Quotes About Growth

Wanting to change, to improve, a person's situation means offering him, for difficulties in which he is practiced and experienced, other difficulties that will find him perhaps even more bewildered.

A person isn't who they are during the last conversation you had with them - they're who they've been throughout your whole relationship.

Live the questions now. Perhaps you will then gradually, without noticing it, live along some distant day into the answer.

For one human being to love another; that is perhaps the most difficult of all our tasks, the ultimate, the last test and proof, the work for which all other work is but preparation.

Once the realization is accepted that even between the closest human beings infinite distances continue to exist, a wonderful living side by side can grow up, if they succeed in loving the distance between them which makes it possible for each to see each other whole against the sky.

The purpose of life is to be defeated by greater and greater things.

The only journey is the one within.

It is spring again. The earth is like a child that knows poems by heart.

For one human being to love another human being: that is perhaps the most difficult task that has been given to us, the ultimate, the final problem and proof, the work for which all other work is merely preparation.

Life is suffering. Life is not resistance to suffering. The point of life is to suffer. This is why we're here: We're here to suffer. I believe in a higher power that compassionately allows suffering for us as a race, to grow and mature.

Once we learn to tap into our inner resources, we can experience a profound transformation that can enrich all areas of our life – personal relations; physical, mental, and emotional health; professional work; spiritual growth and the attainment of our life's goals.

Rajiv Chandrasekaran

The obstacles of your past can become the gateways that lead to new beginnings.

Unlocking individual change starts and ends with the mental maps people carry in their heads-how they see the organization and their jobs.

Play the game, but don't believe in it – that much you owe yourself … Play the game, but raise the ante, my boy. Learn how it operates, learn how you operate.

Gardeners are good at nurturing, and they have a great quality of patience, they're tender. They have to be persistent.

Springtime and I wish I knew you

Frustration is the beginning of the end of pretending.

What you do today can improve all your tomorrows.

The Father tells Catherine that the more the soul grows in love for God, the more the soul will also grow in love for its neighbor. Some of the specific ways of loving our neighbor that Catherine lists are intercessory prayer, good example, counsel, advice, and spiritual and material help.

Teresa witnesses to the fact that even if we are not fully attentive in our prayer, little by little, even imperfect prayer will change us. Simply "showing up" for prayer time evidences our desire to be with the Lord. Even though sometimes it seems that we are more there physically than spiritually, our desire allows Him to draw us closer.7

We can grow crops less expensively because molecular manufacturing technology is inherently low cost.

I start with the premise that the function of leadership is to produce more leaders, not more followers.

Your best teacher is your last mistake.