Quotes About Growth

Discomfort is always a necessary part of the process of enlightenment.

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And roots, if they are to bear fruits, must be kept well in the soil of the land.

I do not blame you, child, for growing up," she announced. "But I teach you this: Whatever happens is always the woman's fault.

I reminded myself that time takes care of many things. Asia had thought me that.

The very young are not ready for much knowledge. It must be given to them slowly, in proportion to their years of life. One must first live before he can safely know.

U meni postoji mjesto gdje živim posve sama; tu obnavljam svoja prolje?a koja nikad ne presahnu

weak? You must learn to take from a person that which is his best and ignore all else.

I am entirely happy except that I feel the need of more knowledge of some sort. What sort I do not know myself." "Perhaps it is not so much knowledge as more understanding of that which you already know

Love dies only when growth stops.

Whatever came to him was good. It was life. It was knowledge.

The old deep sadness of life lay in the bottom of her heart and she knew it was there, but she would not allow herself to sink into it. Out of the dark and sullen bottom of a lake the lotus flowers bloomed upon its surface, and she would pluck the flowers.

One faces the future with one's past

Nations, like individuals, can only learn by their own individual experience." Yul-chun

At that hour of deep loathing she was healed of all her heat and youth, and she was young no more.

At one time or another, every young man will get a letter of admission to dick school. The question is will he drop out, graduate, or go for an advanced degree?

So even if the hot loneliness is there, and for 1.6 seconds we sit with that restlessness when yesterday we couldn't sit for even one, that's the journey of the warrior. (68)

No one ever tells us to stop running away from fear...the advice we usually get is to sweeten it up, smooth it over, take a pill, or distract ourselves, but by all means make it go away. (5)

Nothing ever goes away until it has taught us what we need to know.

As long as our orientation is toward perfection or success, we will never learn about unconditional friendship with ourselves, nor will we find compassion.

When we touch the center of sorrow, when we sit with discomfort without trying to fix it, when we stay present to the pain of disapproval or betrayal and let it soften us, these are times that we connect with bohdichitta.

None of us is ever OK, but we all get through everything just fine.

Don't let life harden your heart.

we can let the circumstances of our lives harden us so that we become increasingly resentful and afraid, or we can let them soften us and make us kinder and more open to what scares us. We always have this choice.