Quotes about personal development
The meeting of two personalities is like the contact of two chemical substances: if there is any reaction, both are transformed.
The only way to make sense out of change is to plunge into it, move with it, and join the dance.
When you find your path, you must not be afraid. You need to have sufficient courage to make mistakes. Disappointment, defeat, and despair are the tools that life uses to show us the way.
When we love, we always strive to become better than we are. When we strive to become better than we are, everything around us becomes better too.
The only journey is the one within.
Live your questions now, and perhaps even without knowing it, you will live along some distant day into your answers.
Let everything happen to you: beauty and terror. Just keep going. No feeling is final.
And once the storm is over, you won’t remember how you made it through, how you managed to survive. You won’t even be sure, whether the storm is really over. But one thing is certain. When you come out of the storm, you won’t be the same person who walked in. That’s what this storm’s all about.
It's no good trying to keep up old friendships. It's painful for both sides. The fact is, one grows out of people, and the only thing is to face it.
The point is not for us simply to survive, but to live in that deeper sense.
The deeper the experience of an absence of meaning, the more meaning is needed.
As the births of living creatures are at first ill-shapen, so are all innovations, which are the births of time.
All of old. Nothing else ever. Ever tried. Ever failed. No matter. Try again. Fail again. Fail better.
Ever tried. Ever failed. No matter. Try again. Fail again. Fail better.
I want to go in. I never want to finish. I quote myself as saying to a friend: But I never want to finish.
Risk! Risk anything! Do the hardest thing on earth for you. Act for yourself. Face the truth.
Faith is not something to grasp, it is a state to grow into.
To know fully even one field or one land is a lifetime's experience. In the world of poetic experience it is depth that counts, not width.
A thinker sees his own actions as experiments and questions--as attempts to find out something. Success and failure are for him answers above all.
Most people don't know how to listen because the major part of the world is still. If you can hold still, then you can hear things that you don't ordinarily hear.