Quotes About Growth

As Nice Guys stop seeking approval and stop trying to hide their perceived flaws, they open a door to start getting what they really want in love and life.

Don't handicap your children by making their lives easy.

Learning isn't a means to an end; it is an end in itself.

Don't handicap your children by making their lives easy.

it is almost always the case that whatever has wounded you will also be instrumental in your healing.

If you can touch your shadow—within form—and do something out of your ordinary pattern, a great deal of energy will flow from it.

The purpose of learning to work with the unconscious is not just to resolve our conflicts or deal with our neuroses. We find there a deep source of renewal, growth, strength, and wisdom. We connect with the source of our evolving character; we cooperate with the process whereby we bring the total self together; we learn to tap that rich lode of energy and intelligence that waits within.

A buddha is the butterfly that finally emerges from the cocoon of the human life-form. (p. 63)

Why should I keep doing things that I've done before?

In every marriage more than a week old there are grounds for divorce. The trick is to find and continue to find grounds for marriage.

The sad thing is that, even though we know our lives aren't working in certain areas, we are still afraid to change. We are locked into our comfort zone, no matter how self-destructive it may be. Yet, the only way to get out of our comfort zone and to be free of our problems and limitations is to get uncomfortable.

Never be afraid to expose a weakness in yourself. Exposing a weakness is the beginning of strength.

The rewards in life go to those who are willing to give up the past.

The biggest risk in life is not risking.

When it becomes more difficult to suffer than to change... you will change.

we will always be attracted to the situation or person that we need, in any given moment, in order to learn whatever lesson that we need to learn. The most important thing is to learn the lesson quickly, let go, and then move on.

When Spring has sprung... Spring with it!

In investing, what is comfortable is rarely what is profitable.

In investing, what is comfortable is rarely profitable.

No matter how intellectual and multicolored motherhood becomes as children grow older, the part that says My purpose on earth is to keep you alive has never totally dissipated. Magical thinking on all sides.

Figure out for yourself what you want to be really good at, know that you'll never really satisfy yourself that you've made it, and accept that that's okay

Every day in every way, I'm getting better. —EMILE COUE

Actually he wrote, "A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds." For some obscure reason, a central distinction had been lost as the years eroded the accurate version of his statement to mean something entirely different and, upon close inspection, entirely silly.44

Consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds." Or, at least, so goes a frequently heard quotation attributed to Ralph Waldo Emerson.