Quotes About Growth

As fruit ripens in the course of nature, so it is in the course of nature that the soul should mature; and it is no use being disappointed or disheartened.

If one wants to torture oneself for the sake of torture one may do so, but not for spiritual perfection.

the seed has in it the leaf and the flower and the fruit. But the fulfillment of the purpose of that seed is that it is put in the ground, that it is watered, that a seedling springs up and is reared by the sun; it brings forth its flowers and fruits. This is the fulfillment of that seed which already contained in itself the fruit and the flower.

Therefore, the person living the inner life never condemns and does not criticize the objects of another, however small or ridiculous they may appear, for he knows that every object in the life of a person is but a stepping stone which leads him forward if he only wishes to go forward.

evolved. This evolution only means that the soul has adopted a more finished instrument in order to experience life more fully.

Life is a continual series of experiences, one leading to the other, until the soul arrives at its destination.

Your heart is not living until it has experienced pain... The pain of love breaks open the heart, even if it is as hard as a rock.

Every soul is born with concentration; it loses this faculty as it grows up.

Often, it's not about becoming a new person, but becoming the person you were meant to be, and already are, but don't know how to be.

I'm still a kid. I'm like six years old. But it's just a matter of wanting to get up, it's just a big journey. I felt like when I left home that I was on a journey, and I still am.

From 18 to 22, I was alone, living in L.A. with a bunch of friends, partying.

I like to do something I fear.

She takes a deep breathe, "Honey, you will hear this many times, but this will be the hardest heartbreak, your first love always is.

You can do this. Everyday has been a little easier than the last. Today will be better than yesterday and tomorrow will be better than today.

you want to avoid pain in your dating relationships, you are going to have to make a change. You can't take the same path and expect a different outcome. You must take a totally new course.

Your new path is not always going to be easy or even fun, but we must have a renewing of our minds, hearts,

Kid, not everything in life can be summed up neatly in a paragraph. No book has all of the answers. Not even the really good ones. You have to find the answers yourself sometimes.

Because all endings have a certain amount of pain, just as all beginnings contain a certain amount of joy.

i know they say that absence makes the heart grow fonder. but sometimes, absence can also reveal the waning of once fond feelings. time passes and it's a surprise to realize that you haven't missed him, or her, or the place or the job that once felt like a match.

repotting means accepting that the way is forward, not back. it means realizing that we won't again fit into our old shells. but that's not failure. that's living.

it's funny - say no and you'll stay in the same place. say yes and who knows where you'll end up.

I wondered if that principle of renewal could be applied to a person. If you left a girl alone, she could learn to heal herself. She could consciously forget bad things, or at least learn to live with them.

I embraced my mother as well, gently, because I'd outgrown her at age twelve and if I squeezed her too tight, she might snap. You didn't crush flowers, you didn't squeeze birds, and you didn't break your mum.

Love develops for every evolutionary pairing that requires devotion.