Personal Growth Quotes

"Life is not fair, and it never was and it is now and it won’t ever be. Do not fall into the entitlement trap, of feeling like you’re a victim You are not." "Persist, pivot, or concede. It’s up to us, our choice every time." "Life is our resume. It is our story to tell, and the choices we make write the chapters. Can we live in a way where we look forward to looking back?" "There is nothing more truly artistic than to love people." "I try more and more to be myself, caring relatively little whether people approve or disapprove." "I am still far from being what I want to be, but with God's help I shall succeed." "What would life be if we had no courage to attempt anything?" "Only when I fall do I get up again." "In the end we shall have had enough of cynicism, skepticism and humbug, and we shall want to live more musically." "The best way to keep one's word is not to give it." "The reason most people fail instead of succeed is they trade what they want most for what they want at the moment." "Every morning when I wake up, I experience an exquisite joy —the joy of being Salvador Dalí— and I ask myself in rapture: What wonderful things is this Salvador Dalí going to accomplish today?" "Mistakes are almost always of a sacred nature. Never try to correct them. On the contrary: rationalize them, understand them thoroughly. After that, it will be possible for you to sublimate them." "Intelligence without ambition is a bird without wings." "I think the thing to do is enjoy the ride while you’re on it." "If there’s any message to my work, it is ultimately that it’s OK to be different, that it’s good to be different, that we should question ourselves before we pass judgement on someone who looks different, behaves different, talks different, is a different " "We’re all damaged in our own way. Nobody’s perfect. I think we’re all somewhat screwy. Every single one of us." "There is nothing on earth that could ever make me want to relive certain years of my life when I was young." "There’s a drive in me that won’t allow me to do certain things that are easy." "I wake up every morning believing today is going to be better than yesterday."