Quotes about Personal Growth

Do not ask what brings Dante to man but what brings man to Dante-to personally enter his sphere, though it is forever severe and unforgiving.'

the primary purpose of college is to become a learner.

Werewolf Root is for changes that are complete, so that one cannot go back to the old life one was living.

It is easier to study books and "objective facts" than to develop one's subjective life, senses, perceptive abilities, and method of thinking.

We are never the same with others as when we are alone. We are different, even when we are in the dark with them.

We subdue that in others which we have learned to subdue in ourselves. Around the upright man there is drawn a wide circle of peace, within which the arrows of evil soon cease to fall; nor have his fellows the power to inflict moral suffering upon him.

Il n'est toutefois de véritable élévation que conquise, de puissance et de gloire vraies qu'individuelles, forgées par la volonté et le travail. La presse qui promet l'une et l'autre ne saurait faire tomber dans son miroir à alouettes que les médiocres et les faibles. Balzac la condamne comme une fausse école d'ambition. (p. 149)

To change one's life is not to change outer circumstances: it is to change one's reactions.

This is important because we will never help others become fully devoted followers of Christ unless we are fully devoted followers of Christ ourselves, and we will never be fully devoted followers of Christ ourselves until we have mastered the challenge of personal growth in the spiritually toxic twenty-first century.

the parents are the first problem a child comes up against, the first resistance he has to assert himself against; his arguments with them are the model for all his later fights in life.

The real sadness of fifty is not that you change so much but that you change so little.

You can't eat straight A's.

A story can take you through a whole process of searching, seeking, confronting, through conflicts, and then to a resolution. As the storyteller and the listener, we go through a story together.

We are built to conquer environment, solve problems, achieve goals, and we find no real satisfaction or happiness in life without obstacles to conquer and goals to achieve.

Within you right now is the power to do things you never dreamed possible. This power becomes available to you just as you can change your beliefs.

Low self esteem is like driving through life with your hand-break on.

So remember you make mistakes. Mistakes don't make you—anything.

thought to change their thinking of the "self" which was to accomplish these things.

The self-image can be changed.

List here an experience from your past that is explained by the principles given in this chapter:

In the middle of the night, things well up from the past that are not always cause for rejoicing--the unsolved, the painful encounters, the mistakes, the reasons for shame or woe. But all, good or bad, give me food for thought, food to grow on.

Do not deprive me of my age. I have earned it.

Something made greater by ourselves and in turn that makes us greater.

I did then what I knew how to do. Now that I know better, I do better.