Quotes About Growth

My definition of a true religion is one that does good in the world. It tries to find ways to help people be themselves. It does not try to shape people to be what we think they should be, then break spiritual or man-made laws to accomplish that. The sign of a good religion is that it helps the people grow to become more godlike, to be capable of more love and mercy---for themselves as well as for others.

The reason for spiritual enlightenment is not to escape life, but to learn how to live it richly, to enjoy it. The Language of Soul

I think of life as a good book. The further you get into it, the more it begins to make sense. –Harold Kushner

I think of life as a good book. The further you get into it, the more it begins to make sense.

The wind of change is blowing through this continent and whether we like it or not, the growth of national consciousness is a political fact.

Marxism is like a classical building that followed the Renaissance; beautiful in its way, but incapable of growth.

The wind of change is blowing through the continent. Whether we like it or not, this growth of national consciousness is a political fact.

Deberíamos usar el pasado como trampolín y no como sofá.

The earth's about five million years old, at least. Who can afford to live in the past?

I mean, don't forget the earth's about five thousand million years old, at least. Who can afford to live in the past?

Sex got me into trouble from the age of fifteen: I'm hoping that by the time I'm seventy I'll straighten it out.

Kids are a pain in the ass.

Friends are more than just people who will listen to what you have to say and agree with you. Sometimes they have to tell you things you don't want to hear for your own sake. Please listen to what we have to say.

America is the civilization of people engaged in transforming themselves. In the past, the stars of the performance were the pioneer and the immigrant. Today, it is youth and the Black.

Leadership cannot really be taught. It can only be learned.

It's better to take over and build upon an existing business than to start a new one.

We may not ever understand why we suffer or be able to control the forces that cause our suffering, but we can have a lot to say about what suffering does to us, and what sort of people we become because of it. Pain makes some people bitter and envious. It makes others sensitive and compassionate. It is the result, not the cause, of pain that makes some experiences of pain meaningful and others empty and destructive.

Typically, if a book has one passage, one idea with the power to change a person's life, that alone justifies reading it, rereading it, and finding room for it on one's shelves

Para mim, a vida é como um bom livro. Quanto mais avançamos nele, mais sentido começa a fazer.

A sense of our inadequacies and failings, a recognition that we could be better people than we usually are, is one of the forces for moral growth and improvement in our society. An appropriate sense of guilt makes people try to be better. But an excessive sense of guilt, a tendency to blame ourselves for things which are clearly not our fault, robs us of our self-esteem and perhaps of our capacity to grow and to act.

We can do our best to change people, to summon them to be whom they are capable of being, but ultimately they only people we will always have the power to change will be ourselves.

To be a husband or wife, to be a parent, is inevitably to be aware of so many disappointing, exasperating things about your mate or child, but at the same time to see those people in depth, to see them with both eyes, and to be reminded of why you still love them.

True success consists not in becoming the person you dreamed of being when you were young, but in becoming the person you were meant to be, the person you are capable of being when you are at your best.

The purpose in life is not to win. The purpose in life is to grow and to share. "When you come to look back on all that you have done in life, you will get more satisfaction from the pleasure you have brought into other people's lives than you will from the times that you outdid and defeated them.