Quotes About Growth

As I look back upon my life, I see that every part of it was a preparation for the next. The most trivial of incidents fits into the larger pattern like a mosaic in a preconceived design.

The development of the child during the first three years after birth is unequaled in intensity and importance by any period that precedes or follows in the whole life of the child.

Synchronicity holds the promise that if we will change within, the patterns in our outer life will change also.

You can't write the same book twice. Though I've been in historical musical situations, I can't go back and do that again. And though I run into artistic crises, they keep my life interesting.

Changing your life means changing your past.

You cannot move on to a new phase in life if you bring your old baggage with you, let the bad go, and move onto the new.

Sooner or later we will come to the edge of all that we can control and find life, waiting there for us.

Love yourself and realize that whatever you attempt to achieve in Life is a direct reflection of you.

The ability to lead a happy life is made, not found

In order for one to learn the important lessons of life, one must first overcome a fear each day.

My role in life is that of the grain of sand to the oyster-it irritates the oyster and out comes a pearl.

Life is occupied in both perpetuating itself and in surpassing itself; if all it does is maintain itself, then living is only not dying.

The quality of your practice is ultimately measured by its effect on the quality of your life. In other words, mastery in yoga is mastery of life.

Youth has the resilience to absorb disaster and weave it into the pattern of its life, no mater how anguishing the thorn that penetrates its flesh.

Taking charge of your own learning is a part of taking charge of your life, which is the sine qua non in becoming an integrated person.

All my life I've had the privilege to make my living with my imagination, and the most important thing has been to see my creative life grow. I was educated to do that and have lived accordingly.

Sometimes the right thing feels all wrong until it is over and done with.

The life you have led doesn't need to be the only life you have.

When life is good and we have no problems, we can almost let ourselves believe we have no need for God. But in my experience, sometimes the richest blessings come through pain and hard things.

We won't figure out what's sacred in life if we settle for what's safe.

Possessing talent is nothing more than the continuous pursuit of a life-long interest.

One reads books in order to gain the privilege of living more than one life. People who don't read are trapped in a mine shaft, even if they think the sun is shining.

According to me, your life is going to be a gradual process of becoming kinder and more loving. Hurry up. Speed it along. Start right now.

The greatest waste in all the world is living below our potential.