Quotes About Growth

You don't think your way into a new kind of living. You live your way into a new kind of thinking.

A good judgment is usually the result of experience. And experience is frequently the result of bad judgment. But to learn from the experience of others requires those who have the experience to share the knowledge with those who follow.

Some positive persisting fops we know, Who, if once wrong, will needs be always so; But you, with pleasure own your errors past, And make each day a critic on the last. —Alexander Pope, An Essay on Criticism

It is easier to learn to interpret dreams if you have a reason to use them for something constructive. You apply your dream insights to making constructive changes in your life.

You don't make me feel like you used to. That's why I'm leaving That's why people leave each other They come to their senses and get selfish again.

I definitely learned a lesson this time. I know that I can be broken. I am not as tough as I thought. I see it now. At this point, it's the only thing good that came out of all of this. I know myself better now and know what I have to do.

I have always thought that change you can see and feel is best.

I've made some great mistakes in my life, but, you know, they were honest mistakes.

Books are cool, but knowledge without mileage doesn't mean anything to me.

One day, I stopped hating. I ceased all meaningless activity. I completed the circle. I Set my sights straight. Like an Arrow I flew. I stopped acting. I got tired of playing with you. Random violence and destruction Because my reason for living, my out, My excuse. What is your excuse? Destruction. Without hate, without fear, Without judgement. I am no better Than you. No-one knows this better Than I do. I just got tired of playing Parlor Games.

I have gone to great lengths to expand my threshold of pain.

It wasn't until my late twenties that I learned that by working out I had given myself a great gift. I learned that nothing good comes without work and a certain amount of pain. When I finish a set that leaves me shaking, I know more about myself. When something gets bad, I know it can't be as bad as that workout.

I want to be that which overcomes itself Listening to them makes me weak and small I watch them go out and fuck each other They tell me that I'm crazy The years scar me I don't want a smooth ride I want the crushing wheel

In my world there would be as many libraries as there are Starbucks.

You used to frustrate me with your shallow embrace Now you don't make me feel anything

I think to myself and at the same time, I know these thoughts can't be the ones I really want to think. That there must be something better to have on my mind than what fills it and refuses to stop occupying all the room.

Open your eyes. Your tears cut a trail. Your scars build a ladder that takes you to a place that you could not have gotten to any other way. Take a look around, remember every second, every breath, every choked scream. Scar tissue is stronger than regular tissue. Realize the strength. Move on.

Yesterday wants to pull me in, pull me down and starve me.

All his life he believed everything his father told him. Now he's in his mid-thirties and he's his own man. He hates his father's guts but no longer fears him. He never said NO to the fucker even he was humiliating him in front of his friends. Now he works extra hard to raise his self-respect. It has taken him years to find out who he is. Years spent trying to wash the father blood from his body. He's earned his life.

Half of life is fucking up, the other half is dealing with it.

I definitely learned a lesson this time. I know that I can be broken. I am not as tough as I thought. I see it now. At this point, it's the only thing good that came out of all of this. I know myself better now and know what I have to do.

It is sad when someone you know becomes someone you knew.

Unuttuklar?n?z için harcad???n?z uzun saatlere de üzülmemelisiniz, çünkü yitirilen bilginin gölgesi sizi en az?ndan birçok yan?lsamadan korur. (William Johnson Cory)

Each experience through which we pass operates ultimately for our good. This is a correct attitude to adopt and we must be able to see it in that light.