Personal Growth What would personal growth be without an examination of our soul, our emotions, our goals and our outlook on life.  Finding out about ourselves can be one of our greatest joys, for within us, we may find all our answers and see that we are our own best friends.

 

 

"You have to leave the city of your comfort and go into the wilderness of your intuition. What you'll discover will be wonderful. What you'll discover is yourself." 

-Alan Alda

 

"Champions aren't made in the gyms. Champions are made from something they have deep inside them -- a desire, a dream, a vision."

-Muhammad Ali

 

"You are today where your thoughts have brought you; you will be tomorrow where your thoughts take you."

-James Allen

 

"Life is not measured by the number of breaths we take, but by the moments that take our breath away.  You cannot discover new oceans, unless you have the courage to lose sight of the shore."

-Unknown

 

"Here is a test to see if your mission on earth is finished. If you are alive, it isn't."

-Sir Francis Bacon

 

"We would worry less about what others think of us if we realized how seldom they do."

-Ethel Barrett

 

"Our attitudes control our lives. Attitudes are a secret power working 24 hours a day, for good or bad. It is of paramount importance that we know how to harness and control this great force."

-Tom Blandi

 

"When I stand before God at the end of my life, I would hope that I would not have a single bit of talent left, and could say, 'I used everything you gave me."

-Erma Bombeck

 

"Let the world know you as you are, not as you think you should be, because sooner or later, if you are posing, you will forget the pose, and then where are you?"

-Fanny Brice

 

"You are the only real obstacle in your path to a fulfilling life."

-Les Brown

 

"All that we are arises with our thoughts.  With our thoughts, we make our world."

-Buddha

 

"Believe nothing, no matter where you read it, or who said it, no matter if I have said it, unless it agrees with your own reason and your own common sense."

-Buddha

 

"We don’t always know what makes us happy. We know, instead, what we think should. We are baffled and confused when our attempts at happiness fail...We are mute when it comes to naming accurately our own preferences, delights, gifts, talents. The voice of our original self is often muffled, overwhelmed, even strangled, by the voices of other people’s expectations. The tongue of the original self is the language of the heart."

 

"Take a chance! All life is a chance. The man who goes the furthest is generally the one who is willing to do and dare."

-Dale Carnegie

 

"What consumes your mind, controls your life."

-Creed

 

"It is our duty as men and women to proceed as though the limits of our abilities do not exist."

-Pierre Teilhard de Chardin

 

"If you are not busy being born, you are busy dying."

 

"If you wait until the wind and weather are just right, you will never plant anything and never harvest anything."

-Ecclesiastes 11:4

 

"Only those who risk going too far can possibly know how far one can go."

-T. S. Elliot

 

"What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us."

-Ralph Waldo Emerson

 

"We are not troubled by things, but by the opinions which we have of things."

-Epictetus

 

-Sonya Friedman

 

"A smooth sea never made a skillful mariner."

-An English Proverb

 

"The world we have created is a product of our thinking; it cannot be changed without changing our thinking."

-Albert Einstein

 

"Do your best to treat others as you would wish to be treated yourself, and you will find that this is the shortest road to peace."

-Confuciuos

 

"Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate. Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure. It is our light , not our darkness, that most frightens us. We ask ourselves, who am I to be brilliant, gorgeous, talented and fabulous?

Actually, who are you not to be?

You are a child of god. Your playing small doesn't serve the world. There's nothing enlightened about shrinking so that other people won't feel insecure around you.

We were born to make and manifest the glory of god that is within us. It's not just in some of us; it's in everyone. And as we let our own light shine, we unconsciously give other people permission to do the same. As we are liberated from our own fear, our presence automatically liberates others."

-Marianne Williamson

 

"If you don't run your own life, somebody else will."

 

"We would worry less about what others think of us if we realized how seldom they do."

-Ethel Barrett

 

"The only thing that stands between a man and what he wants from life is often merely the will to try it and the faith to believe that it is possible."

 

 "You can accomplish anything in life, provided that you do not mind who gets the credit."

 

"The vision must be followed by the venture.  It is not enough to stare up the steps - we must step up the stairs.

 

"A true knowledge of ourselves is knowledge of our power."

 

"You are your own raw material. When you know what you consist of and what you want to make of it, then you can invent yourself."

 

"And our dreams are who we are."

 

"Life’s blows cannot break a person whose spirit is warmed at the fire of enthusiasm."

 

"Feel gratitude that you have made it to this point and take responsibility for what comes next."

 

“Service to others is the rent you pay for your room here on earth.”
-Muhammud Ali

 

"There is no such thing in anyone’s life as an unimportant day."

 

"In life, stress happens when you resist what arises."

 

"The greatest discovery of my generation is that a human being can alter their life by altering their attitude of mind."

 

"If you're proactive, you don't have to wait for circumstances or other people to create perspective expanding experiences. You can consciously create your own."

 

"Nothing is lost upon a man who is bent upon growth; nothing wasted on one who is always preparing for - life by keeping eyes, mind and heart open to nature, men, books, experience - and what he gathers serves him at unexpected moments in unforeseen ways."

 

"Nurture great thoughts, for you will never go higher than your thoughts."

 

"The quickest way to access all of your true potential and actually experience it, instead of just hearing or reading about it, is the power of surrender. Surrender is probably not the most attractive or appealing word to most people. In fact, surrender is usually equated with giving up, losing, and defeat. But the opposite is true: you will never gain true power until you relinquish all human control and tap into your Divine potential within."