Quotes About Growth

There is no shortcut to life. To the end of our days, life is a lesson imperfectly learned.

My life is full of mistakes. They're like pebbles that make a good road.

The Past: Our cradle, not our prison; there is danger as well as appeal in its glamour. The past is for inspiration, not imitation, for continuation, not repetition.

It's a strange lesson to learn in life that your differences, the things that make you feel uncomfortable about yourself are what will help you to grow into who you are. Those are your gifts.

The season for enjoying the fullness of life - partaking of the harvest, sharing the harvest with others, and reinvesting and saving portions of the harvest for yet another season of growth.

In life sometimes, in the universe, you have to close some doors to have others open.

There is a time in a boy's life when the sweetness is pounded out of him; and tenderness, and the ability to show what he feels, is gone.

In the first 30 years of your life, you make your habits. For the last 30 years of your life, your habits make you.

The point is to change one's life. The point is not to give some vent to the emotions that have been destroying one; the point is so to act that one can master them now.

Create a life you can't wait to live.

I did not know then that this is what life is - just when you master the geometry of one world, it slips away, and suddenly again, you're swarmed by strange shapes and impossible angles.

Rise to the occassion which is life!

The rewards go to the risk-takers, those who are willing to put their egos on the line and reach out to other people and to a richer, fuller life for themselves.

Gratitude helps you to grow and expand; gratitude brings joy and laughter into your life and into the lives of all those around you.

I live in a landscape, which every single day of my life is enriching.

College inspired me to think differently. It's like no other time in your life.

Maybe love is like rain. Sometimes gentle, sometimes torrential, flooding, eroding, joyful, steady, filling the earth, collecting in underground springs. When it rains, when we love, life grows.

The thing about me and books is that whichever one I'm reading always reminds me of whatever's happening in my life during that time.

Every dad, if he takes time out of his busy life to reflect upon his fatherhood, can learn ways to become an even better dad.

Be happy, but never satisfied.

The journey that I have undertaken, meeting people from all walks of life and learning from them, has been my biggest achievement.

Everything you gain in life will rot and fall apart, and all that will be left of you is what was in your heart.

Those who are patient in the trivial things in life and control themselves will one day have the same mastery in great and important things.

I think self-exploration is one of the journeys in life that we are blessed to be able to have.