Quotes About Growth

the longest way round is the shortest way home." Our truest fulfillment does not lie in the direction of a jealously guarded self but in the direction of self-transcendence as we learn to open to others and to reality.

Las asesorías contables son como champiñones: crecen en la oscuridad y se nutren de basura», dice Tom Mornini

Most people create their first Selves to deal with a bad situation, the death of a parent, the loss of a home, or the loss of their first boyfriend or girlfriend. These Selves aren't usually very well made, but they are the forces that awaken us to the need to create ourselves out of the materials of our life.

Step by motherfucking step. Our ends know our beginnings but the reverse isn't true.

And an epiphany—the only redemption for having a bad father is being a good one.

Every second act, Reggie knows, is followed by a third.

La speranza non muore in modo rapido e pulito, come un ramo che si spezza sotto il peso di una nevicata. Appassisce lentamente come una pianta non annaffiata.

Smart people sometimes get stupid, but stupid people never get smart. Never. Ever. 'You can come down the evolutionary ladder,' Chon has observed to Ben and O; 'you can't climb up.

Abilities wither under faultfinding, blossom under encouragement.

Fail often, fail fast

Living is more important than acceptance - acceptance is not as important as understanding. - Donald Allen Kirch

Zen master Shunryu Suzuki writes, "In the beginner's mind there are many possibilities, but in the expert's there are few."8

While such numbers must always be regarded as broad estimates, one study has shown that each day sees some 78,000 new Christians worldwide and each week some 1,000 new churches are established in Asia, Africa, and Latin America (Wagner 1983:20-21). Since those figures were published it became known that in China alone the decade of the 1980s saw up to 20,000 new Christians per day.

I hope that you will be faced with difficult choices and decisions, trials that won't undo you, but that will drive you toward reflection and understanding. Trust that your fears will sometimes tell you about your desires. You will see that you can survive the terror that comes with growth and change, with vulnerability and risk.

...as one reads more and more and more you get more fathers in your hierarchy of fathers. And then, after summoning twenty or thirty fathers, perhaps you are born, or perhaps you are not born.

You must change the people you are speaking to so that you appear, to yourself, to be still alive.

There was no particular point at which I stopped being promising.

History is the record of an encounter between character and circumstances.

What is a weed? I have heard it said that there are sixty definitions. For me, a weed is a plant out of place.

I majored in Creative Writing in college. Then I got over it.

If buyer's remorse ever accomplished anything in this world," Max said, "we'd all still be living in caves.

No one who cannot rejoice in the discovery of his own mistakes deserves to be called a scholar.

I personally don't believe people really grow. They just learn stuff when they were a kid, and hold on to it, and that affects every relationship they have.

When I was young, my language wore coats and shirts and trousers, neckties, bespoke shoes. In my lifetime as a writer I have cast off layer after layer of clothing in pursuit of nudity.