Personal Growth Quotes

A willingness to let go of an old self and allow creative thoughts to remake a person into a better version of oneself requires an act of courage.

~ Kilroy J. Oldster

Growth is a slow process and so is change in behaviour. The therapist must be patient with the process.

~ Garry L. Landreth

We are the product of our past. We start each day where we left off the day before. Changing the way we dress, where we work and live, or even changing a name does not alter our basic constitution. Transformation of the self requires a radical alteration in the way that we perceive the world and derive meaning.

~ Kilroy J. Oldster

The ego might resist change until a person’s level of discomfort becomes unbearable. A person can employ logic to overcome the ego’s defense mechanism and intentionally integrate needed revisions in a person’s obsolete or ineffective beliefs and behavior patterns. The subtle sense that something is amiss in a person’s life can lead to a gradual or quick alteration in a person’s conscious thoughts and outlook on life. Resisting change can prolong unhappiness whereas implementing change can establish internal harmony and instate joy in a person’s life.

~ Kilroy J. Oldster

People undergo several sequential steps in maturing from infancy including childhood, adolescences, young adulthood, middle age, and old age. Each stage presents distinct challenges that require a person to amend how they think and act. The motive for seeking significant change in a person’s manner of perceiving the world and behaving vary. Alteration of person’s mindset can commence with a growing sense of awareness that a person is dissatisfied with an aspect of his or her life, which cause a person consciously to consider amending their lifestyle.

~ Kilroy J. Oldster

Change is essential for survival. All life forms must adapt to their fluctuating circumstances. All form of life result from the process of variation, mutation, competition, and inheritance. The universe is in a constant state of chaos. We each have chaos implanted into our bones. Nature wires all of us for change.

~ Kilroy J. Oldster

Exiting from any long-term relationship comes at great personal expense, which explains why so many people are understandably reluctant to endure the cost of severance. Beginnings and endings are always dramatic and occasionally traumatic. Youthful brio allows us to engage in transformation. As we age, we carefully weigh the spectacle of continuing enduring harrowing situations or seeking melodramatic renovation of our core being. Analysis of the respective cost benefit ratio, consideration of the known versus the unknown, can delay or permanently deter us from altering our environment, leading our persona to become more rigid as we mature. Transformations in life are disconcerting to people who resist change.

~ Kilroy J. Oldster

The teachings of the Mage Guild were that none of these others was real, no one else and nothing anywhere was real, that everything around him was merely a shadow born of Alain's own illusions. He had accepted that wisdom—until he had met Mari. In a world where nothing was allowed to change, Alain had been changed.He could let himself feel emotions again. He had learned what it meant to help someone else. He had learned what a friend was. He had forgotten what love was. Until he had fallen in love.

~ Jack Campbell

We Person-Centred Approach people are as human as anyone else after all, and, as does everyone, must daily face the difference between our aspirations and stated values, and our actual choices and behaviours, and the resulting outcomes. However, we keep giving ourselves a chance to change, again and again, thus more closely approximating our hopes for how we can be together

~ Gay Barfield

The ego is our pain, but it is what we know and we resist moving out of it.  The effort it takes to grow out of painful patterns often feels more uncomfortable than remaining within them.  Personal growth can be so painful because it can make us ashamed and humiliated to face our own darkness.   But the goal of personal growth is the journey out of dark emotional patterns which cause us pain to those which cause us peace.

~ Marianne Williamson

Some changes happen deep down inside of you. And the truth is, only you know about them.

~ Judy Blume

If you want to do something that really changes someone’s life, the best thing you can do is make the person you’re trying to help a participant in the process.

~ John Stahl-Wert

If you read, you will transform your life.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

I have found that most people are more willing to accept physical pain and limitation rather than acknowledge and deal with the mental and/or emotional pain that might have caused it.

