Quotes About Growth

Bon Iver, "Holocene

Struggling and suffering are the essence of a life worth living. If you're not pushing yourself beyond the comfort zone, if you're not demanding more from yourself - expanding and learning as you go - you're choosing a numb existence. You're denying yourself an extraordinary trip.

Most people never get there. They're afraid or unwilling to demand enough of themselves and take the easy road, the path of least resistance. But struggling and suffering, as I now saw it, were the essence of a life worth living. If you're not pushing yourself beyond the comfort zone, if you're not constantly demanding more from yourself--expanding and learning as you go--your choosing a numb existence. Your denying yourself an extraordinary trip.

Pain is the body's way of ridding itself of weakness.

Unless you're not pushing yourself, you're not living to the fullest. You can't be afraid to fail, but unless you fail, you haven't pushed hard enough.

Change isn't easy. Changing the way you live means changing the way you think, means changing what you believe about life. That's hard.

No, if there's any ultimate redemption, it would be because I passed though your life without scarring you, and did not diminish who you are.

My life has a mysterious purpose that I don't understand, and day by day, conflict by conflict, I learn by going where I have to go.

Perhaps you have always known everything important but will need a lifetime to discover what you know.

It's so damn hard to bloom... to change. Even when you want to change, want it more than anything in the world, it's hard. Desire to change isn't enough. Or desperation. Couldn't be done without...love

we are in this boot camp to learn, that if we don't persevere through all this world's obstacles and all its wounds, we won't earn our next life of great adventure.

What doesn't quicken dies. That's an indisputable truth of life.

A swelled head is just a result of nature's frenzied efforts to fill a vacuum.

When you start life as a tumor with a brain, there's no where to go but up.

The process, not the final achievement, is what it's all about.

I knew that suffering can purify, that it's a kind of fire that can be worth enduring, but there were degrees of it to which I chose not to subject myself.

That's life. Something always happens. We don't live in stasis, frozen in amber.

He, too, had been glassed-in for a long time, by choice. Now and then he had lifted a hammer to shatter through to something, but he had never struck the blow because he didn't know what he wanted on the other side of the glass.

Buku yang bisa ku baca berulang-ulang, dengan sudut pandang baru dan pengertian baru setiap kalinya.

Because to suffer and do nothing is to be nothing, while to suffer and do something is to become someone. And that is what he is doing: becoming someone.

Those we meet can change us, sometimes so profoundly we are not the same afterwards.

You will always see less as you grow older, otherwise you would not want to go on.

A child born with a weak eye can put a patch over the strong eye and train the weak eye to do what the strong eye already can.

La vie est un apprentissage permanent ; plus on croit savoir, moins on sait, tant les choses changent et avec elles les mentalités.