Quotes About Growth

The human brain loves exercise.

I looked at Lucas with the pang that a parent feels when he knows his child will be hurt and that it's no one's fault and that to try to preempt the rites of passage is an act of contempt for the child's courage.

Disasters have a way of making us stronger in the broken places.

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Earth may be alive: not as the ancients saw her--a sentient Goddess with a purpose and foresight--but alive like a tree. A tree that quietly exists, never moving except to sway in the wind, yet endlessly conversing with the sunlight and the soil. Using sunlight and water and nutrient minerals to grow and change. But all done so imperceptibly, that to me the old oak tree on the green is the same as it was when I was a child.

Darwinists are right to say that selection favours the organisms that leave alive the most progeny, but vigorous growth takes place within a constrained space where feedback from the environment allows the emergence of natural self-regulation.

The difficulties or pains or resentments that get built up when people live or work together, the assumptions you make about other people and how things should be done are like old food in the pot. Each morning, when you meet each other, let it be like new fresh food! So don't put new arisings into your dirty pot of yesterday's food.

If one makes himself master of one vital book, he shall never become a commonplace man.

The most useless are those who never change through the years.

Make your feet your friend.

If you cannot teach me to fly, teach me to sing.

We are all of us failures, at least, the best of us are.

You need not be sorry for her. She was one of the kind that likes to grow up. In the end she grew up of her own free will a day quicker than the other girls.

The instrument of leadership is the self, and mastery of the art of leadership comes from mastery of the self.

The domain of leaders is the future. The work of leaders is change. The most significant contribution leaders make is not to today's bottom line; it is to the long-term development of people and institutions so they can adapt, change, prosper, and grow.

Learning agility," as they define it, "is the ability to reflect on experience and then engage in new behaviors based on those reflections.

Suffering always reveal idols of the heart.

The body of Christ is about doing life together, and by doing life together sin is revealed.

So often, it's others around us who can see where God wants to grow us even before we see it ourselves.

Jesus said, "I am the vine; you are the branches."3 All you gotta do is let the life that flows through the vine, flow into the branch—you. You don't have to do anything. You've just got to get out of the way and stop doing all the things that keep God from doing what He wants to do in your life. What Paul means by "walk by the Spirit" is essentially "live in dependence on God's Spirit.

Small groups are the place to push past Bible knowledge and on to life application so that we can see people's lives transform more and more into the image of Christ.

You don't get to a better place with God until you recognize that where you are is not as good.

God's love is not a pampering love. God's love is a perfecting love. God does not get up every day trying to figure how He can plant a bigger smile on your face. God is in the process of growing us and changing us. His love is a transforming love.

In counseling, we don't simply help people to change one thought; we help people to understand the pattern of their thinking – their mindsets.