CURATED COLLECTION

Growing as a Person

Growth rarely feels like growth while it's happening — it mostly just feels like discomfort.

36 quotes found

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You have to believe that you’ll be okay. Because you will.

—Hanya YanagiharaNovelist & Editor

Digital Age ERA • North America

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There are two basic motivating forces: fear and love. When we are afraid, we pull back from life.

—John LennonMusician & Activist

Post-War ERA • Western Europe

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Healing is not linear. I keep relearning this.

—Terese Marie MailhotAuthor

Digital Age ERA • North America

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Vulnerability is not winning or losing; it's having the courage to show up when you can't control the outcome.

—Brené BrownAuthor

Digital Age ERA • North America

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The mind is restless, turbulent, obstinate, and very strong, O Krishna, and to subdue it, I think, is more difficult than controlling the wind.

—Bhagavad GitaAuthor & Thinker

Ancient World ERA • South Asia

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No one can be happy who has not been honest with herself.

—Henrik IbsenPlaywright

Industrial Age ERA • Nordic

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The Revolution has made me a better writer, but a worse human being.

—Isaac BabelWriter

Early Modern ERA • Eastern Europe

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Suffering has been stronger than all other teaching, and has taught me to understand what your heart used to be.

—Charles DickensNovelist & Critic

Industrial Age ERA • Western Europe

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Your pain is the breaking of the shell that encloses your understanding.

—Kahlil GibranPoet, Philosopher & Artist

Early Modern ERA • MENA

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Love is a dangerous thing. It can break you, but it can also make you.

—Akwaeke EmeziAuthor

Digital Age ERA • West Africa

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To believe you are magnificent. And gradually to discover that you are not magnificent.

—Czesław MiłoszPoet, Novelist & Essayist

Post-War ERA • Eastern Europe

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I'd rather be whole than good.

—Carl JungPsychiatrist

Post-War ERA • Western Europe

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I'm still learning how to love myself.

—CelesteScholar & Thinker

Digital Age ERA • Caribbean

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I wrote because I could not speak. The words chose me.

—Terese Marie MailhotAuthor

Digital Age ERA • North America

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To survive trauma means to remember trauma.

—Jenny ZhangPoet & Writer

Digital Age ERA • East Asia

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Vulnerability is not weakness; it's our greatest measure of courage.

—Brené BrownAuthor

Digital Age ERA • North America

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It's not about being fearless, but doing it scared anyway.

—Bozoma Saint JohnAuthor & Thinker

Digital Age ERA • West Africa

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Mistakes are always forgivable, if one has the courage to admit them.

—Bruce LeeMartial Artist & Philosopher

Post-War ERA • East Asia

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Your story matters, even the parts that feel broken. Especially those parts.

—Roseanne A. BrownAuthor

Digital Age ERA • West Africa

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I'm the gap between my desire and what life has made of me.

—Fernando PessoaPoet & Writer

Early Modern ERA • Southern Europe

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