1,725 Quotes About Personal-growth

You‟re your own opera, your own sad mimeLaugh at yourself-you‟re funnySmile at yourself-your life is sunnyCry when you hurt-only you can feel itSnivel and mope-you‟ll deaden itBe your own hospital, your therapistYour own developer, your industrialistNo one will stretch out and saveYou‟re the best you are, you‟re all you have.

Your thoughts become your BELIEFS. Your beliefs become your TRUTH. Your truth becomes your STORY. Your story IS your REALITY.

If I am a compilation of nothing but myself, I will have lived a life where I became nothing more than myself. And while it might be true that we all begin with ourselves, to end there is to end in a terribly small place.

Personal growth entails harnessing a person’s illicit and destructive passions.

Turn your weakness into your richness.

I want to share my story, and I want to know yours. I believe with all my heart that sharing our stories, the real, ugly, broken ones, is one of the most powerful things in the world, because to share our story we must first accept it. We must own it. We must stop running from it or shoving it into the corner when company comes over. To share our story is to admit that we've been changed.

Stop listening to the TV tell you about America the beautiful . . . get up and be America the beautiful.

Change isn't always comfortable, but it always teaches us something of utmost importance – usually about ourselves – and we become better people for it.

Was I fearless? No. I think as I've gotten older (I'm 28, to answer your question), I've learned to release myself more. Not to hold back. To be exactly who I am, whether that's 'different' or not. I imagine I will only continue to learn and grow into myself. I want to uncover all parts of me.