Quotes About Growth

A wrong that cannot be repaired must be transcended.

So the first step out of childhood is made all at once, without looking before or behind, without caution, and nothing held in reserve.

I can only say what I myself have learned: that life's purpose is to grow. We have time in abundance- an enternity, in fact- to repeat our mistakes. We only need to correct them once, however- to learn our lesson and hear the song of enlightenment- to break the chain of vengeance forever. If we can do this personally, no matter how many others follow, our hearts will at least find peace.

Hating people who wronged me only kept me in their power. Forgiving them and thanking them for the lessons they taught me, on the other hand set me free to continue on my way.

I can't believe it's been four years now, and from watching that pilot, we really all looked like babies. It's unbelievable just how far everything has come. I'm happier now than I've ever been on the show and in my life. I really owe so much of my happiness to 'Glee.'

I love that boy to death, but he's a constant challenge.

The Victorians needed parody. Without it their literature would have been a rank and weedy growth, over-watered with tears.

All life is evolving, for evolution is God's law; and man grows slowly and steadily along with the rest.

Every healthy person hungers. To know things for himself. Form his own questions, test his own ideas. Funny how a person's own family is often the first to punish him for that.

Whatever life lessons we can glean from having read, perhaps being middle of a book is what really counts as living.

We are going to innovate ourselves out of this downturn," Jobs declared in 2001 when the PC industry was in recession

In a company that was born to innovate, the risk is in not innovating," Jony said. "The real risk is to think it is safe to play it safe.

Jobs said that he looked to his hero Bob Dylan for inspiration. One of the things that Jobs admired about Dylan was his refusal to stand still. Many successful artists at some point in their careers atrophy: they keep doing what made them successful in the first place, but they don't evolve. "If they keep on risking failure, they're still artists," Jobs said. "Dylan and Picasso were always risking failure.

if there's not some sort of friction in a move forward, your step is not as consequential as you'd like to believe it is

being excited about being wrong because that means you've discovered something new.

I'm living life as best I can - but I'm not exempt from failure and making bad choices.

My relationship with Dean was great, but ultimately it wasn't a fulfilling marriage for either of us.

That's what therapy is for," Luc said. "No one's life is perfect. At some point you have to grow up and take responsibility for who you are and what you want.

A man who denies his past is a man who truly denies himself a future, for he refuses to know himself.

Take responsibility for making your own life beautiful.

Higher has always been the trajectory of intelligent evolution.

In the Eleusinian mysteries, they would always warn people, "if you go in here, your ego will die. You're going to have to confront all your past hang-ups, strip them off, and be a changed person." One emperor of Rom who wanted to be initiated in the Eleusinian mysteries said, "That's interesting, I approve of what you're doing, but I don't want to be changed."

Grow within the flow.

Growing up closes so many doors. The modern world doesn't allow for miracles, so we don't see them. It's a very precious gift, an open mind, but it's not passive. You've got to nurture it like a bed of roses; otherwise it will wither and die. Make sure you don't close off your mind to things you find strange. Sometimes they may be the only truth.