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Quotes About Growth

Your life is not going to be easy, and it should not be easy. It ought to be hard. It ought to be radical; it ought to be restless; it ought to lead you to places you'd rather not go.
~ Henri Nouwen
We are in danger of making our cities places where business goes on but where life, in its real sense, is lost.
~ Hubert H. Humphrey
In life, when stuff happens the instinct is to close off your heart. By leaving your heart open, it leaves room for someone else to come in.
~ Jane Seymour
Childrens books change lives. Stories pour into the hearts of children and help make them what they become.
~ Jane Yolen
To be successful in life what you need is education.
~ Jawaharlal Nehru
Life expects us to make a reasonable amount of progress in a reasonable amount of time. That's why they make those second grade chairs so small.
~ Jim Rohn
Go out on a limb. That's where the fruit is.
~ Jimmy Carter
Let no one be ashamed to say yes today if yesterday he said no. Or to say no today if yesterday he said yes. For that is life. Never to have changed-what a pitiable thing of which to boast!
~ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
If you truly want to grow as a person and learn, you should realize that the universe has enrolled you in the graduate program of life, called loss.
~ Elisabeth Kubler-Ross
Every difficulty in life presents us with an opportunity to turn inward and to invoke our own submerged inner resources. The trials we endure can and should introduce us to our strengths.
~ Epictetus
If you don't understand your limitations you won't achieve much in your life.
~ Kevin Costner
Life is on an incline; you either go up, or you come down.
~ Kiran Bedi
Life's a journey. It's a journey about discovering limits.
~ Larry Ellison
Do not feel lonely, the entire universe is inside you. Stop acting so small. You are the universe in ecstatic motion. Set your life on fire. Seek those who fan your flames.
~ Rumi
I came to understand the value of education, not just to enable me to make a good living, but to enable me to make a worthwhile life.
~ Ruth Simmons
Life is an opportunity afforded to each not to eat and drink, but to achieve something nobler and higher to merge in the Reality.
~ Sathya Sai Baba
Mistakes are the price of an interesting life.
~ Sophia Loren
Every conversation, every cuddle, aver kiss and caress, even every disagreement, adds another brushstroke to the picture of home you paint with the days and hours of your life.
~ Thomas Kinkade
I don't want to just be fully rapping my whole life.
~ Meek Mill
You know, the more you can meet people from different walks of life, the better it is for you. I think the more you can create situations and experiences that give you new perspective, the better.
~ Michelle Pfeiffer
Throughout your life advance daily, becoming more skilful than yesterday, more skilful than today. This is never-ending.
~ Nabeshima Naoshige
Eliminate something superfluous from your life. Break a habit. Do something that makes you feel insecure.
~ Piero Ferrucci
Without remaining open to change , we can not remain open to life
~ Ram Dass
I'm really looking forward to seeing what life brings to me.
~ Rihanna