Quotes about Personal Growth

What is the virtue and service of a book? Only to help me live less gingerly and shabbily.

I think I'm always drawn to projects that help me understand something about myself.

The only real help is self-help. Anything else is just designed to get you to the point where you can help yourself.

Generally someone will eventually tell you that you have to do something to help yourself.

Before I started touring, I worked with someone to help me, even physically, because I was so shy. And you can't be shy going onstage. So I had to push myself in a direction that wasn't myself.

I can't help you if you won't help yourself.

I knew that I had it tough compared to children around me. But I felt like I needed it. I think I had the wisdom as a child to know that it would help me later on.

Refuse to ever use the term 'failure' again about yourself or anyone else. Remind yourself that wehn things didn't go as planned you didn't fail, you only produced a result.

I think I like a challenge. I try to find projects that will push me in a new way and help me grow.

First you have to help yourself.

My friends are me and in essence better than me, they help me be better even when they don't know it.

I still know I have an awful lot to learn, and I hope I'm put in whatever situation it is that's gonna help me learn it, or that I'll get to watch really good people do what they do.

Unfortunately we treat others as we treat ourselves. We should try being genuinely kind to ourselves and the rest will come naturally, like a Platinum Rule.

Literature is the history of the soul.

It is best to erase all personal history because that would make us free from the encumbering thoughts of other people

If art doesn't make us better, then what on earth is it for.

s past history and stand alone.

Cut the umbilical cord to yesterday. Although we can't change history, we change the effect the past has on the future.

I wasn't particularly good at school so always found essay writing hard, so I didn't do that well at English or history, even though I enjoyed it.

I was 32 when I started cooking; up until then, I just ate.

I like going out and I like being single, but a growing part of me would rather just stay home, cook food with someone I really like, and do nothing.

I find myself going out on the road to get my confidence back, because I lose it at home.

There are many truths of which the full meaning cannot be realized until personal experience has brought it home.

Any human being who is becoming independent of conditionings, of religions, scriptures, prophets and messiahs, has arrived home. He has found the treasure which was hidden in his own being.