Quotes About Growth

investing in yourself is the best investment you will ever make. it will not only improve your life, it will improve the lives of all those around you.

I once read that people who study others are wise but those who study themselves are enlightened".

it is only when you have mastered the art of loving yourself that you can truly love others. it's only when you have opened your own heart that you can touch the hearts of others. when you feel centered and alive, you are in much better position to be a better person.

Never regret your past. Rather, embrace it as the teacher that it is.

Don't live the same year 75 times and call it a life.

Life hands us lessons, and my lesson was to face this awful situation and grow from it, Blossom. I thought love had been taken away from me, but it hadn't been. I was still the same person who had loved Mr. Feingold and my old aunts and my cousins and my friends. I still ahd love inside of me, and I still had it to give.

At my very lowest, just when I believed unhappiness would eat me alive, I surrendered. I didn't suddenly become happy all at once; it took time. But I grew through the pain, grew to a place where I finally found understanding, and through understanding I found peace.

She didn't want to love save her, but to add to what was already good.

I've learned that everything happens for a reason," the yogi Krishnan told him. "Every event has a why and all adversity teaches us a lesson... Never regret your past. Accept it as the teacher that it is.

Change is hardest at the beginning, messiest in the middle and best at the end.

Never be a prisoner of your past. Become the architect of you future. You will never be the same.

I got a guitar when I was about 14, for a Christmas present, and went from there.

A teacher comes, they say, when you are ready. And if you ignore its presence, it will speak to you more loudly. But you have to be quiet to hear.

That is the fundamental nature of gifts: they move, and their value increases with their passage.

Transformation is not accomplished by tentative wading at the edge.

Most spores can't germinate in the leafy carpet of their own parents

A good mother grows into a richly eutrophic old woman, knowing that her work doesn't end until she creates a home where all of life's beings can flourish. There are grandchildren to nurture, and frog children, nestlings, goslings, seedlings, and spores, and I still want to be a good mother.

To plant trees is an act of faith.

But isn't play the way we get limbered up for the work of the world?

All those nutrients field the growth of more new plants, in an accelerating cycle. This is the way for many ponds–the bottom gradually fills in until the pond becomes a marsh and maybe someday a meadow and then a forest. Ponds grow old, and though I will too, I like the ecological idea of aging as progressive enrichment, rather than progressive loss.

Their success is measured not by consumption and growth, but by graceful longevity and simplicity, by persistence while the world changed around them. It is changing now.

She does it for the food and the satisfaction of hard work yielding something so prolific, she says. And it makes her feel at home in a place, to have her hands in the earth.

But most mosses are immune to death by drying. For them, desiccation is simply a temporary interruption in life.

Mothering is like that, a net of living threads to lovingly encircle what it cannot possibly hold, what will eventually move through it. But right then my job was