Quotes About Growth

To come to the land of love, you must pass through the pains of death, for to love persons means to die to the need for persons and to be utterly alone.

Thus, any change you achieve is inevitably accompanied by inner conflict.

Cuarto: siempre que te sientas inseguro acerca de lo que puede depararte el futuro, limítate simplemente a recordar que en los últimos seis o doce meses has estado igualmente inseguro acerca de los acontecimientos que habrían de producirse; y que cuando, finalmente, éstos se produjeron, te las arreglaste para dominarlos de un modo u otro, gracias a las energías

Here is a mistake that most people make in their relationships with others. They try to build a steady nesting place in the ever-moving stream of life.

Before enlightenment I used to be depressed. After enlightenment I continue to be depressed.

Finalmente,tus miedos: si supieras que

Tercera verdad: si deseas estar plenamente vivo, debes adquirir y desarrollar el sentido de la perspectiva. La vida es infinitamente más grande que esa nimiedad a la que tu corazón se ha apegado y a la que tú has dado el poder de alterarte de ese modo. Una nimiedad, sí, porque, si vives lo suficiente, es muy fácil que algún día esa cosa o persona deje de importarte...

Lo que necesitas no es renunciar, sino comprender, tomar conciencia. Si tus apegos te han ocasionado sufrimiento y aflicción, ésa es una buena ayuda para comprender. Si

The nature of rain is the same, but it makes thorns grow in the marshes and flowers in the gardens.

The symphony of life moves on but you keep looking back, clinging to a few bars of the melody, blocking your ears to the rest of the music

Every child has a god in him. Our attempts to mold the child will turn the god into a devil. Children come to my school, little devils, hating the world, destructive, unmannerly, lying, thieving, bad-tempered. In six months they are happy, healthy children who do no evil.

Why else do any of this if not to become who we want to be?

Leave home, leave the country, leave the familiar. Only then can routine experience—buying bread, eating vegetables, even saying hello—become new all over again.

Why is it so hard to transcend the identities assigned to us when we were young?

Forgetting, he is learning, is how the world heals itself.

He was a just a boy. They all were. Even the largest of them.

See obstacles as opportunities, Reinhold. See obstacles as inspirations.

We all grew up before we were grown up.

He wants to tell her that when things vanish they become something else, in death we rise again in the blades of grass, the splitting bodies of seeds.

You bury your childhood here and there. It waits for you, all your life, to come back and dig it up.

We return to the places we're from; we trample faded corners and pencil in new lines. 'You've grown up so fast,' Robert's mother tells him at breakfast, at dinner. 'Look at you." But she's wrong, thinks Robert. You bury your childhood here and there. It waits for you, all your life, to come back and dig it up.

Sublimity," Hauptmann says, panting, "you know what that is, Pfennig?" He is tipsy, animated, almost prattling. Never has Werner seen him like this. "It's the instant when one thing is about to become something else. Day to night, caterpillar to butterfly. Fawn to doe. Experiment to result. Boy to man.

Piensa en los obstáculos como en oportunidades, Reinhold. Piensa en los obstáculos como inspiraciones».

we begin as a microscopic electrical swarm. The lungs the brain the heart. Forty weeks later, six trillion cells get crushed in the vise of our mother's birth canal and we howl. Then the world starts in on us.