Personal Growth Quotes

"Above all, be the hero of your life, not the victim." "Happiness does not lie in happiness, but in the achievement of it." "I’ve learned that whenever I decide something with an open heart, I usually make the right decision" "If you're always trying to be normal you will never know how amazing you can be" "Wouldn’t take nothing for my journey now" "You are your best thing" "People tend to become more emotionally intelligent as they age and mature." "An emotionally intelligent person can be a master of their feelings and an artist of their relationships." "Society changes only if people want it badly enough. And in that regard, emotional literacy can have the greatest effect of all: it empowers people to direct their lives." "The goal of education—no less than the goal of life—is to align one's avocations with one's vocations." "Boys who, at age 16, acquire emotional intelligence skills such as impulse control, empathy, and conflict management become well-adjusted 22-year-olds." "The teacher is of course an artist, but being an artist does not mean that he or she can make the profile, can shape the students. What the educator does in teaching is to make it possible for the students to become themselves" "Know that you are always your own best teacher, and the answers are always right at hand waiting for you to take the next step with courage and faith." "You can never plan the future by the past" "To learn to think is to learn to live" "To reach out to another is to risk involvement" "To expose feelings is to risk exposing your true self" "To try is to risk failure" "Love yourself. Accept yourself. Forgive yourself. And be good to yourself" "To teach how to live without certainty, and yet without being paralyzed by hesitation, is perhaps the chief thing that philosophy can do."