Personal Growth Quotes

"The pleasure we find in thinking about the future comes not from imagining achieving our goals, but from the secret hope that we will somehow no longer be ourselves when we get there." "Day by day, what you do is who you become" "Good character is not formed in a week or a month. It is created little by little, day by day. Protracted and patient effort is needed to develop good character" "Go to the limits of your longing. Let everything happen to you." "Why do you want to shut out of your life any uneasiness, any miseries, any depressions? For after all, you do not know what work these conditions are doing inside you." "Only someone who is ready for everything, who doesn’t exclude any experience, even the most incomprehensible, will live the relationship with another person as something alive." "Perfection is not just a like for self-improvement, though. Perfectionism is a high-end, haute couture version of fear" "I've never seen any life transformation that didn't begin with the person in question finally getting tired of their own bullshit" "The best way to heal a broken heart, it turns out, is to find a way to move past the hurt" "I think the most important discipline I learned from poker was the method of decision making." "The distance between who I am and who I want to be is only separated by what I do." "If you are able to look yourself in the mirror every day with the decisions that you make, that's where power starts." "Be yourself because everyone else is already taken." "Live life to the fullest." "People are put into your life for seasons, for different reasons, and to teach you lessons." "I've noticed that worrying is like praying for what you don't want to happen" "People never change because they are under threat or under duress. Never. They change because they see something that makes their life seem valuable enough to start moving toward a life worth living" "Be at war with your vices, at peace with your neighbors, and let every new year find you a better man" "The warrior's approach is to say yes to life: say yea to it all" "If the path before you is clear, you're probably on someone else's"