Quotes about Personal Growth

When we love, we always strive to become better than we are. When we strive to become better than we are, everything around us becomes better too.

O diálogo é o encontro dos homens para Ser Mais

No one is born fully-formed: it is through self-experience in the world that we become what we are.

isso de querer ser exatamente aquilo que a gente é ainda vai nos levar além

Just so you know... Even if I don't break it... alot of people break their own Egg. All those adults walking around with tired faces... they've thrown away the "person they want to be.

Discomfort is always a necessary part of enlightenment.

I have stepped off the relationship scene to come to terms with myself. I have spent most of my adult life being 'someone's girlfriend', and now I am happy being single.

No se aprende nada lastimando a los demás; solo aprendes cuando te lastiman a ti.

Travel broadens one's scope," he explained. "Anytime you do any traveling, your scope will be broadened. It doesn't mean you change, you broaden.

The truth is that our finest moments are most likely to occur when we are feeling deeply uncomfortable, unhappy, or unfulfilled. For it is only in such moments, propelled by our discomfort, that we are likely to step out of our ruts and start searching for different ways or truer answers. M. Scott Peck

Penny Vincenzi

But that's life. That's what you learn from; when things happen. Especially at your age. You just have to take it in and remember to think afterwards and not forget and never grow bitter.

I really loved your mother. I was sad when she didn't come back, but, like I said, I understood and still think it was for the best. For her at least. It really fucked you up. Not so badly as I might have guessed, though. I mean, you've grown up to be successful and well adjusted and, of course, unhappy, the way a man is supposed to feel in this world. Just pulling your leg, son.

Redemption is overrated.

We are really competing against ourselves, we have no control over how other people perform.

The boy admonished himself for wanting everything to be a story. And now realized that some journeys were not stories. On some journeys, nothing really happened. You just kept taking steps.

When we disburden ourselves of old unresolved traumas, energy wasted holding the past at bay becomes available for celebrating daily life.

Many of the successful therapies I have guided come to an end when the client gains an earned secure relationship outside of our therapy. This is typically a partner or best friend with whom the person can truly be themselves.

Grieving expands Insight and Understanding

As Sheryl Shetsky says to other people who are fighting brain tumors, "Don't try to get back to who you were then. This is likely a new and improved you in many ways; moving on is the way to go.

If there is no transformation inside of us, all the structural change in the world will have impact on our institutions.

We make the effort because the effort itself extends the boundaries of our abilities. What we do shapes who we become and what we're capable of doing. The more we do, the more we can do.

Io mi sento me stesso solamente quando sono solo. Il rapporto con gli altri non mi viene naturale: mi richiede uno sforzo.

Strength Doesn't Come From What You Can Do. Strength Comes From Overcoming The Things You Once Thought You Couldn't.