Quotes About Growth

The times make those who live in them

You never know," said Raistlin with a glance at the kitchen. "People change.

Rapid business growth, increased downsizing, frequent reorganizations, mergers, acquisitions, and joint ventures have inadvertently increased the number of attractive employment opportunities for individuals with psychopathic personalities

In the school they teach you what the world means, and once you have learned, you will always know, Amar's father had told him. But suppose the world changes? Amar had thought. Then what would you know?

There are ways from light into darkness and from darkness into light. There are ways, also, from the gloom into deeper darkness, and from the dawn into brighter light. The wise man will use the light he has to receive more fight. He will constantly advance in the knowledge of truth.32

Spring: trees flying up to their birds

Life always finds a way

You don't need to improve your performance every time you train—this becomes impossible as you get more advanced—but your sessions should display a general line of progression through the months and years, or you've just been spinning your wheels.

if your training isn't gradually lessening the pain in your life, you're doing something wrong.

Getting your ass away from the gym is probably the number one thing you can do to start kicking your gains up a notch.

Parents rarely let go of their children, so children let go of them. They move on. They move away. The moments that used to define them are covered by moments of their own accomplishments. It is not until much later, that children understand; their stories and all their accomplishments, sit atop the stories of their mothers and fathers, stones upon stones, beneath the water of their lives.

Maybe the journey isn't so much about becoming anything. Maybe it's about un-becoming everything that isn't really you, so you can be who you were meant to be in the first place.

It takes a while to become one of God's Good Women, and in the process you learn that you can't avoid every mistake or please everyone. There simply isn't time to be that uptight and rigid. God designed limits to your time, treasure, and talents so you wouldn't squander your life away. Recognizing your limited time here on earth can motivate you to say, "Good-bye, perfectionism, I don't have time for you!

many people will only change due to desperation

We are to live with heavenly things in mind and with our feet firmly on the ground. We won't be redemptive forces for good if we don't grasp this, and our spiritual growth will be truncated. Personal piety alone won't cut it, but marry piety to shrewdness, as Jesus did, and you're on your way, Good Guy.

If you will consistently speak the truth in love and display gracious firmness, you will grow in maturity and find that you are attracting a healthy crop of spiritually mature friends.*

If I still adhered to perfect work, I never would have written this imperfect book, which for the last decade or so has changed lives across the globe.

Roman poet Ovid wrote: "Be patient and tough; some day this pain will be useful to you.

When CNGs avoid the often difficult but necessary look into their childhood influences, they sentence themselves to very small lives, full of internal and external conflicts. Instead of learning how to do conflict well, they avoid it at all costs, setting themselves up for even more painful experiences with manipulative people.

It really hurts when your friends (particularly Christian friends) unfairly criticize your efforts to become a healthier, more Christlike woman. But don't let your hurt stop your journey. Keep moving toward your destination.

who was a lot more than just the sum of their weaknesses.

Childhood is built on bad decision-making.

There's plenty about my life I can't change. Can't bring the dead back to life on this earth. Can't make the world loving and kind. Can't change myself into a millionaire. But a patch of ground in this trashy lot -- I can change that. Can change it big. Better to put my time into that than moaning about the other all day.

My class had sprouted lima beans in paper cups the year before. I now placed a bean in each of the holes. I covered them up, pressing the soil down firmly with my fingertips. I opened my thermos and watered them all. And I vowed to myself that those beans would thrive.