failed.

Don't minimize yourself and think about colors .. live your life appreciating black and white and you will grow peacefully in colors!

I know I can't change the past. Not my mistakes or the mistakes of others. But I can begin by changing me.

Life is more about the journey than the destination

I am not the same having seen the moon shine on the other side of the world.

As far as feeling freedom in my career now versus five years ago... I think if I feel any more free it's simply because of the experiences that I've had, and the wisdom I've accumulated from that time.

It's all about falling in love with yourself and sharing that love with someone who appreciates you, rather than looking for love to compensate for a self love deficit.

After all these years, I see that I was mistaken about Eve in the beginning; it is better to live outside the Garden with her than inside it without her.

On reflection, one of the things I needed to learn was to allow myself to be loved.

Practice being at home with yourself, as you step out to be with others.

It is a lovely thing to have a husband and wife developing together and having the feeling of falling in love again. That is what marriage really means: helping one another to reach the full status of being persons, responsible and autonomous beings who do not run away from life.

The art of being yourself at your best is the art of unfolding your personality into the person you want to be. . . . Be gentle with yourself, learn to love yourself, to forgive yourself, for only as we have the right attitude toward ourselves can we have the right attitude toward others.

If you find someone that you think is your soul-mate, someone you could potentially spend the rest of your life with, why ruin it by staying together?

Keep out of the suction caused by those who drift backwards.

Knowing that we can be loved exactly as we are gives us all the best opportunity for growing into the healthiest of people.

Sometimes he caught himself listening to the sound of his own voice. He thought that in her eyes he would ascent to an angelical stature; and, as he attached the fervent nature of his companion more and more closely to him, he heard the strange impersonal voice which he recognised as his own, insisting on the soul's incurable lonliness. We cannot give ourselves, it said: we are our own.

A friend is one that knows you as you are, understands where you have been, accepts what you have become, and still, gently allows you to grow.

True love is that which ennobles the personality, fortifies the heart, and sanctifies the existence.