Quotes About Growth

To acknowledge, to accept, and to forgive one's parents - both what they gave and what they did not give, both one's dependence upon them and one's independence of them - is the ultimate hallmark of maturity: a perception as valid for institutions as for individuals.

a journey becomes a pilgrimage as we discover, day by day, that the distance traveled is less important than the experience gained.

For women and men, for alcoholics and non-alcoholics, spirituality is one of those realities that we have only so long as we seek it; as soon as we stop seeking, we stop finding; as soon as we think we've got it, we've most certainly lost it.

Let the world change you and you can change the world

I am suggesting is that the past, as we remember it, has little to do with causal or determining factos that have in some way made, or influenced, us as we are today. Rather, the remembered past provides us with the means to maintain, or validate, who we are today and to give focus and direction to who we might wish to become at some future point in time.

Im Schlaf Er traf einen Baum. Er baute darunter sein Haus. Er schnitt aus dem Baum einen Stock heraus. Der Stock wurde seine Lanze. Die Lanze wurde sein Gewehr. Das Gewehr wurde seine Kanone. Die Kanone wurde seine Bombe. Die Bombe traf sein Haus und riß den Baum an dem Wurzeln aus. Er stand dabei und staunte, aber auf wachte er nicht.

Spotted Fawn left a legacy as well. She taught me, and many others, that it's not enough to plan and execute a project intellectually. If a project is to grow and prosper, it needs to be rooted in the spirit, in the body, in the community, as well as in the mind. And in her final months of life, Spotted Fawn bore her adversity with dignity and good humor. She was neither a whiner nor a complainer.

Success will lie to you and tell you that your future is just an extension of your past, when at its best, success is simply preparation for new challenges.

God is not a drug, and He certainly does not create experiences and emotions that make us feel better but not become better.

Discipleship...a process of unleashing the creative potential in each person.

If failure is our inevitable future, then let's fail boldly and fail forward.

We cannot love deeply or risk greatly and never know failure or disappointment.

If you are comfortable with where you are, you will never know how far you can go. If you refuse to change, then you refuse to grow.

If you want to change the world, start by making small changes to your world.

No te lleves tu pasado a tu futuro. No te lo lleves contigo. Tu pasado será tu futuro hasta que hayas tenido la valentía de crear un nuevo futuro.

no debemos permitir que el temor nos robe nuestro futuro, y cada día que caminamos por esta tierra debemos estar seguros de no guardar nada para la próxima vida. Nunca debes permitir que el temor te mantenga atrapado. El momento en que decides jugar a lo seguro, has perdido el partido. En lugar de huir de tus temores, apóyate en ellos, porque al otro lado de ellos está el futuro que anhelas. Esos momentos forman carácter y forjan el futuro.

Sometimes God allows us to go through tremendous disruption so that we might choose the path to freedom.

A veces, prender fuego a tu pasado es menos alejarte de él, que elevarte por encima de él.

SOMEHOW WE ALL KNOW THAT TO PLAY IT SAFE IS TO LOSE THE GAME.

So much of teaching is sharing. Learning results in sharing, sharing results in change, change is learning.

they looked so much the same; perhaps their faces were a little less doughy, more defined. Are they stunted? Am I seeing them the way I will always see them? Am I the keeper of the ghosts of their childhood selves?

The difference between a beginning teacher and an experienced one is that the beginning teacher asks, How am I doing? and the experienced teacher asks, How are the children doing?

Todo lo enseña, con la vejez, el tiempo.

Human relations never seem to stand completely still. This apple, for instance. It might ripen into something better than it now was, or, unromantically, it might rot away in his pocket.