Quotes and Bible Verses

"Difficult roads often lead to beautiful destinations."

"The best feeling is when someone appreciates everything about you that someone else took for granted."

"Don't find love, let love find you. That's why it's called falling in love because you don't force yourself fall. You just fall."

"Don't let the person who didn't love you keep you from the one who will."

"Don't kill yourself over a boy. He'll bring another girl to your funeral."

"If it doesn't break your heart, it isn't love."

"Guys, if a girl is stupid enough to love you after you broke her heart, SHE IS THE ONE."

"Don't change so people will like you, be yourself and the right people will love the real you."

"Life is like an elevator; on your way up, sometimes, you have to stop and let some people off."

"Common sense is like deodorant. The people who need it most never use it."

"Fake people don't surprise, me anymore. Loyal people do."

"Accept what is, let go of what was and have faith in what will be."

"Don't ask why someone keeps hurting you,ask why you keep letting them."

"Forget what hurt you, but never forget what it taught you."

DEFINING THE SELF, ORIGIN OF PERSONAL DEVELOPMENT, PSYCHOLOGY DEVELOPMENT AND ADOLESCENCE

*Adolescence is the time when young people start to ask questions about themselves, about their future, and even about their religious and political beliefs.

*It is believed that the words “Know Thyself,” which were written at the entry of the oracle at Delphi by six Greek philosophers, statesmen, and lawgivers, became the cornerstone of Western philosophy.

"KNOW THYSELF"

*The most important thing to pursue was self-knowledge, and admitting one’s ignorance is the beginning of true knowledge. - Socrates

*The beginning of knowledge is self-knowledge.  - Plato

*The wisdom in knowing oneself. - Other Ancient Philosophers

*Who am I in the midst of all this thought traffic?- Persian Poet, Rumi

*Enquiry into the truth of the “Self” is knowledge. - Ancient Hindu writings Upanishads 

*Celebrated his “Self”as “a simple, separate person.”-  American poet Walt Whitman 

PERSONAL DEVELOPMENT, HOLISTIC DEVELOPMENT AND HUMAN DEVELOPMENT

WHAT IS PERSONAL DEVELOPMENT?

•  Is a lifelong process. It is a way for people to assess their skills and qualities, consider their aims in life and set goals in order to realize and maximize their potential.
• Personal development covers activities that improve awareness and identity, develop talents and potential, build human capital and facilitate employability, enhance the quality of life and contribute to the realization of dreams and aspirations. Personal development takes place over the course of a person's entire life. Not limited to self-help, the concept involves formal and informal activities for developing others in roles such as teacher, guide, counselor, manager, life coach or mentor. When personal development takes place in the context of institutions, it refers to the methods, programs, tools, techniques, and assessment systems that support human development at the individual level in organizations.
• as process in which persons reflect upon the understand who they are, accept what they discover about themselves and learn (or unlearn) new sets of values, attitudes behavior and thinking skills to reach their fullest potential as human beings.

WHAT IS PERSONAL?

• affecting, or belonging to a particular person rather than to anyone else.
• referring or directed to a particular person in a disparaging or offensive sense or manner, usually involving character, behavior, appearance, etc
• Someone whose job involves working for or helping a particular person
• Made or designed to be used by one person