~ Tobe Hanson

Real is the new beautiful

~ Renae A. Sauter

My unchanging resolution is to read the Holy Scriptures every year.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

Renewal of mind begins with mediation on the word of God.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

A person’s work allows their character to form and provides a creative outlet for their inner world of imaginative thoughts and creative impulses. A person whom fails to find suitable work that allows their soul room to grow will quickly begin eroding into a withered and desiccated being.

~ Kilroy J. Oldster

We are here for the evolution of our soul. This evolution happens through the management of both the ups and downs of physical life. Evolution is halted by pretending to be happy all the time

~ Renae A. Sauter

Immersed in surrender and gratitude, celestial pearls of wisdom form rosaries of prayer that entangle with my soul.

~ Earthschool Harmony

The structure of our identity determines how we show up as a leader, how we deploy ourselves into circumstances.

~ William A. Adams

Transformation is an acquired taste—not for the faint of heart.

~ Bob Anderson

When we step into positions of leadership, we make a whole set of promises we may not know we are making.

~ Bob Anderson

When manipulation flutters around everywhere, neither pull nor push anyone. Just do one thing - don't trust anyone!

~ Ashish Patel

A person does not reach the pinnacle of self-realization without relentlessly exploring the parameters of the self, exhausting their psychic energy coming to know oneself. Without society to rebel against and to sail away from, there would be no advances in civilization; there would be no need for healers and mystics, priests and artist, or shaman and writers. It is our curiosity and refusal to be satisfied with the status quo that compels us to challenge ourselves to learn and continue to grow. We only establish inner peace of mind with acceptance of the world, with the recognition of our connection to the entirety of the universe, and understanding that chaos and change are inevitable. We must also love because without love there are no acts of creation. Without love, humankind is a spasmodic pool of brutality and suffering. Love is a balm. It cures human aches and pains; it unites couples, families, and cultures. Love is a creative force, without love there is no art or religion. Art expresses thought and feelings, an articulation of adore and reverence.

~ Kilroy J. Oldster

Our art is never really ours. Each person who experiences it brings to it a piece of themselves and reacts to it in ways that stem from their personal struggles, beliefs, morals, and even hang-ups.

~ Teresa R. Funke

Literature provides a person with a conceptual framework for recognizing human beings recurrent challenges in life. Reading good literature deepens a person’s understanding of the variable ways that somebody might respond to circumstances in their world, thereby adding to their own potential intellectual and spiritual depth and expands their understanding of the nuances of their own personal behavior.

~ Kilroy J. Oldster

The average man is hooked to his fellow men, while the warrior is hooked only to infinity.

~ Carlos Castañeda

We wait for God to bless us while God waits for us to accept the blessing.

~ Betsy Otter Thompson

When I am centered on love I don't need to be better than you. I don't need to be rich. I don't even need to be extraordinary. When I am centered on love, who I am and where I am at is enough.

~ Renae A. Sauter

No one knows while experiencing their darkest hour that some day they may use that very experience to illuminate the ways for others. Nothing is ever wasted.

~ Renae A.sauter

Choosing to interpret all your experiences from a place of love will allow you to strengthen and empower yourself, while moving closer to the divine light.

~ Renae A. Sauter

I remain in a state of surrender knowing the Universe is supporting me in creating a life I love.

~ Renae A. Sauter

To forget is to render the pages of history as entirely blank, and the lessons of history as never taught.

~ Craig D. Lounsbrough

The greatest literature is the Biblical stories.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

Humankind’s greatest gift is that we are indeterminate beings. Unlike the tough and leathery seed of an acorn, which will grow into a magnificent oak tree, none of us has a predetermined final configuration of our ultimate essence. Our mental temperament is pliable. We make conscious and subconscious choices that govern who we become.

~ Kilroy J. Oldster

I feel like every project I work on is a dream project, so long as I am learning.

~ Simeon Kondev

When personal growth is missing, there is no peace.

~ Farshad Asl

A smile is a light within you being turned on, it can illuminate the path for you and others.

~ Gillian Duce

Always grow with changes and not against them.

~ Debasish Mridha