Quotes About Growth

Anyone who would spend years absorbing the techniques of their field, trying them out, mastering them, exploring and personalizing them, would inevitebly find their authentic voice and give birth to something unique and expressive

Daily Law: Confront one of your limitations—one of the obstructions in your path—today. Break beyond it, climb over it, think your way around it. Don't run from it. It was created for you. Mastery, I: Discover Your Calling—The Life's Task

Destroy the weeds of envy by giving them nothing to feed on.

Daily Law: When in doubt, focus on the things you know you do well. Expand outward from the center. Mastery, I: Discover Your Calling—The Life's Task

What Makes You Feel More Alive?

Working on yourself like clay should be one of your greatest and most pleasurable life tasks. It makes you in essence an artist—an artist creating yourself.

Você é único, e sua singularidade tem um propósito. É preciso encarar todo retrocesso, fracasso ou dificuldade como provações ao longo do caminho, como sementes plantadas para a colheita futura.

When we are tired, it is often because we are bored. When no real challenge faces us, a mental and physical lethargy sets in. "Sometimes death only comes from a lack of energy," Napoleon once said, and lack of energy comes from a lack of challenges, comes when we have taken on less than we are capable of. Take a risk and your body and mind will respond with a rush of energy. Make risk a constant practice; never let yourself settle down.

Work every day on improving those skills that mesh with your unique spirit and purpose

Remake yourself into a character of power. Working on yourself like clay should be one of your greatest and most pleasurable life tasks. It makes you in essence an artist—an artist creating yourself.

Every minute of every day we are aging; every encounter with others alters and shapes our ideas; we are a continuous work in progress, never quite the same. As Heraclitus once said, "You cannot step into the same river twice; it is not the same river, and you are not the same person.

Daily Law: Let go of the past and feel yourself carried along by the stream of life and all the power and energy that it will bring us in its wake.

The future belongs to those who learn more skills and combine them in creative ways. And the process of learning skills, no matter how virtual, remains the same.

patience is a skill—it does not come naturally.

Although we might enter these situations with excitement about what we can learn or do with our new skills, we quickly realize how much hard work there is ahead of us. The great danger is that we give in to feelings of boredom, impatience, fear, and confusion. We stop observing and learning. The process comes to a halt.

El amante accesible. Cuando la gente madura, se protege contra experiencias dolorosas encerrándose en sí misma. El precio de esto es la rigidez, física y mental. Pero los niños están por naturaleza desprotegidos y dispuestos a experimentar, y esta receptividad es muy atractiva.

Use Resistance and Negative Spurs Every negative is a positive. The bad things that happen to me, I somehow make them good. —50 Cent

Daily Law: Embrace negative experiences. When was the last time you failed, felt embarrassed, got criticized? What were you doing? What did the experience teach you? The Laws of Human Nature, 13: Advance with a Sense of Purpose—The Law of Aimlessness

Create a Ladder of Descending Goals

Third and most important, we must begin to make the transformation into the healthy narcissist. Healthy narcissists have a stronger, even more resilient sense of self.

by embracing the full picture of themselves, their self-love is more real and complete. From this stronger inner position, they can turn their attention outward more often and more easily. This attention goes in one of two directions, and sometimes both.

The same is true of adults: it is through your battles with others that you learn what works, what doesn't, and how to protect yourself. Instead of shrinking from the idea of having enemies, then, embrace it. Conflict is therapeutic.

You want to embrace negative experiences, limitations, and even pain as the perfect means of building your skill levels and sharpening your sense of purpose.

existe una fuerza interior que hace que todos los seres vivos crezcan y se transformen?