Quotes about Personal Growth

I used to spend so much time reacting and responding to everyone else that my life had no direction. Other people's lives, problems, and wants set the course for my life. Once I realized it was okay for me to think about and identify what I wanted, remarkable things began to take place in my life.

So during those first moments of the day, which are yours and yours alone, you can circumvent these boundaries and concentrate fully on spiritual matters. And this gives you the opportunity to plan the time management of the entire day.

He who attends to his greater self becomes a great man, and he who attends to his smaller self becomes a small man.

My second marriage had a lot to do with alcohol.

I realized that in order to fully pass this threshold of the self-healing journey after narcissistic abuse, I had to surrender my ego's attachment to the false sense of security that I had created through isolation and not risking my heart in relationships.

There isn't a more perfect person somewhere, only a more perfect person we might become, and there isn't a paradise someone can lead us to unless it's the world we make for ourselves when we stop expecting it to be delivered by someone else.

I worked through memories like weeping wounds. I wrote tedious accounts of petty conflicts and read them aloud to people. I removed layer after layer of rot.

The neurotic expects to rid herself of the consequences of her unresolved conflicts without changing anything inside her at all.

every situation comes with a learning experience.so stop repeating the same mistakes & learn something.

It's a dangerous thing, to divide yourself, to break off bits of yourself until there's no solid core. We are, after all, just the sum of our total experiences, each one lying beneath us like a brick in the foundation of a house. To be selective, to block out portions, is to destabilize the very ground on which you stand.

I did it, and it's all right. Even the worst experiences were right in their time, because otherwise, it wouldn't have come to this point. That was your road, and you had to walk it.

If you can't recognize the man in the mirror, it is time to step back and see when you stopped being yourself.

Easy isn't for Jedi. Of course, trying to find your own path is much more difficult. Maybe what you have to do is walk a bit on the other paths and see how you can waeve bits and pieces of them together." - Anakin Solo

If I can't forgive birth mother, how can I be out in the world arguing for love, justice, and community? How can I hold her hostage away from my heart for something she did when she was so young? My instincts are to stay angry, but my heart says that anger is the road to ruin.

It dumbs down my relationship with them to being the guardian of their bodies instead of a champion of their minds and their personal and political growth.

People should not think of retiring as the last phase of their lives. They should think of it as a time to rewire themselves for new adventures that they are passionate about. Quote from Long Island University Magazine Winter 2016

But our wounds are part of who we are...and there is nothing left to chance....And pain's the pen that writes the songs....That call us forth to dance

There comes a moment in our lives when some of the pieces of the puzzle come together - where all our past experiences, both good and bad, are brought to bear in causing us to become who God intends us to be.

we become the stories we tell ourselves

the false self must die in order for the true self to be born.

Once established, the level of "self" rarely changes unless a person makes a structured and long-term effort to change it.

I wasn't smart enough to read relationship books when I was coming up. I learned everything the hard way.

The American essayist William Deresiewicz wrote that "no real excellence, personal or social, artistic, philosophical, scientific, or moral, can arise without solitude.

I grew up reading Holocaust literature at the beach, Gulag literature on winter holidays, Vietnam memoirs on spring break.