Personal Growth Quotes

"time treading water and trying to keep your head above the waves that you forget, truly forget, how much you have always loved to swim."

- Tyler Knott Gregson

"I am trying to find myself. Sometimes that's not easy."

- Marilyn Monroe

"“If you are not where you want to be, do not quit. Instead reinvent yourself and change your habits.”"

- Eric Thomas

"“When we strive to become better than we are, everything around us becomes better too.”"

- Paulo Coelho

"“Abandon anything about your life and habits that might be holding you back. Learn to create your own opportunities.”"

- Sophia Amoruso

"“If you don’t design your own life plan, chances are you’ll fall into someone else’s plan and guess what they have planned for you? Not much.”"

- Jim Rohn

"“Make each day your masterpiece.”"

- John Wooden

"You can’t get there by bus, only by hard work and risk and by not quite knowing what you’re doing. What you’ll discover will be wonderful. What you’ll discover will be yourself."

- Alan Alda

"As an adoptee, so many pieces of my identity were a mystery. I’ve spent so much time trying to figure out who I am and what my purpose is. Going through the reunification process shifted all of my identity work. Now I live my life balancing two deeply conflicting feelings: infinite gratitude for who I am as part of my Adoptive family and an infinite longing for who I would’ve been as a part of my Biological family."

- Ellie Rosen

"Adoption made me a stranger to myself."

- Jessica R.

"Adoption has been a part of my life and a part of my family, so it was how I wanted to start. It felt natural and right to me."

- Katherine Heigl

"At some point in a woman’s life, she just gets tired of being ashamed all the time. After that, she is free to become whoever she truly is."

- Elizabeth Gilbert

"The challenge is not to be perfect… it’s to be whole."

- Jane Fonda

"One is not born a woman, but becomes one."

- Simone de Beauvoir

"Friends are people who help you be more yourself, more the person you are intended to be, and it is possible that without them, we don’t recognize ourselves or grow to be what it is in us to be."

- Merle Shain

"Know that you can start late, look different, be uncertain, and still succeed."

- Misty Copeland

"My world has changed, and so have I. I have learned to choose and I have learned to say goodbye."

- Pocahontas

"I guess that’s part of growing up, too—saying good-bye to the things you used to love."

- Jenny Han

"I should know enough about loss to realize that you never really stop missing someone-you just learn to live around the huge gaping hole of their absence."

- Alyson Noel

""Life begins at the end of your comfort zone.""

- Neale Donald Walsch

""What you get by achieving your goals is not as important as what you become by achieving your goals.""

- Zig Ziglar

"If today you are a little bit better than you were yesterday, then that’s enough."

- David A. Bednar

"Your work is to discover your world and then with all your heart give yourself to it."

- Buddha

"The Moon can only fill up once it becomes empty. And it can only shine in all its glory once it's gone through its darkest expression. It doesn't berate its darkness or wish for it to be any other way (as far as we know)."

- Carl Jung

"Every day, it's a different version of itself. Sometimes weak and wan, sometimes strong and full of light. The Moon understands what it means to be human. Uncertain. Alone. Cratered by imperfections."

- Tahereh Mafi

"We are going to the moon that is not very far. Man has so much farther to go within himself."

- Anaïs Nin

"My father was the best person I have ever known and though he was taken from me on that day, nothing and no one will ever be able to take away the eight years and two days of my life that I shared with him. After my father died, and after I lost so much, I promised myself that I would never lose who I am as a person – the person that my father brought me up to be. … If you owe someone an apology, tell them you are sorry today. If someone asks for your forgiveness, forgive them. Start being the person you always wanted to be today and don’t waste your time worrying about tomorrow."

- Mary Kate McErlean

"The first thing you learn is sacrifice and how to keep moving forward in life, helping your parents to put food on the table. You learn to fight with your work. Then you start to learn values. That’s why, every time I pull on the Argentina shirt or any other, I think about the things that happened to me when I was a kid."

- Angel Di Maria

"The most important discovery true friends make is that they can grow separately without growing apart."

- Elisabeth Foley

"I have lived a thousand lives."