"The most profound personal growth does not happen while reading a book or meditating on a mat. It happens in the throes of conflict-when you are angry, afraid, frustrated. It happens when you are doing the same old thing and you suddenly realize that you have a choice."

Growth, Conflict, Emotion, Realization

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"The most profound personal growth does not happen while reading a book or meditating on a mat. It happens in the throes of conflict-when you are angry, afraid, frustrated. It happens when you are doing the same old thing and you suddenly realize that you have a choice."

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"The cost of growth is always a small act of violence."

Jodi Picoult, American Novelist

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"What I mean is that those thoughts, they're human. And just because you turn out differently than everyone's imagined you would doesn't mean that you've failed in some way. A kid who gets teased in one school might move to a different one, and be the most popular girl there, just because no one has any other expectations of her. Or a person who goes to med school because his entire family is full of doctors might find out that what he really wants to be is an artist instead."

Jodi Picoult, American Novelist

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"You can't BREED at a place where you can't BREATHE. Therefore, FIX yourself where you FIT."

Israelmore Ayivor, Ghanaian Author

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"You will learn, but you have to act. You will be given, but you have to receive. Stretch your hands and take up your laurels by the power put in you!"

Israelmore Ayivor, Ghanaian Author

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"Accept corrections and you'll improve and increase."

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"All things are difficult before they are easy."

Thomas Fuller, English Clergyman

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"I think the worst part about a breakup sometimes, if one could choose a worst part, would possibly be if you get out of a relationship, and you don't recognize yourself because you changed a lot about you."

Taylor Swift, American Musician

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"He who doesn't want to face his challenges shall always face challenges!"

Ernest Agyemang Yeboah, Ghanaian Author

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"Everybody want to experience some form of pleasure in whatever they are doing and one of the sure ways of doing that is by seeing increase in your endeavors or results."

Sunday Adelaja, Nigerian Author

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"Good character going bad is like a beast escaping it's cage, it will be hard to capture it again!"

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"Apathy is, too often, a result of overexposure to stressful, highly emotional situations. To rekindle empathy, sometimes we need some space. It's okay to walk away so that you can feel love for someone again. Sometimes for a moment. Sometimes forever."

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"This is what a real teacher does: she opens the gates of our minds to the possibilities of the soul."

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"A happy person is not without sorrow or grief. Happiness is the acceptance of pain, not the lack of it."

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"I only accept your mistakes and flaws to the degree that I accept my own."

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"At the end of the day, your relationships with the people in your life will be greater assets than any material things. Take time. Be present. You'll thank yourself for it later."

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"Amazing relationships aren't about making one perfect choice in your choice of partner. They're about the infinite amount of choices you make in each conflict, each conversation, and each moment to open yourself and to stay open, even when it's hard."

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"If you ate nails, your stomach would hurt, and it's a good thing that it would. Eating nails is deadly, thus the pain is helpful. Like this, sadness, anger, and anxiety are not to be feared or shamed, but listened to and decoded."

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"It is not the path that you have trouble finding. You knew your path since your first daydream. It's courage you're searching for - courage to trust yourself and stop searching for a travel partner who knows better than you where to go. And courage is only built in action."

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"Sometimes "No" is the kindest word."

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"Don't let what you thought you were yesterday keep you from becoming what you're meant to be today."

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