Personal Growth Quotes

"Be always at war with your vices, at peace with your neighbors, and let each New Year find you a better man."

- Benjamin Franklin

"Baseball is a lot like life. It's a day-to-day existence, full of ups and downs. You make the most of your opportunities in baseball as you do in life."

- Ernie Harwell

"Though I still have no semblance of a life outside of Nine Inch Nails at the moment, I realize my goals have gone from getting a record deal or selling another record to being a better person, more well-rounded, having friends, having a relationship with somebody."

- Trent Reznor

"I want them to come away with discovering the music inside them. And not thinking about themselves as jazz musicians, but thinking about themselves as good human beings, striving to be a great person and maybe they'll become a great musician."

- Charlie Haden

"There's a lot of integrity with musicians; you really still aspire to grow, and be great, to be the best version of yourself you can be."

- Sheryl Crow

"True yoga is not about the shape of your body, but the shape of your life. Yoga is not to be performed; it is to be lived. Yoga doesn’t care about what you have been; it cares about the person you are becoming. Yoga is designed for a vast and profound purpose, and for it to be truly called yoga, its essence must be embodied."

- Aadil Palkhivala

"Yoga is not about touching your toes. It is what you learn on the way down."

- Jigar Gor

"Remember, it doesn’t matter how deep into a posture you go – what does matter is who you are when you get there."

- Max Strom

"Yoga is the journey of the self, through the self, to the self."

- The Bhagavad Gita

"The longest journey of any person is the journey inward."

- Dag Hammarskjold

"Yoga is not a work-out, it is a work-in."

- Rolf Gates

"True yoga is not about the shape of your body, but the shape of your life. Yoga is not to be performed; yoga is to be lived. Yoga doesn’t care about what you have been; yoga cares about the person you are becoming. Yoga is designed for a vast and profound purpose, and for it to be truly called yoga, its essence must be embodied."

- Aadil Palkhivala

"Although yoga has its origins in ancient India, its methods and purposes are universal, relying not on cultural background, faith or deity, but simply on the individual. Yoga has become important in the lives of many contemporary Westerners, sometimes as a way of improving health and fitness of the body, but also as a means of personal and spiritual development."

- Tara Fraser

"The study of asana is not about mastering posture. It's about using posture to understand and transform yourself."

- B.K.S. Iyengar

""Travel far enough, you meet yourself.""

- David Mitchell

"Your self is created by your memories and your memories are created by your mental habits."

- Rick Warren

"Your memory is the glue that binds your life together; everything you are today is because of your amazing memory. You are a data collecting being, and your memory is where your life is lived."

- Kevin Horsley

"Be not the slave of your own past - plunge into the sublime seas, dive deep, and swim far, so you shall come back with new self-respect, with new power, and with an advanced experience that shall explain and overlook the old."

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

"People who repent and do good deeds truly return to God."

- Quran 25:71

"Each new friendship can make you a new person, because it opens up new doors inside of you."

- Kate DiCamillo

"I might hit developmental and societal milestones in a different order than my peers, but I am able to accomplish these small victories on my own time."

- Haley Moss

"I might hit developmental and social milestones in a different order than my peers, but I am able to accomplish these small victories on my own time."

- Haley Moss

"You can be uncomfortable and you can also recognize so many other things about yourself. Being able to recognize that there's more out of every situation and we have the choice and the opportunity to pick which part of that situation we're going to focus on."

- Kisha Bashkiharatee

"The only victory that counts is the one over yourself."

- Lionel Messi

"I love cold weather."

- Seth Rogen

"I like the cold weather better than the hot weather."

- Rosie Perez

"I can't help it if I like cold weather. It's the hot weather I can't stand."

- Mike Webster

"The study of asana is not about mastering posture. It’s about using posture to understand and transform yourself."

"Travel fills your life with stories to tell."

"Indeed, Allah will not change the condition of a people until they change what is in themselves."