Quotes about Personal Growth

There are days when the younger self accuses you. Is this who you wanted to be? Is this the life you wanted to live? What had happened to the books she had dreamt of writing, the journeys she had planned to take, the person she had thought to become? What had happened to that quiet, stubborn, fierce girl who promised herself freedom and adventure and who thought she could do anything?

Could there ever be a more wonderful story than your own?

Activities of self-realization are subject to increasing marginal utility:

You have to step away from other people's craziness at some point. I learnt that in therapy. You have to stop owning it on their behalf. Even when they're your parents.

We get so set in our ways, you know? I mean, when you meet someone in your teens, like you two did, well, you're still growing, aren't you? You automatically adjust so that you fit together. But when you're my age, all the likes and dislikes are set in stone. That's the trouble.

I'm trying to improve my typing. notice I now leave a space after a comma, I'm very proud of myself!)

You somehow grow into the fullness of your humanity, form your own character, become a proper person – I don't know, someone who has become a part of things, not someone separated from or at odds with the world.

Hard is trying to rebuild yourself, piece by piece, with no instruction book, and no clue as to where all the important bits are supposed to go.

took those drugs that made me search my soul, and try to see what I was all about … But the drugs back-fired. I took acid, and it squashed my ego down a little bit, and it hurt my feelings that I didn't have what someone else might have had. When you go through too much of that, it's like an attack you have inside your head. You won't accept it like that. I want it to be perfect! Music is perfect! 'But I never ever quit. See, I'm not a quitter.

All creatures are travellers. The most important journeys are the interior ones. The most important and the most hazardous.

I wanted them to learn something unique to them, that came from them, not an artificial overlay that would evaporate in the first flash of fear adrenaline if they were ever threatened.

She was a piece of work. He was better off without her.

To learning experiences, even though they suck.

After some months on the road she was taller still, her muscles hard but her smile more ready.

For the trunk of individuality to grow, one must prevent freedom from making the trunk spread out into branches.

A door to an alternate self. This self was another Alice, not the childhood Alice: capable, free in the world, independent.

Growing up, my mom was very strict about how I dressed and how I behaved, and I said to myself that I wasn't going to be like that. But now I know I'm going to be exactly like my mom. I'm going to be worse!

You're on a journey whether you want to be or not.

The process of growing and learning always involves risk.

I'm always improving and I want to get better and never hit a plateau. I find it an amazing adventure.

Forget who I really am, who I really want to be.

Don't live a life you copy from others, it's definitely going to be complicated to you.

Tuning in to an attitude of gratitude during times when we want to jump into bed and hide under the covers is the best way to feel better, inside and out.

You have kids and you think I made you, so we're the same, but it's not true. You just get to live with them for a while and maybe help them figure things out.