Quotes About Growth

First, you fill the pits. That, in turn, frees you up to focus on the second stage: creating the moments that will make the experience "occasionally remarkable." Fill pits, then build peaks.

Even in failure there is success.

What she gained was the insight that comes from experience.

Small targets lead to small victories, and small victories can often trigger a positive spiral of behavior.

Failing is often the best way to learn, and because of that, early failure is a kind of necessary investment.

Transitions should be marked, milestones commemorated, and pits filled. That's the essence of thinking in moments.

What's working, and how can we do more of it?" Sounds simple, doesn't it? Yet, in the real world, this obvious question is almost never asked. Instead, the question we ask is more problem focused: "What's broken, and how do we fix it?

We can't unlearn what we already know and there are only two ways to beat the curse, the first is not to learn anything, the second is to transform our ideas.

Annoying mishaps always seem to cluster around times of spiritual fruitfulness. That's not exactly coincidence.

Life is a life-long assignment that must be constantly analyzed, clarified, figured out, and responded to appropriately.

Nothing worth knowing can ever be taught in a classroom.

Co-creation partnerships that prosper reject selfishness; they are all about "How can I serve you?

Each day I walked into the office and asked myself, "If I had to compete against lululemon, what would I do?" This allowed me to cannibalize what was working today for what would be best for the future.

Never choose something because it's easier.

I don't put much stock in remembering things. Being able to forget is a superior skill.

The mark of a wise man is that he changes his mind when he sees mistake.

For isn't that what our homes are ultimately, our fantasies made corporeal, our secret selves exposed? The converse is also true: we grow to become that which we live within.

Perhaps that was why I had to endure pain—because true transformation can only happen in the crucible of suffering

Bela had thought she knew what love felt like, but when she saw Sanjay at the airport after six long months, her heart gave a great, hurtful lurch, as though it were trying to leap out of her body to meet him. This, she thought. This is it. But it was only part of the truth. She would learn over the next years that love can feel a lot of different ways, and sometimes it can hurt a lot more.

How pride had kept them from admitting their mistakes—and

Love was full of contradictions. Sometimes the person you loved weakened you and sometimes he or she made you a stronger person.

I heard the laments of the people of Hastinapur, their sorrow at losing us. But I no longer required their tears. It baffled me that as a younger women I'd thought that such a thing would make me happy.

But sometimes the only way to healing is through the corridor of pain.

Perhaps that was why I had to endure pain— because true transformation can only happen in the crucible of suffering. All impurities fall away from gold only when it's heated to melting.