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“The Practice of Staying Sometime this week, choose one conversation you have been avoiding or managing carefully because it feels charged, tender, or unresolved. Before you enter it, pause. Take three slow breaths. Say quietly to yourself: “I am here to stay in relationship, not to win.” During the conversation, practice one simple discipline: Do not interrupt. Do not correct. Do not prepare your reply while the other person is speaking. Listen long enough to be changed. You do not need to resolve anything. You do not need to persuade anyone. Your only commitment is presence. Afterward, notice what shifted inside you. Not what you achieved, but what you encountered. That is the field where wisdom grows.”

“I reckon anger is the cigarette smoking of emotions. It's toxic, self-destructive, offensive, socially unacceptable, and harmful to others; it costs a lot and always leaves a bad taste in the mouth. It's also a mongrel to try to quit.”

“Realized knowledge is wisdom and transformation, while informative knowledge is logic and thinking. These two are entirely different dimensions and states of being.”

“We must discover our own path to joy and a sense of leading a purposeful existence. I spent the first part of life attempting to discern what a man ought to be, and spent the latter years attempting to reconcile why I was not the man whom I always aspired to be. A person endures a tragic consumption of the spirit when they discover that they are not what they desired to become.”

“Every civilization rests on these four pillars: marriage, family, society, and polity. If all four remain solid, then most people will know happiness and their civilization will flourish. But if any of these pillars cracks or crumbles, people—-perhaps very many people—-will become unhappy and the edifice of their civilization will run the risk of toppling.”

“I don't know why human life seems to require suffering for growth to take place, or why things have to be taken away from us if we are to expand. The pattern branded on the human heart seems to be that only pain brings lasting change, that we must learn how to grieve if we want to truly celebrate, that we have to get lost in order to be found again. The lesson of the grape seems to apply here: in order to get the life out, something has to be crushed.”

“Examining our behaviors and thought patterns demands sustained, uninterrupted self-work, and the fullness of our everyday lives and the finite attention spans that rove through them sometimes appear engineered to thwart personal investigations. For many, such an undertaking is undesirable in any case: Those of us content with our lives are not compelled to confront or interrogate our habits, lifestyles, or underlying beliefs. Contentment doesn't incentivize change--it does everything in its power to forestall it. But those of us learning to survive in the ill-disposed, unaccommodating terrain of afterlives--marooned on the desert islands we have little affinity for--must open ourselves up to it.”