Cary Grant Quotes

I do have a bit of empathy I suppose, but it has come more recently as I'm knocking on 30's door and I think I'm getting there.

The more that we self-analyze ourselves, the nicer we are to people and to ourselves, and the more we understand each other.

The act of loving is an act of self-evolution even when the purpose of the act is someone else's growth.

I've done a lot of growing up since the age of 16 and I really wanted that to be reflected in my music.

Part of spiritual and emotional maturity is recognizing that it's not like you're going to try to fix yourself and become a different person. You remain the same person, but you become awakened.

I've certainly had a lot of experiences in my life where I was much too self-centered.

I have a lot of growing up to do, or a lot of growing down. I think that's probably more appropriate.

Like everybody, I've had a lot of pain in my life and I'm a work in progress. You must have a true desire to see the world from a different point of view, and that comes with growing up.

I've grown so much, not just as an actor, but as a human being.

I've been in therapy. I know enough about myself now to know that I really don't need to know anymore.

A degree of self-awareness is extremely valuable... I hope I have that going forward.

I learned so much, and I feel I have grown as an actor and as a person.

With time, you do get mature.

In a series of wonderful essays, Evan Handler gives himself up to us - warts and all. To our amusement and bemusement we share in his emotional growth as he struggles to mature. I not only laughed along with him but felt that I too had grown a little along the way. Who could ask for more?

Read not books alone, but men, and amongst them chiefly thyself.

It's really about connecting to your own humanity and your own behaviors, and getting to a level of self-awareness so that you can have perspective and step outside of yourself and transform and become another person.

I don't want to sound like a self-help book, but it really has been transformative for me to take a look at my relationships in a new way and see my part in them. Everybody's going through that.

It's a real luxury to be able to develop with your character.

If someone is self-aware, then they can always continue to grow. If they're not self-aware, I think it's harder for them to evolve or adapt beyond who they already are.

I have a lot of growing up to do. I realized that the other day inside my fort.

You have to start knowing yourself so well that you begin to know other people. A piece of us is in every person we can ever meet.

I have a lot of responsibilities, but I don't think I've grown up.

Oh well, perhaps when you're my age you'll know the heart is an untrustworthy beast.The mind too,but it doesn't talk about love.

For most people, self-awareness and self-pity blossom simultaneously in early adolescence. It's about that time that we start viewing the world as something other than a whoop-de-doo playground, we start to experience personally how threatening it can be, how cruel and unjust. At the very moment when we become, for the first time, both introspective and socially conscientious, we receive the bad news that the world, by and large, doesn't give a rat's ass.

One wouldn't want to have the same dilemmas at 50 as one had at 15. And indeed I don't. I have a very different take on life.