CURATED COLLECTION

Growing as a Person

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

50 quotes found

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A person can be born twice: the second time when you realize you only have one life.

—Gabriel García MárquezNovelist

Post-War ERA • Latin America

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The superior person learns from the many, and thus broadens his understanding.

—I ChingAuthor & Thinker

Ancient World ERA • East Asia

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The first principle is that you must not fool yourself — and you are the easiest person to fool.

—Richard FeynmanPhysicist & General

Post-War ERA • North America

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She knew that love was like a seed; it needed care to grow.

—Laura EsquivelNovelist

Late Modern ERA • Latin America

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Fear is the cheapest room in the house. I would like to see you living in better conditions.

—HafizLyric Poet

Medieval ERA • MENA

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Man will become better when you show him what he is like.

—Anton ChekhovWriter & Playwright

Industrial Age ERA • Eastern Europe

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Our greatest glory is not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall.

—ConfuciusPhilosopher

Ancient World ERA • East Asia

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If you live long enough, you'll make mistakes. But if you learn from them, you'll be a better person.

—Simone de BeauvoirExistentialist Philosopher & Feminist

Post-War ERA • Western Europe

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It is never too late to be what you might have been.

—George EliotScholar & Thinker

Industrial Age ERA • Western Europe

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Happiness is beneficial for the body, but it is grief that develops the powers of the mind.

—Marcel ProustNovelist

Early Modern ERA • Western Europe

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We can easily forgive a child who is afraid of the dark. The real tragedy is men afraid of light.

—PlatoPhilosopher

Ancient World ERA • Southern Europe

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One must have sufficient love of oneself to wish to become more estimable.

—Suzanne NeckerWriter, Reformer & Revolutionary

Enlightenment ERA • Western Europe

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No one saves us but ourselves. We ourselves must walk the path.

—Gautama BuddhaSpiritual Teacher

Ancient World ERA • South Asia

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Search others for their virtues, thy self for thy vices.

—Benjamin FranklinPolymath & Statesman

Enlightenment ERA • North America

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That which does not kill us makes us stronger.

—Friedrich NietzschePhilosopher

Industrial Age ERA • Western Europe

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Illness is the doctor to whom we pay most heed; to kindness, to knowledge, to truth, we can be deaf.

—Marcel ProustNovelist

Early Modern ERA • Western Europe

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The greatest sorrow is that a person cannot decide his own destiny.

—Lu XunWriter, Essayist & Critic

Early Modern ERA • East Asia

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What is important is not to have been without fault, but to have risen again.

—Friedrich SchillerPoet, Philosopher & Playwright

Enlightenment ERA • Western Europe

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To know that you do not know is the best. To think you know when you do not is a disease.

—Lao TzuPhilosopher

Ancient World ERA • East Asia

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The true battle is not against an enemy, but against the weakness within us.

—Earl LovelaceNovelist & Playwright

Post-War ERA • Caribbean

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