Quotes About Growth

When we realize that the past is only information, we will have taken our first step towards freeing ourselves from it.

When the life inside of us awakens, we can truly say that "every blooming flower is beautiful

We have come to earth for the growth and completion of our souls. Though we can discard everything else, we can never discard our soul. Though we have to leave everything behind when we die, the one thing we have to take with us is our soul. Your soul is the substance and essence of who you are. For the growth and completion of your soul, you have been crying, laughing, loving, hating, and learning life's lessons in the training hall of enlightenment that is life.

120 year book

Hay cosas que nos hacen envejecer más que el trascurso de los años...

The foundation of existence is not mere being itself (what is) but relationality (what is becoming): union is always toward more being.

XXIV. Wurzeln zu schlagen ist nicht immer ein probates Mittel gegen Einsamkeit.

Don't get so caught up in looking behind you forget to look ahead.

In peaceful times in a peaceful country a man grows up, goes to school, marries, works, suffers illnesses, grows old. He may go through the whole of life without understanding what freedom is. No doubt he always feels free to the extent to which it is proper for a respectable citizen with average powers of imagination to be free.

We grow in direct proportion to the amount of chaos we can sustain and dissipate

The main character of any living system is openness.

But just because you have a bad season doesn't mean you stop planting.

I'm making friends. Feeling good. My new name makes me feel lighter on my feet. With a new name, anything is possible.

Here and now, I don't want to be Detroit Red. I want to slip the skin of this life, to be new and clean again.

For a second, I get a little sad about it. Not the leaving—just the way it seems like the world is always changing, right underneath my feet.

Maybe it had been me causing this trouble all along. All my antics. I was the problem, the one who couldn't do right, no matter what.

Me, I'd rather be out in that world than stuck in those closed-up ivy halls that weren't meant to fit me.

Wer von wenig Wissen nicht profitiert, ist weit davon entfernt, von viel Wissen zu profitieren.

just hope it's still living then. The trees don't know your race or your gender identity or your sexuality. The trees don't expel you

Having a child makes you strong and gives you chutzpah. It relaxed my attitude to the job my center of focus shifted, which I think is very helpful, because even if you're not a very indulgent actor you spend a lot of time thinking about yourself. I don't think that is particularly healthy.

Cuando yo es imposible para nosotros cambiar una situacion, el reto es cambiarnos a nosotros mismos.

The year you become famous is the year you stop growing as a person. Like, Michael Jackson became famous at five or something, which is why he is permanently five. He wants to play children's games, hang out with kids, build a bloody fun fair in his backyard, and eat sweeties. Robbie Williams was 16, which is why he is always shagging girls and behaving like a teenager. George [Clooney], on the other hand, was nearly 40, which is why he is such a delightful, well-rounded individual.

Cross-cultural marriage is difficult, especially when one person has to live in another country. But I thought there was a very good chance of it working because people grow together if they have a common passion.

In fact the experience at Oxford has really helped me later in life.