Quotes About Growth

look at what's deficient and be an instrument of increasing

Você pode ficar sentado o resto da vida, lamentando-se sobre o quanto foi mau, sentindo-se culpado até morrer, e nem um minúsculo fragmento dessa culpa irá contribuir de maneira nenhuma para corrigir esse antigo comportamento.

How can anyone be a pessimist in a world where we know so little? A heart starts beating inside a mother's womb a few weeks after conception, and it's a total mystery to everyone on our planet. In comparison to what there is to know, we are only embryos. Keep this in mind whenever you encounter those who are absolutely certain that there's only one way to do something. Resist being a pessimist.

all of life is a movement toward perfection

change our ingrained ways of thinking and see how our lives change as a result.

As your thinking changes from a position dictated by your ego to one that transcends it, you'll see an illuminated world that is truly inviting.

You can be motivated out of a desire to grow rather than a need to repair your deficiencies. If you recognize that you can always grow, improve, become more and greater, that is enough.

Your purpose is to stay in harmony with nature like the sprout hidden beneath the surface of the ground, waiting unhurriedly to emerge and fulfill its destiny.

Creation takes place on its own timetable.

You don't learn much from a victory except to stay the same.

The logic of being able to choose your self-pictures applies to all of the photographs of you that are lodged in your brain. You are as socially adept as you choose to be. If you dislike the way you behave socially, you can work at changing the behavior and not confusing it with your own self-worth.

You alone can prepare the ground of your being for the experience of living the mystery.

avoid self-limits, accept your body as a perfect creation, and allow your life to unfold in accordance with its own nature.

Al controlar al ego tiendes a disolverlo. Se siente muy amenazado por su pérdida de poder. Pero tienes que perderte a ti mismo con el fin de redescubrirte. Una vez que la seguridad de espíritu te imbuye, ves cómo la disciplina mental mejora tu vida. Llega un momento en que el ego se relaja al ver que el nuevo rector de tu existencia es tan firme como una roca.

Keep in mind that when you've reached the valley floor, the only direction you can go is upward.

eres capaz de alcanzar el equilibrio perfecto de la mente. Este camino exige un compromiso con tu propia transformación interior.

But in my heart I knew the old Bryce was toast. There was no going back. Not to Garrett or Shelly or Miranda or any of the other people who wouldn't understand. Juli was different, but after all these years that didn't bother me anymore. I liked it. I liked her.

Maybe my mother's right. Maybe there is more to Bryce Loski than I know. Maybe it's time to meet him in the proper light.

It's disturbing how fast weeds take root in my garden of worthiness. They're so hard to pull. And grow back so easily.

By the end of that first day, what I'd made was a big mess. But if chaos is a necessary step in the organization of one's universe, that I was well on my way.

I realize something. That wasn't a finish line for me...This is my new starting line.

if we walk far but are angry as we journey, we travel nowhere. If we hold grudges as we scale mountains, our view remains the same.

Thank you for helping me turn the page.

Today I've been considering how life's journey is not about the distance we move our feet, but how we are moved in our heart.