Quotes About Growth

Sometimes you must cross a bridge and other times you need to burn it. But, always keep building one and never lose your faith in life.

Do not let your shadow walk you. You are not a slave of the past.

We are like the little branch that quivers during a storm, doubting our strength and forgetting we are the tree — deeply rooted to withstand all of life's upheavals.

I smile when I look back at the troubles that have strengthened me. What seems to be insurmountable struggles then are now beautiful ornaments illuminating my soul.

Every day you either see a scar or courage. Where you dwell will define your struggle.

Allow yourself a moment of grief when life's misfortunes visit you. However, do not spend your days building a monument in honor of them.

Stay on top of your past so you can have a better view of your future.

A flower falls, even though we love it and a weed grows, even though we do not love it.

Don't forget, for every drop of rain a flower grows!

Storms make trees take deeper roots.

The way I see it, you've gotta put up with the rain to get a rainbow.

It would be better to have a new enemy, wouldn't it, instead of an old one? The demons of the past were the hardest to slay.

I look back on all that now, and I realize this helped to build my character. It helped me build my own strength. So even the bad times were good. There were good times as well as bad times. But that's how memories are made, and that's why I'm sitting here today.

But you know humans consider something negative as being bad. C: They should reword it to evolutionary catalyst. We have been given on purpose these catalysts for evolution. These things that appear negative... these things are on purpose.

I realize that we have to be both male and female many, many times. We have to be balanced, thus we cannot keep coming back to learn our lessons as the same sex. We have to know what it is like to experience both viewpoints.

To stop learning is to die

She must move. Which is why we have made it deliberately uncomfortable, painful and traumatic for her.

No matter how happy a person may be in a certain lifetime, eventually the lessons are learned and nothing more can be gained by staying there. It is then time for the spirit to move on to more profound and complex lessons. The spirit must advance.

with the decision to remain in this world until this lesson was learned. After all, if you exit too soon, for whatever reason, you must return to complete the lesson. You never get out of it that easily.

A:He told me that I would be soon. Everybody is, many times. He told me to try to learn anything I can. He said to expect it to be different because it will be different each time. And this way, we learn everything about life. We have to be everything. We have to know everything.

They're calling the children the ones learning... the humans... the learning ones.

Pain is a teaching tool. Sometimes it is used to humble certain people. Sometimes a haughty spirit can be brought down and taught to be more gracious through suffering. It may teach them that they must eventually learn to rise above the pain, and then they can deal with it. Sometimes just understanding pain and why we have it, lessens the pain.

When the smith plunges the iron into the fire, he is not just trying to make it hot and glowing; he wants to make it malleable. So too, the only reason why mental prayer is to give light to my mind and warmth to my heart is to make my soul pliant so that it can be hammered into a new shape, so that the faults and form of the old man may be hammered out, and the form and virtues of Jesus Christ imparted to it.

Action, to prove fertile, stands in need of contemplation;