Quotes about Personal Growth

Not everyone has to be the guy who saves the world. Most people just have to live their lives the best they can, doing things that are great for them, having great friends, trying to make their lives better, loving people properly. All the while knowing that the world makes no sense but trying to find a way to be happy anyway. pg 216

That was another lesson I had learned perhaps too well: people meant pain.

She'd strayed from the true way of things. First you set yourself to rights. And then your house. And then your corner of the sky. And after that... Well, then she didn't rightly know what happened next. But she hoped that after that the world would start to run itself a bit, like a gear-watch proper fit and kissed wit oil. That was what she hoped would happen.

Las preguntas que no podemos contestar son las que más nos enseñan. Nos enseñan a pensar. Si le das a alguien una respuesta, lo único que obtiene es cierta información. Pero si le das una pregunta,él buscara sus propias respuestas."... -Así, cuanto más difícil es la pregunta, más difícil la búsqueda. Cuanto más difícil es la búsqueda, más aprendemos...

A long road will teach you more about yourself than a hundred years of introspection.

My mind was learning to work in different ways, becoming stronger. It felt the same way your body feels after a day of splitting wood, or swimming, or sex. You feel exhausted, languorous, and almost godlike. I could feel my mind starting to awaken.

Respetas algo cuando le das un buen uso –replicó ella–. Tal vez pasen años hasta que vuelva a las tierras de los bárbaros y pelee. ¿Qué mal hay en que, entretanto, corte ramitas y zanahorias con mi espada? –Se puso seria–. Llevar una espada toda la vida, sabiendo que solo sirve para matar... –Meneó la cabeza–. ¿Cómo afectaría eso a mi mente? Sería espantoso.

we are all creatures of habit. It is far too easy to stay in the familiar ruts we dig for ourselves.

If you give a man an answer, all he gains is a little fact. But give him a question and he'll look for his own answers." I

If you give a man an answer, all he gains is a little fact. But give him a question and he'll look for his own answers.

It is every man's job to improve himself. A man without the benefits of education is hardly more than an animal.

I had a lot of anger because I wasn't happy with the way I had been raised.

I'm alone a lot of the time, locked away in my room. I talk to myself, but sometimes I forget to answer and get mad at myself so I stop speaking to me which makes me sad because no matter where I go, there I am, stuck in my cell.

We promised that we'd never leave one another again, until we both knew we were ready to stand on our own. And this vow, through everything we were yet to go through, we kept.

Your work, coming from a fluid source, can be traced to the naked song of your youth. You spoke then of holding hands with God. Remember, through everything, you have always held that hand, grip it hard, Robert, and don't let go. (letter to Robert Mapplethorpe, 1970)

Of all your work, you are still your most beautiful. The most beautiful work of all.

Living is worthwhile if one can contribute in some small way to this endless chain of progress.

It's not how good you are, It's how good you want to be.

Don't seek praise, seek criticism.

First of all there is Blue. Later there is White, and then there is Black, and before the beginning there is Brown. Brown broke him in, Brown taught him the ropes, and when Brown grew old, Blue took over. That is how it begins. The place is New York, the time is the present, and neither one will ever change.

Eighteen is a terrible age, and while I walked around with the conviction that I was somehow more grown-up than my classmates, the truth was that I had merely found a different way of being young.

Knowledge comes slowly, and when it comes, it is often at great personal expense.

you have to ask yourself two questions: Who am I? And how may I become myself?

Act your age, not your shoe size Ã¢â'¬Â¦ Factio vestri aevum, non vestri calceus amplitudo.