Quotes About Growth

You keep learning how to let go and to live the life that you actually have, as opposed to the life you thought you were going to have.

Many people come to reinvention when life changes around them, but people come in all different stripes. I'm oriented to change.

I don't really know how to live my life, just like lots of other people don't. I guess you just learn along the way.

Life is a grindstone. Whether it grinds us down or polishes us up depends on us.

It is strange, but true, that the most important turning-points of life often come at the most unexpected times and in the most unexpected ways.

Only to the extent that we expose ourselves over and over to annihilation can that which is indestructible in us be found.

I have never spent a day in my adult life where I didn't learn something, and if there is a born-again quality to me, that's it.

Life is about becoming more of who you really are.

There is no such thing as failure. Failure is just life trying to move us in another direction.

Life has taught me to forgive much, but to seek forgiveness still more.

I didn't like where I once was, so I promised myself I wouldn't be back there.

You cant spend your life apologizing.

For most of my life I had operated under a simple schematic of winning and losing, but cancer was teaching me a tolerance for ambiguities.

Sometimes bad things are going to happen in your life, and those things can make you stronger if you just learn how to get over them.

Life's barely long enough to get good at one thing. So be careful what you get good at.

I believe the lasting revolution comes from deep changes in ourselves which influence our collective life.

One's life, from being an exterior thing, grows inwards. Its intensity stays the same; and, d'you know, it's most mysterious, the corners in which the joy of living can sometimes hide away.

If I didn't have so much of this life all wrong I would have gotten it right by now.

Your life is a reflection of your thoughts. If you change your thinking, you change your life.

If your life doesn't end in failure, you haven't reached high enough. So it was failure I had to achieve.

Keep the weeds of negative influence from your life. 'Farm' the seeds of constructive influence.

Sharpen your interest in two major subjects: life and people. You will only gather information from a source if you are interested in it.

One of the biggest defects in life is the inability to ask for help.

Life hands us opportunities at every turn to get over ourselves, to get outside ourselves, to wake up from our own bad dreams and realize that really lovely things are happening all the time.