Quotes about personal development
Act as if you are infinite in power and demand and you will become so.
The nature of nations is to form and grow by means of metaphors.
A wise man gets more use from his enemies than a fool from his friends.
Life is the standing up of the soul.
Let your mind expand beyond limits, for it is in boundless curiosity that true wisdom is found.
True knowledge comes from seeking wisdom, not merely accumulation of information.
Living an unexamined life is contrary to one's own best interests.
Withdraw into yourself and look. And if you do not find yourself beautiful yet, act as does the creator of a statue that is to be made beautiful: he cuts away here, he smoothes there, he makes this line lighter, this other purer, until a lovely face has grown upon his work. So do you also: cut away all that is excessive, straighten all that is crooked, bring light to all that is overcast, labor to make all one glow of beauty and never cease chiseling your statue.
No man steps in the same river twice, for it's not the same river and he's not the same man.
Well-being is attained by little and little, and nevertheless is no little thing itself.
There are two ways of spreading light: to be the candle or the mirror that reflects it.
Do not be embarrassed by your failures, learn from them and start again.
If you are told that a certain person speaks ill of you, do not make excuses about what is said of you but answer, 'He was ignorant of my other faults, else he would not have mentioned these.'
A little and a little, collected together, becomes a great deal; the heap in the barn consists of single grains, and drop and drop make the inundation.
Stop acting so small. You are the universe in ecstatic motion.
Do not be satisfied with the stories that come before you. Unfold your own myth.
Yesterday I was clever, so I wanted to change the world. Today I am wise, so I am changing myself.
The wound is the place where the Light enters you.
The function of prayer is not to influence God, but rather to change the nature of the one who prays.
A hurtful act is the transference to others of the degradation which we bear in ourselves.