Quotes About Growth

But ultimately there is no good reason for our suffering, for in every love lies the seed of our growth. The more we love, the closer we come to spiritual experience.

Yes, we are going to suffer, we will have difficult times, and we will experience many disappointments- But all of this is transitory; it leaves no permanent mark.

Each human being has the right to two blessings: getting things right and getting things wrong. In the latter case, there will always be a kind of apprenticeship that will lead him back to the right path.

When a sense of dissatisfaction persists, that means it was placed there by God for one purpose only: you need to change everything and move forward.

And yet we feel obliged to repress our emotions and our desires, because they don't fit with what we call "maturity.

Like everyone else on the planet, you believed that time would teach you to grow closer to God. But time doesn't teach; it merely brings us a sense of weariness and of growing older.

Reprogram yourself every minute of each day with thoughts that make you grow. When you're feeling irritated or confused, try to laugh at yourself. Laugh out loud at this woman tormented by doubts and anxieties, convinced that her problems are the most important thing in the world.

That was the glory of man - to nurture and maintain knowledge.

People aren't used to that way of thinking, they want everything to stay the same. And the consequence of that is pain.

Nothing. Although they are flowers you did not count on, they are still part of the garden.

Flowers teach us that nothing is permanent: not their beauty, not even the fact that they will inevitably wilt, because they will still give new seeds. Remember this when you feel joy, pain, or sadness. Everything passes, grows old, dies, and is reborn." How

Close some doors today. Not because of pride, incapacity, or arrogance, but simply because they lead you nowhere.

The roller-coaster is my life; life is a fast, dizzying game; life is a parachute jump; it's taking chances, falling over and getting up again; it's mountaineering; it's wanting to get to the very top of yourself and to feel angry and dissatisfied when you don't manage it.

We're allowed to make a lot of mistakes in our lives.

one must learn that which is necessary, and not simply what one wants

Do not try to make the road shorter, but travel it in such a way that every action leaves the land more fertile and the landscape more beautiful.

The soil needs the seed, and the seed needs the soil. The one only has meaning with the other.

When you are moving toward an objective,' said Petrus, 'it is very important to pay attention to the road. It is te road that teaches us the best way to get there, and the road enriches us as we walk it's length

i was tired of playing the child and acting the way many of my friends did - the ones who are afraid that love is impossible without even knowing what love is.

Avoiding problems you need to face is avoiding life you need to live

There is only one way to learn," the alchemist answered. "It's through action.

we two have to live with our mistakes

We may think at times that the only thing life offers us tomorrow, is to repeat everything we did today. But if we pay close attention, we will see that no two days are alike.

How the path was forged