Quotes About Growth

When you grow up hard, when you grow up surviving, unfortunately, it helps.

When I was growing up, I thought everything was a life of friendship, respect, and sharing. But I discovered that unfortunately, you have people who aren't behaving in the same way but have hatred.

Let us forget the frustrations of the past and think of our unfulfilled potential.

When I was being honest with myself, I had to own that there was something about me that was drawing an energy in my life that left me feeling underserved and unfulfilled. I decided to grow. I decided to purge myself of anyone and anything that was not full of goodness, serving me or making me happy.

I don't think that Americans are ungrateful, not at all. But I do think that we are a young country, and we have a lot to learn.

Only after I faced the unhappiness of my first marriage did I start on the path of personal growth.

What joy can the years bring half so sweet as the unhappiness they've taken away?

I had a lot of failed relationships, a lot of unhappiness, a lot of shame and embarrassment, bad self-image stuff.

I used to be so intensely preoccupied by unhappiness... now there are times where you might get down, but you can move on much faster now.

We don't want to make the same mistakes twice, though I tend to take the positives from past experiences, even unhappy ones.

The unhappy truth is, learning is hard.

If you're always battling against getting older, you're always going to be unhappy, because it's going to happen anyhow.

People who've had very unhappy childhoods are pretty good at inventing themselves. If nobody invents you for yourself, nothing is left but to invent yourself for others.

I barely saw my mother, and the mom I saw was often angry and unhappy. The mother I grew up with is not the mother I know now. It's not the mother she became after my father died, and that's been the greatest prize of my life.

One of the reasons I was so unhappy for years was because I never embraced my emotions and I was trying to stay in control.

As Elton John, my days on pop radio are over, and I know that and I accept it and I'm not unhappy about it.

I'd like to think that, if I'm unhappy, that I would try and change things so I am happy.

I just realized one day that I was so unhappy. And not only that, but I didn't even like the person that I was. I didn't even know who I was. And so 'Shatter Me' is about first discovering what was under the shell and then learning to love that person that was under it. And then not being afraid to break free.

I've at times in my past been so unhappy, and thought, like, 'I would give anything for this not to be happening.' And, you know, as people say, time passes, and then you think, 'I'm kind of glad that happened to me.'

What makes me sad about school is that the people who are unhappy are unhappy because they don't believe it will change. And I just want to say: 'It does! High school ends and it's over.' I will tell anyone that it's OK to be unhappy at school, make lots of mistakes and then it will be over.

I'm always looking for something. Not in an unhappy way. I just like to try different things. I don't want to be morbid, but I'm not getting any younger.

Over the course of your life, you realize more and more who you are and how you want to spend your time. And it became clearer and clearer that I was very unhappy as an actress and didn't feel comfortable in my own skin. When I was younger, I thought it was because I wasn't successful enough.

My appetite for self-destruction and misery is greatly diminished. I'm not interested in being unhappy.

Towards the end with Pantera - although I was never unhappy with the music we were making - it became one-dimensional, and we wanted to open things back up.