Quotes About Growth

Bakat harus dilatih, bukan hanya dilahirkan.

It feels nice to be comfortable, but if we're comfortable all the time, we miss out on the chance to stretch and grow.

Life is about refinement, not perfection. And you still have refining to do.

I'd always believed that a life of quality, enjoyment and wisdom were my human birthright and would be automatically bestowed upon me as time passed. I never suspected that I would have to learn how to live-- that there were specific disciplines and ways of seeing the world I had to master before I could awaken to a simple, happy, uncomplicated life.

think of death as a transformation — a bit more radical than puberty, but nothing to get particularly upset about.

You have tried to be superior in an ordinary realm. Now you must learn to be ordinary in a superior realm.

You will fail many times, but in failing you will learn , and in learning you will find your way.

Learning is a process of refining errors to the point where they no longer prevent our desired goal.

Under the weight of my growing self-knowledge, my self-image was sinking fast.

The seed of God is in us: Pear seeds grow into pear trees; Hazel seeds into hazel trees; And God seeds into God. —Meister Eckehart

Life is not a private affair. A story and its lessons are only made useful if shared.

People from all walks of life share an innate drive for meaning, direction, and purpose. This drive to understand our life purpose seems as important to our psychological growth as eating is to our biological survival.

First mountains are mountains and rivers are rivers. Than mountains are no longer mountains and rivers are no longer rivers. Finally mountains are mountains and rivers are rivers.

Energy follows thought; no matter how hard we work or how much we know, we tend to rise to our assumed limits, and no higher.

The forest didn't really change much at night, but I did.

from the path of expertise, or refining skills, to the path of mastery, the moment I realized the connection between training and life.

have shown you the way of the peaceful warrior, not the way to the peaceful warrior. As long as you tread the way, you are a warrior.

As you learn to accept your emotions fully, however, without allowing them to drive or limit your behavior, you'll find it less necessary to change or fix them.

Life develops what it demands

As we die from one life into the next... we may also die and be reborn in a single lifetime... and the story, the journey, goes on and on...

I was just going to tell you that I'm really willing to change. That's one thing about me; I've always been open to change." "That," said Socrates, "is one of your biggest illusions. You've been willing to change clothes, hairstyles, women, apartments, and jobs. You are all too willing to change anything except yourself, but change you will.

If we can stop judging our mistakes so harshly, we can also stop ourselves from reactively engaging in the negative behaviors.

you may stir up problems around you because you're used to keeping life a little aggravating—because you don't cope well with smooth sailing. As

But as we mature and begin to grasp that we are often the cause of our own difficulties, we begin a process of compassionate self-observation leading to deeper self-knowledge — denial gives way to authenticity as the light of awareness penetrates our shadow. We come to accept ourselves (and others) as we are rather than as we might want ourselves (or them) to be. And as we embrace the full scope of our humanity, we open the way to genuine growth and transformation.