Quotes about Personal Growth

The personal life deeply lived always expands into truths beyond itself.

Nothing can work me damage except myself. The harm that I sustain I carry about with me, and never am a real sufferer but by my own fault.

Man can acquire accomplishments or he can become an animal, whichever he wants. God makes the animals, man makes himself.

If I had one wish for my children, it would be that each of them would reach for goals that have meaning for them as individuals.

Our past is a story existing only in our minds. Look, analyze, understand, and forgive. Then, as quickly as possible, chuck it.

You can never have an impact on society if you have not changed yourself.

A beautiful person is a person who is capable of being the best version of himself/herself, inside and out as often as possible.

We are responsible for our own destiny. What matters is how we improve ourselves from this moment forward.

If you put yourself in a position where you have to stretch outside your comfort zone, then you are forced to expand your consciousness.

I'm glad I did it, partly because it was worth it, but mostly because I shall never have to do it again.

It's just like magic. When you live by yourself, all your annoying habits are gone!.

When I lose the sense of motivation and the sense to prove something as a basketball player, it's time for me to move away from the game.

I am not the person who is singing I am the silent one inside. . . . I am not my house, my car, my songs They are only stops along my way. . . .

I've matured since joining United, on and off the field.

Self-actualizing people must be what they can be.

I didn't really know what I wanted to do, but I knew the woman I wanted to become.

When you are calm, quiet and sensitive then you can expand. But when you are irritated, phobic, fearful, insensitive, and neurotic, you can't achieve anything.

Learning another language is like becoming another person.

You can do one of two things; just shut up, which is something I don't find easy, or learn an awful lot very fast, which is what I tried to do.

The practice of art isn't to make a living. It's to make your soul grow.

If you put your foot in it, be sure it's your best foot.

It wasn't until late high school and early college that I gained enough size and skill to make me welcome on intramural basketball teams.

When you exercise your freedom to express yourself at the lowest level, you ultimately condemn yourself to live at that level.

Be the answer not the question.