Quotes About Growth

Were we daring enough to take the "hero's journey" and become agents for the future? Or were our individual identities so dependent on our existing competencies and skills-and so entwined with the established structure-that change, deep or otherwise, was simply not an option?

The pursuit of fewer errors is sensible; the insistence on none at all, counterproductive.

The guru is like a gardener, and the disciples like flowers.

There are a lot of men who are healthier at age fifty then they have ever been before, because a lot of their fear is gone.

Do you want to know the secret of pain? If you just stop feeling it, you can start to use it.

Mithorden: 'We become what we do, Zalos.

For the second one, put down that I like food. As a child, I disliked fish, eggs, and oatmeal, but when I became a man, I put away childish things. My tastes are now more catholic, if not omnivorous. My children call me the walking garbage pail. (On my own terms, of course, I refuse the epithet: All that I take is stored lovingly in an ample home--it becomes not waste, but waist.

The kingdom grows, he says, because the kingdom is already planted. It grows of itself and in its own good time. Above all, it grows we know not how.

Onions die quietly, Cabbages shed no blood; All plants forgive: By the waters that comprise them They wash man's hands And let him walk away.

You make mistakes, people die. You move forward. Perfect people accomplish nothing.

Getting older... mostly it entails accepting the unacceptable.

Pero yo le podría evitar el sufrimiento, la lucha, el dolor y la tristeza a los que va a tener que enfrentarse. ?Nuestra experiencia es lo único que no podemos ofrecer a los demás. Cada uno tiene que pasar por su propio dolor y pesar para poder encontrar la alegría y la felicidad que hay al otro lado ?le dijo Merlín con dulzura.

Una persona no puede correr y aprender a la vez. Debe permanecer en un lugar durante un tiempo.

Cómo llegasteis a ser tan sabio? ?Admitiendo que no sé nada ?contestó Merlín. ?No lo entiendo ?dijo el Caballero. ?Cuando creemos que lo sabemos todo, no nos queda lugar para aprender nada más. Pero si sabemos que no sabemos nada, tenemos espacio para aprenderlo todo ?le explicó Merlín.

Hemos fracasado ?gimió Julieta. Merlín les sonrió con gran ternura. ?No ?contestó?. Esto no es un fracaso, sólo es una experiencia.

Queréis decir que una persona no puede cambiar si se juzga a sí misma o a los demás? ?preguntó el Caballero. Merlín asintió: ?Exactamente. Si juzga a otro, uno no se permite a sí mismo ver el cambio que experimenta.

There are no mistakes, save one: the failure to learn from a mistake.

If the creative process is so powerful, it would be natural to wonder why many artists have difficulties in their lives. It is because they do not know what they know.

You got to where you are in your life right now by moving along the path of least resistance.

Even Mozart, perhaps the most gifted composer in history, developed and grew in his art. The music he wrote in his thirties was far more advanced than what he wrote in his twenties or in his teens. The more music he wrote, the more he was able to write.

Americans are like a rich father who wishes he knew how to give his son the hardships that made him rich

The trees that have it in their pent-up buds To darken nature and be summer woods -

I go to school the youth to learn the future.

Education doesn't change life much. It just lifts trouble to a higher plane of regard.