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Quotes About Growth

The movement toward gratitude, authenticity, and union is the natural and organic inner work of the second half of our lives.
~ Richard Rohr
The more one works, the better one works, and the more one wants to work. The more one produces, the more fertile one grows.
~ Charles Baudelaire
Being broken is both God's work and ours. He brings His pressure to bear, but we have to make the choice...All day long the choice will be before us in a thousand ways.
~ Roy Hession
It is difficult for the isolated individual to work himself out of the immaturity which has become almost natural for him.
~ Immanuel Kant
Of all work-schools, a good farm is probably the best for motor development.
~ G. Stanley Hall
The path of social advancement is, and must be, strewn with broken friendships.
~ H. G. Wells
I think it's good that I had some experience of the real world before I became successful. You know, having to get up in the morning and going to work in construction.
~ Tom Jones
Understanding the materials I work with... gives me a deeper understanding of my place. And it's helped me make sense of the changes that are happening to me as I grow older.
~ Andy Goldsworthy
It is no disgrace to start all over; it is usually an opportunity.
~ George Madison Adams
I don't just work! I think about my work, reflect on my work and think of what changes can I make, how can I elevated my game.
~ Eric Thomas
I made a conscious effort that I just wanted to work with people that were going to make me better and that was the main thing - writers, directors, in whatever medium.
~ Josh Duhamel
Remember that this is not something we do just once or twice. Interrupting our destructive habits and awakening our heart is the work of a lifetime.
~ Pema Chodron
Life is a challenge. Realize that and work, every day, to rise up and meet it.
~ Denise Austin
Two things I'm trying to work on are openness and flexibility.
~ Lili Taylor
When bad things happen, it's the time when you get to work in the garden and sort out the pots from the weeds.
~ Elizabeth Hurley
The easy way out is often just that-the 'easy' way out of the most rewarding lifestyle.
~ Albert Ellis
I made a mistake and I'll work in the season to be better. It's part of life to be a man and don't try to hide something if it's broken.
~ Miguel Cabrera
As I get older, I feel better about myself because I've done a lot of spiritual work on myself and balanced myself out, and so I feel more confident about myself as a person and as a woman.
~ Marisa Berenson
Your work is to find healing. And I find, for me, it's a little bit at a time, and eventually it's barely there. And the journey is finding what works for you and doing it.
~ India.Arie
Be yourself. If something you do doesn't work, don't do it the next time. Listen to yourself - you know what appropriate behavior is.
~ Greg Behrendt
Used to be marketing was viewed as the people with crayons and scissors who did creative work. Now it's seen as central to driving growth.
~ Jim Speros
Themes recur again and again in my work.
~ Eve Arnold
As we learn to have compassion for ourselves, the circle of compassion for others - what and whom we can work with, and how - becomes wider.
~ Pema Chodron
I love to work. I love to have complexity.
~ Mary McDonnell