Quotes About Growth

I have crossed an ocean I have lost my tongue from the root of the old one a new one has sprung

Don't focus on what happened, focus on what you will do next.

I regret to report I let my barely legal self down.

Then I got out of the bubble.

One pill makes you largerAnd one pill makes you smallAnd the ones that mother gives youDon't do anything at all.Go ask AliceWhen she's ten feet tall.

Children were only borrowed, you enjoyed them and helped to build their confidence preparing them for the day they would leave you. That was right and proper.

There was a Gracia I barely knew existed: fearful Gracia, selfish Gracia, bitter Gracia, angry-at-God Gracia. That wasn't the only me, but it was a bigger part of me than I wanted to accept.

We learned that the fruit of the Spirit could not be drummed up by ourselves. We couldn't force joyfulness or loving action or a peaceful mind. The Holy Spirit had to grow those things within us.

Se aprendesse qualquer coisa, necessitaria aprender mais, e nunca ficaria satisfeito.

Retirou-se. A humilhação atenuou-se pouco a pouco e morreu. Precisava entrar em casa, jantar, dormir. E precisava crescer, ficar tão grande como Fabiano, matar cabras a mão de pilão, trazer uma faca de ponta à cintura. Ia crescer, espichar-se numa cama de varas, fumar cigarros de palha, calçar sapatos de couro cru.

We forget very easily what gives us pain.

What I mean is this: you meet someone, you think about them. You're already changing because of the way you think about them. You meet them again, you think about them some more, you're changing again. And on it goes. You are changing right now. Before my eyes.

Twenty years is, after all, a long time. We are not the same people we were. Old friends, lovers, even family members: they are strangers who happen to wear a familiar face. We have no right to claim to know anyone after such a distance.

There are times in our lives, Rob, when all of us have to face up to what we fear the most

There is no shame in ignorance, only in denying it. By knowing what we do not know, we can take steps to remedy our lack of knowledge

there is no man, however wise, who has not at some time in his youth said or done things that are so unpleasant to him in later life that he would gladly expunge them from his memory if he could. In years to come, I will not be haunted by the guilt of all the good I didn't do.

A world of death is a world of stagnation, without the change that makes it worthwhile. What you call uncertainty, I call life itself.

Never let schooling interfere with education.

And this secret life itself spoke to me: "Behold," it said, "I am that which must always overcome itself." Friedrich Nietzsche, Thus Spoke Zarathustra[1] Only someone who has overcome himself is truly able to overcome. Jean Gebser, The Ever-Present Origin[2]

People who escape familiar groups and make contact with unfamiliar ones becomes smarter and more creative. They have what Ronald Burt calls a "vision advantage." They are no longer captives of their cultures.

This is what I find most magnetic about successful givers: they get to the top without cutting others down, finding ways of expanding the pie that benefit themselves and the people around them. Whereas success is zero-sum in a group of takers, in groups of givers, it may be true that the whole is greater than the sum of the parts.

what if we spent as much time and money on Bible study as we do our hobbies?

If in Los Angeles in 1949 he had preached "fast and loud," by the time he got to New York in 1957 he had learned to dial down the speed and let the microphone do the heavy lifting.

I played with the same band for years and years and there's a beauty to having one solid core that you keep exploring. On the other hand, it's nice to throw yourself in different situations where you find out things about your own resources.