Writing entails undertaking a spiritual journey, an exploration of the blemished self that is delightfully challenging, painfully arduous, and unfathomably rewarding. Writing allows an admittedly flawed person to artfully confront their inglorious personal history, examine the present, and cogitate upon the future. Thoughtful writing creates a person’s own precursors: it revises a person’s conception of the past into a more detailed, accurate, and comprehensive philosophical context, alters how a person perceives the “now,” and alters the course and outcome person’s future. Writing is the ultimate psychological experience and an immaculate method to examine a person’s thoughts, debunk a person’s delusion, and analyze a person’s values.

~ Kilroy J. Oldster

Kilroy J. Oldster Self Development Self Examination Self Exploration Self Growth Writing Writing Process

Maybe I didn't march to the same drummer as most people, but I could do things on my own and do them well. That was what I'd learned, little by little, in the year I turned sixteen. I was complete by myself.

~ Diane Schwemm

Diane Schwemm Laurel Self Discovery Self Growth

What we do to others, we do to ourselves.

~ Bryant Mcgill

Bryant Mcgill Interpersonal Relationships Self Growth Socialism

Don't try to be useful. Try to be yourself: that is enough & that makes all the difference.

~ Paulo Coelho

Paulo Coelho Ispiration Self Belief Self Growth

Independence and free thought is what makes a person grow. By giving people the freedom and space to figure out who they are and be that, you give them the power to grow.

~ Innocent Mwatsikesimbe

Innocent Mwatsikesimbe Freedom Inspiration Life People Self Growth

I knew it was the right thing to do because I started feeling some of the toxicity inside me melt away and peace begin to fill in the crevices

~ Kim C. Steadman

Kim C. Steadman Inspirational Self Growth

Comfort...was the key ingredient to making the prisoner crave the prison.

~ Ashim Shanker

Ashim Shanker Apathy Comfort Is A Prison Comfort Zone Craving Liberation Malaise Self Doubt Self Growth Self Imprisonment Spiritual Insights Stagnant Unrealized Potential

When you're sorting yourself out, family are not often the ones you can turn to. They represent the place of departure and not the place of arrival.

~ Witi Ihimaera

Witi Ihimaera Family Relationships Mothers Self Growth Siblings

When you learn to embrace your flaws is how you learn to love yourself, perfectly.

~ Nyki Edwinna

Nyki Edwinna Inspirational Love Self Growth

Every expert was once an amateur.

~ Jeekeshen Chinnappen

Jeekeshen Chinnappen Self Growth

What good is a fragile spirit, as when touched, shatters into a thousand pieces.

~ Aisha Mirza

Aisha Mirza Islamic Quotes Self Growth Self Help Spirituality

Sometimes you have to realise that things will never change if you don’t make a change yourself, and sometimes, you need to realise that it only happened so that you could learn something.

~ Charlotte Eriksson

Charlotte Eriksson Change Inspirational Motivational Realisation Self Growth

And this is what living next to a waterfall is like, Safran. Every widow wakes one morning, perhaps after years of pure and unwavering grieving, to realize she slept a good night's sleep, and will be able to eat breakfast, and doesn't hear her husband's ghost all the time, but only some of the time. Her grief is replaced with useful sadness. Every parent who loses a child finds a way to laugh again. The timbre begins to fade. The edge dulls. The hurt lessens. Every love is carved from loss. Mine was. Yours is. Yor great-great-great-grandchildren's will be. But we learn to live in that love

~ Jonathan Safran Foer

Jonathan Safran Foer Love Pain Self Growth

Equip yourself for your own needs.

~ Patti Digh

Patti Digh Self Growth Self Sufficiency Strength And Courage