Quotes About Growth

What is learning: accumulating knowledge? Or transforming our lives?

So it was in life. In order for the more substantial pieces of wood to catch fire, the kindling must burn first. In order for us to liberate the energy of our strength, our weakness must first have a chance to reveal itself. In order for us to understand the powers we carry within us and the secrets that have already been revealed, it was first necessary to allow the surface expectations, fears, appearances – to be burned away.

and love is not swayed by opinions; love accepts its companion unconditionally and allows each to grow in his or her own way

But never hold back from firing the arrow if all that paralyzes you is fear of making a mistake. If you ave made the right movements, open your hand and release the string. Even if the arrow fails to hit the target, you will learn how to improve your aim next time. If you never take a risk, you will never know what changes you need to make. Each arrow leaves a memory in your heart, and it is the sum of those memories that will make you shoot better and better.

You are better, do not worry - she said. - In fact, when we light up our inner light, the first things we see are the cobwebs and dust, our weak points. They were there all the time, only you saw nothing in the darkness. Now it will be easier to cleanse your soul.

We must love because we are loved by God. We must be conscious of death if we are to have a proper understanding of life. We must struggle in order to grow

Life is not a holiday, but an education. And the most important lesson we can learn is how to love. How to love better.

Sometimes, certain of God's blessings arrive by shattering all the windows.

4 the first time, I will avoid anything that makes me suffer, because suffering is not a virtue.. I will not complain about life, saying, Everything is always the same and I have nothin' 2 change it. Because I'm livin' this day as if it were my first and, while it lasts, I will discover things that I didn't even know were there.

Quien ama necesita saber perderse y encontrarse.

Man needs what's worst in him in order to achieve what's best in him.

The feet of labourers, pilgrims and explorers smoothed these stones. The stones were changed and the travellers were too.

I, too, get scared, but it's at such moments that I discover a wisdom that is beyond me, and I go forward.

If you only walk on sunny days you'll never reach your denstination.

When it first shoots up out of the earth, we don't condemn it as immature and underdeveloped, nor do we criticize the buds for not being open when they appear. We stand in wonder at the process taking place, and give the plant the care it needs at each stage of its development.

Blessed are those who are not afraid to admit that they don't know something

The act of living one's own destiny includes a series of stages that are far beyond our understanding, whose objective is always to... make us learn the lessons necessary to fulfill our own destiny.

When you can't go back, you only have to worry about the best way of moving forward.

Jealously would kill you from inside, if you water the plant of jealousy with anger instead of hard work

Angels are love in motion. They never rest, they struggle to grow, and they are beyond good and evil. Love that consumes all, that destroys all, that forgives all. Angels are made of that love, and are at the same time its messengers.

It was the new moon that Veronika loved best because there was still room for it to grow, to expand, to fill the whole of its surface with light before its inevitable decline.

Never go to failure but vary the difficulty of your sets. For example, your estimated best in the side press is four reps. Some sets do one or two reps, others three. Play by the seat of your pants.

I'm not as good as I once was, but I am as good once as I ever was.

J]e t'ai dressée à te soumettre, de même qu'une fleur subit le soleil et la pluie.