Quotes About Growth

Are you willing to be sponged out, erased, cancelled, made nothing? Are you willing to be made nothing? dipped into oblivion? If not, you will never really change.

True nobility isn't about being better than someone else. It's about being better than you used to be.

Affirm: I place no limits and no restrictions on all that I intend to accomplish and become from here on in.

Have you lived 75 years, or have you lived one year 75 times?

Just as we're all students throughout life, we're all teachers.

The falls of our life provide us with the energy to propel ourselves to a higher level.

The More I Read,The More I Get Enlightened About Life..

You don't have to be attached to what you've been. What you've been is just the choices that you made once upon a time, and you always have the power to change your mind.

If your life is better, it is because you have done something constructive to make it better.

Quit accumulating points for being right!

Instead of hating yourself, develop positive feelings. Learn from the error, and resolve not to repeat it but don't associate it with your self-worth.

The spiritual journey does not consist in arriving at a new destination where a person gains what he did not have, or becomes what he is not. It consists in the dissipation of one's own ignorance concerning one's self and life, and the gradual growth of that understanding which begins the spiritual awakening. The finding of God is a coming to one's self.

I've often cited the Buddhist proverb "When the student is ready, the teacher will appear." Although it is not always evident at the time, all of our experiences in this life, even those that are painful, have a true and necessary purpose in our soul's journey.

create space for others to be inspired and to achieve their own greatness.

You can have all visits back home be fond experiences, if you get a firm handle on your own struggle for independence from your parents. And if you model self-pride and self-worth for your children, they will in turn leave the nest with an absence of stress and turmoil for all concerned.

Let go of your ego's need to be right.

Take on difficulties while they are still easy; do great things while they are still small.

Beautiful thoughts build a beautiful soul.

You were born with wings. You are not meant for crawling, so don't. You have wings. Learn to use them and fly. — Rumi

So raise your children to be self-sufficient, to make their own decisions as soon as they're able, and to feel pride in the decisions they do make.

The only limits you have are the limits you believe.

a good man is but a bad man's teacher, and a bad man is but a good man's job.

Am I going to be in the same office doing the same thing? Am I going to live 90 years? Or am I going to live one year, 90 times, over and over again?

All blame is a waste of time. No matter how much fault you find with another, and regardless of how much you blame him, it will not change you.