Quotes about Personal Growth

When you are on the path, the attraction of drugs and alcohol dramatically diminishes, because you realize how much they knock you around and disturb your clarity, focus, and work flow.

I always felt that I came up short in the education department, but I've come to the conclusion that we all get an education.

Once you cross a certain threshold, money doesn't get you more happiness. Our main concern is that if you have growth which is blind, fed by people's growing consumption, it's not really sustainable. What we are trying to do in our own little context is see what pattern of growth will be sustainable and desirable." Fellow Traveler The secretary introduces me to another government minister, a fortyish gentleman who has been diagnosed with Parkinson's disease.

releases you from the punishment of a self-made prison in which you're both the inmate and the jailer.

Somehow, Picard reflected, being snubbed by a Vulcan didn't seem as objectionable as being snubbed by someone else. Maybe it was because they were so reserved to begin with. Someday, he told himself, I would like to get to know a Vulcan better. Get inside his head, as it were.

If you accept the expectations of others, especially negative ones, then you never will change the outcome.

Las personas entran y salen de nuestra de vida. Nunca llegamos a enterarnos de cuándo y cómo llegan, ni tampoco de cuándo y cómo se van. Simplemente, aprendemos de ello, lo sobrellevamos como podemos y seguimos adelante. Así es como funciona. Y eso es lo que tienes que hacer tú ahora.

The only advice I have ever wanted to give is this: 'If it is in your nature to do so be a little vulnerable. Don't be afraid to talk about yourself, your journey, your pain, your vision.

Michael McCloskey

The old idea is that when tragedy strikes or when an obstacle blocks us, there are only two possibilities. We either become a smaller person or we become a bigger person. If it's a real life change you cannot come out the same. So therefore, you're either going to come out smaller or you are going to rise up and ultimately come out of it a bigger person.

When it comes to the human soul, the real battle is the struggle to truly become oneself. Not the self that others might want us to be, not even the self that we might wish to be; but the deep self and inner soul trying to awaken at critical crossroads in each life.

If we want the world to change, it has to start inside the human soul.

What good is a path that doesn't carry us to the edge of our capacity and then beyond that place? A true calling involves a great exposure before it can become a genuine refuge.

Admitting failure is quite cleansing, but never - pleasurable.

After completing a Delaware State education, they were afforded opportunities beyond anything they might have imagined - and they opened doors for themselves that surely would have remained closed if they only had a high school education.

country highway. He sensed that he was

In the months to come, we'll buy a house together and get married and have a son--all of it occurring so naturally that we won't even think of ourselves as having given up our freedom, but rather as having more of it.

I want to test my maximum and see how much I can do. And I want to change the world of swimming.

If originality and truth are your aim, cultivate your own back garden.

She says I should reach out and build bridges, but I think certain bridges are meant to burn and it's a shame some people can't be on them when it happens.

but I think certain bridges are meant to burn and it's a shame some people can't be on them when it happens.

What's important is growth and spirituality. Well, that's broad, you may say. It's really not. Growth is constant and never-ending improvement in life. If you don't think, you don't grow. If you don't take action, you don't grow. If you don't expand your mind, you won't get to the next level.

Tell me, storyteller, what is the greatest mistake a parent can make? -To believe that your children will be just like you

Do you know the greatest gift a parent can give to a child?" she asked, looking around the room. No one answered. "Independence. To allow them go out into the world and make their own decisions, travel their own paths.