Quotes About Growth

Change is an anxiety-arousing business, both for the one doing the changing and for those affected by the change. Often we fear that another person's move toward new ideas and experiences will create a gulf so wide that we will not be able to reach them.

working on key emotional issues at their source, lays the groundwork for more solid intimate relationships in the present or future.

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Intimacy can happen only after we work toward a more solid self, based on a clear understanding of our part in the relationship patterns that keep us stuck.

You know, Dad," Ben said matter-of-factly, "as we get closer and closer to home, I can just feel the layers of maturity peeling off me.

We cannot make another person change his or her steps to an old dance, but if we change our own steps, the dance no longer can continue

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Learning is finding. Finding is losing something else.

Our anger can be a powerful vehicle for personal growth and change if it does nothing more than help us recognize that we are not yet clear about something and that it is our job to keep struggling with it.

Forgive all who have offended you, not for them, but for yourself.

I grew up like a neglected weed - ignorant of liberty, having no experience of it.

There was something frantic in their blooming, as if they knew that frost was near and then the bitter cold. They'd lived through all the heat and noise and stench of summertime, and now each widely opened flower was like a triumphant cry, "We will, we will make seed before we die.

Try to realize it's all within yourself no one else can make you change, and to see you're only very small and life flows on within you and without you.

Parenting is an impossible job at any age.

Big changes in our lives are more or less a second chance.

We all have big changes in our lives that are more or less a second chance.

Right now this feels like everything. Right now it always is. It's only afterwards that we can see there's more than this. You can be informed by this without being formed by this just as a calm before the storm there is a dark before the dawn in this.

Education does more than prepare us for careers and expand our minds. It enlarges our world—the number of people with whom we can connect. Because education covers so much ground, it helps us find more of the ground that is common to others whom we meet. The more you learn, the more people you can engage. All education is relevant, all education is practical, all education helps us grow. Keep reading, keep listening, keep learning.

As in golf, so in the rest of our lives. We practice our strengths but ignore our weaknesses. You can see the waste. You can only improve your strengths so much, if at all. Even if you improve them, there's a good chance no one will notice; slight improvements are hard to spot. What people do notice are your weaknesses; if you can improve those, your improvement can be dramatic, and visible to everyone. Find your weaknesses and work on them.

People get smarter. The human brain has a potential for development. Some day it will grow big enough so that everybody will see and understand the truth, and then we won't act like a bunch of sheep, and then that wall separates the two sides of us will crumble, just like the wall of Jericho.

feel a rush of something. Pride, I think. I'm not always good at naming my feelings – it's something I used to practice

You owe it to yourself to be the best person possible. Because if you are, others will want to be with you, want to provide you with the things you want in exchange for what you're giving to them.

3. Don't attempt to perpetuate a relationship by contract. Change is inevitable.