Quotes About Growth

Live as if you were living already for the second time and as if you had acted the first time as wrongly as you are about to act now!...imagine first that the present is past and, second, that the past may yet be changed and amended.

Când nu mai suntem capabili s? schimb?m o situaÅ£ie, suntem provocaÅ£i s? ne schimb?m noi înÅŸine.

El hombre tiene capacidad, fuerza, vocación para superarse a sí mismo, olvidarse de sí, perderse de vista, cuando se entrega a una tarea o a un semejante. Esto es lo que yo entiendo por autotrascendencia.

Spending the last several years alone had allowed her to grow in strength. Independence and self-reliance were great things. The best part about them was that the only person who could let you down was yourself.

There are no disasters. Just opportunities we haven't found yet.

Every year his world felt like it got a little smaller. Maybe that was just the way things went as people aged.

Everyone makes mistakes. What matters is that we try to make up for them.

The main thing in life is survival. And survival is not just staying alive. It is also a constant effort to grow and to learn and to work.

Evil is nourished and grows by concealment.

As a twig is bent the tree inclines.

Maia genitum

Through chances various, through all vicissitudes, we make our way.

Think of prayer as a fundamental exercise we use to build core spiritual strength. Like exercise for our bodies, it has to be consistent—every single day—to build strength.

We hebben veel geleerd van Marianne', zei ze. ''t Meeste nog, denk ik, hoeveel we eigenlijk van elkaar houden'.

With some exceptions, the enemies of the future aim their attacks not at creativity itself but at the dynamic processes through which it is carried.

As we shape our stories, we shape ourselves.

I am made and remade continually. Different people draw different words from me.

I will not be famous, great. I will go on adventuring, changing, opening my mind and my eyes, refusing to be stamped and stereotyped. The thing is to free one's self: to let it find its dimensions, not be impeded.

I don't believe in aging. I believe in forever altering one's aspect to the sun.

I enjoy the spring more than the autumn now. One does, I think, as one gets older.

Moments like this are buds on the tree of life. Flowers of darkness they are.

Still, life had a way of adding day to day

Still, one got over things. Still, life had a way of adding day to day.

That was the strange thing, that one did not know where one was going, or what one wanted, and followed blindly, suffering so much in secret, always unprepared and amazed and knowing nothing; but one thing led to another and by degrees something had formed itself out of nothing, and so one reached at last this calm, this quiet, this certainty, and it was this process that people called living.