Quotes about Personal Growth

Thirty days is just about the right amount of time to add a new habit or subtract a habit — like watching the news — from your life.

sometimes you find your path gets blocked, and you have to take a step back – back home, even – to move forward.

Even the most talented artists have flaws and limitations that no amount of training can overcome, just as even the most exceptional individuals have hang-ups and quirks that no amount of personal growth can erase. The artists we consider great are those who make their flaws and limitations somehow complement their strengths and contribute to their signature style.

You can't change the past. You can't change other people. You can change you though. You narrate this story. So start to write a new chapter.

Misery, like yoga, is not a competitive sport

When you stay too long in one place, you forget just how big an expanse the world is. You get no sense of the length of those longitudes and latitudes. Just as, she supposed, it is hard to have a sense of the vastness inside any one person.

There is no point spending an entire life trying to win the love you didn't feel when you needed it. You sometimes just have to let go of an old story and start your own. Give yourself some love. You can't change the past. You can't change other people. You can change you though. You narrate this story. So start to write a new chapter.

Check your emotional armour is actually protecting you, and not so heavy you can't move.

She wasn't a black hole, she decided. She was a volcano. And like a volcano, she couldn't run away from herself. She'd have to stay there and tend to that wasteland. She could plant a forest inside herself.

The way out is never through yourself.

I suppose, in the absence of universal certainties, we are our own best laboratory.

Pressure makes us, though. You start off as coal and the pressure makes you a diamond.

If your life isn't working You have to ask why.

On Earth you have to spend a lot of time traveling in between places, be it on roads or on rail tracks or in careers or relationships.

There are things I have experienced I will never again be able to experience for the first time: love, a kiss, Tchaikovsky, a Tahitian sunset, jazz, a hot dog, a Bloody Mary. That is the nature of things. History was - is - a one-day street. You have to keep walking forwards. But you don't always need to look ahead. Sometimes you can just look around and be happy right where you are.

Andrea told me after that film that there was too much Matt Haig in Matt Haig. She was kind of joking but kind of on to something. So for me, anything that lessens that extreme sense of selfe, that makes me feel me but at a lower volume, is very welcome. (...) Travel has been one of those things.

C'è un solo cantuccio dell'universo che uno può esser certo di rendere migliore, e questo è il proprio io.

Ze wilde niet dood. En ze wilde geen ander leven dan haar eigen leven. Het leven dat een rommelige worsteling kon zijn, maar het was háár slordige rommelige worsteling. Een geweldige , rommelige worsteling.

A veces la única manera de aprender es vivir.

anything that lessens that extreme sense of self, that makes me feel me but at a lower volume, is very welcome.

If you aim to be something you are not, you will always fail. Aim to be you. Aim to look and act and think like you.

If you aim to be something you are not, you will always fail. Aim to be you. Aim to look and act and think like you. Aim to be the truest version of you.

Dünya'da yaÅŸarken bir yere varmak için epey zaman harcamak zorundas?n?z, yollar, raylar, kariyerler, iliÅŸkiler, her ÅŸeyde böyle bu." Sf. 7

Because, Nora, sometimes the only way to learn is to live." "Sounds hard.