Quotes About Growth

The real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking new landscapes but in having new eyes.

I help them learn how to relinquish control intentionally, as a means of personal growth and self-discovery

Sometimes, when we seek the gaze of another, it isn't our partner we are turning away from, but the person we have become. We are not looking for another lover so much as another version of ourselves. Mexican essayist Octavio Paz describes eroticism as a thirst for otherness. So often, the most intoxicating other that people discover in the affair is not a new partner; it's a new self.

Does one grow wise in increments? By fractioning a life and then summing it? By stacking sand? An infant, in his first sleepiness, must let go of the world; a man must learn to die. What comes between are the grains of sand. Ambition. Loss. Envy. Desire. Hatred. Love. Tenderness. Joy. Shame. Loneliness. Ecstasy. Ache. Surrender. Live long enough and you will solve them all.

Don't fear suffering. The strongest steel is forged in the hottest fire. The facts are always friendly. Without a little agony, none of us would bother to learn a thing. The earth has to be tilled before the seeds can be planted.

Grace is the ability to accept change. Be open and supple; the brittle break.

One must also accept that one has 'uncreative' moments. The more honestly one can accept that, the quicker these moments will pass.

All experience is an enrichment rather than an impoverishment.

Memory returned like spring, Laurel thought. Memory had the character of spring. In some cases, it was the old wood that did the blooming

For he was not strong enough to receive the impact of unfamiliar things without a little talk to break their fall.

Learning stamps you with it's moments. Childhood's learning is made up of moments. It isn't steady. It's a pulse.

People don't change, their situations change. My circumstances can improve or grow worse but it's always myself in the midst of them, unchanged in my private essence.

You had to suffer shipwreck through your own efforts before you were ready to seize the lifebelt he threw you.

Bad ages to live through are good ages to learn from.

LAVINIA: I love everything that grows simply-- up toward the sun-- everything that's straight and strong! I hate what's warped and twists and eats into itself and dies for a lifetime in shadow...

Provare dolore è naturale. Superarlo è una questione di scelta.

Hij keek Madeleine aan. Misschien was ze toch niet zo bijzonder. Ze was zijn ideaal, maar een vroege versie daarvan, en hij zou er mettertijd wel overheen komen. Hij lachte haar een beetje sullig toe. Hij had nu een beter gevoel over zichzelf, alsof hij misschien nog wel eens iets zou kunnen bereiken.

By then I had moved often enough not to have the usual illusions about a clean slate or a fresh start or a new life. I knew that I could not escape myself. And the idea of beginning again, with no furniture and no friends, was exhausting. So my happiness then is hard to explain. I am tempted now to believe that entering the life one is meant to inhabit is a thrilling sensation and that is all.

You won't benefit from diverse perspectives if you aren't open to utilizing differences.

Experience, travel - these are an education in themselves.

Let me hold So I can feel Let me see So I can learn Let me be So I can lead

No one starts out with the answers. You figure them out as you go and you learn from the people who figured them out before you.

To be a human being is to be a continual work of art.

It was all the same every year. And that's how I liked it. I never wanted it to be different, not even a little bit. It's funny. When you're young, you always want things to change. You want to grow up. You want to go to new places, do new things. But in the end, it's the things like Christmas, the things that are always the same, that you love the most.