1,725 Quotes About Personal-growth

In my personal life, especially as I am aging, I find that the biggest mistakes I make and the biggest risks I run all result form mindless hurrying.

The ego is our pain, but it is what we know and we resist moving out of it.  The effort it takes to grow out of painful patterns often feels more uncomfortable than remaining within them.  Personal growth can be so painful because it can make us ashamed and humiliated to face our own darkness.   But the goal of personal growth is the journey out of dark emotional patterns which cause us pain to those which cause us peace.

Luckily i went out and just did it, successfully, before i was told that it can't be done!Den-J

If you want to do something that really changes someone’s life, the best thing you can do is make the person you’re trying to help a participant in the process.

A successful person is just a novice who started and kept on going.

It takes a rare person to care the same or more about you than themselves. So, until you find that person, please look after yourself.

The biggest mistake people make in life is trying to be someone else. They never find themselves, so they never love themselves. Instead they find somebody else who they like a lot and try to be them.

Philosophy's greatest task is to enlarge our sense of possibility.

It's important to undermine yourself and create a level of difficulty so the work doesn't come too easily. The more comfortable you get, the more money you earn, the more successful you are, the harder it is to create situations where you have to prove yourself and make yourself not just want it, but need it. The stakes should always feel high.