Quotes About Growth

Bring the past only if you are going to build from it.

The worst times can be the best if you think with positive energy.

I like learning new stuff, and continuing to educate myself as best I can.

There are no second acts. But I still believe there are, from time to time.

we tend to steer our lives in the direction of the lessons we need to learn

Don't forget, Stephen Stills and I had a band in Gainesville called the Continentals when we were 15. And, of course, you had Lynyrd Skynyrd in Jacksonville.

If you are a good friend, you'll have good friends. Developing and learning together is one of the most gratifying aspects of a relationship. In the best friendships, developing, learning, and laughing never stop.

Sometimes you get the best light from a burning bridge.

The brighter you are, the more you have to learn.

I've never been very successful in a monogamous relationship, but I'm looking forward to the day when I can assume that responsibility.

I mean, nothing's really changed, but we've changed.

What man calls civilization always results in deserts.

I have had many occasions this year where I questioned and second-guessed my decision in a game, but it comes down to learning from mistakes and being accountable for what you did right or did wrong.

You don't need to justify your love, you don't need to explain your love, you just need to practice your love. Practice creates the master.

My ignorance is essential. I do not write what I know but what I need to know.

But if you look at WorldCom, which is the biggest failure to date, they grew dramatically, they were buying companies that were bigger than they were and they were doing it off inflated stock.

Just then I realized how badly I had missed the whole idea. I had failed them and myself. In trying to be strong for them, I had cheated them out of opportunities to strengthen me. Guilt overwhelmed me, because I could—at last—see their gifts to me.

Some things happen to us from which we never recover, and they disrupt the normalcy of our lives. That's how life is. Human nature has a tendency to try to reconstruct old ways and pick up where we left off. If we're wise, we won't continue to go back to the way things were (we can't anyway). We must instead forget the old standard and accept a 'new normal.

You must change your actions to change your results.

grown steadily throughout the South ever since. The Mt. Jefferson branch was the twenty-third to open, and Milton felt lucky to be part of such a flourishing company.

In fact, life is our greatest teacher. Whatever we are doing can be instructive, whether we are at the office, or talking to our spouse, or driving a car on the freeway. If we are present to our experiences, the impressions of our activities will be fresh and alive, and we will always learn something new from them. But if we are not present, every moment will be like every other, and nothing of the preciousness of life will touch us.

Self-understanding is the prelude to transformation, to moving beyond the ego and all that makes up what is called "false personality.

What can we gain by sailing to the moon if we are not able to cross the abyss that separates us from ourselves?" THOMAS MERTON

Nines must resist the urge to escape into "premature Buddhahood"... and away from the mundane world. They must remember that "the only way out is through.