Quotes About Growth

Doing something prompts you to do something else, replacing a vicious cycle with a virtuous one. Most big transformations come about from the hundreds of tiny, almost imperceptible, steps we take along the way.

A second quality of mature spirituality is kindness. It is based on a fundamental notion of self-acceptance.

a mudança e a perda andam juntas. Não podemos ter mudanças sem perda, motivo pelo qual é tão frequente as pessoas dizerem que querem mudar, mas mesmo assim continuarem exatamente iguais.

They may not be able to imagine their depression lifting anytime soon, but they don't need to. Doing something prompts you to do something else, replacing a vicious cycle with a virtuous one. Most big transformations come about from the hundreds of tiny, almost imperceptible, steps we take along the way.

Breakups are awful," Claire says, popping some grapes in her mouth. "But we'd be negligent if we didn't do them.

Implicit in the therapeutic contract is the patient's willingness to tolerate discomfort, because some discomfort is unavoidable for the process to be effective.

do with the time he gains except kill it." Fromm was right;

I particularly liked this line from Frankl's book: "Between stimulus and response there is a space. In that space is our power to choose our response. In our response lies our growth and our freedom.

Most big transformations come about from the hundreds of tiny, almost imperceptible, steps we take along the way. A lot can happen in the space of a step.

People want to be understood and to understand, but for most of us, our biggest problem is that we don't know what our problem is. We keep stepping in the same puddle.

A lot can happen in the space of a step.

She wasn't willing to look at what she was doing that made it difficult for people to give her what she wanted.

It's not about lowering your standards—it's about maturing and having reasonable expectations.

Not knowing is a good place to start," he says, and this feels like a revelation. I

transformations come about from the hundreds of tiny, almost imperceptible, steps we take along the way.

Sometimes we are the cause of our difficulties. And if we can step out of our own way, something astonishing happens.

It's impossible to grow without first becoming vulnerable.

We grow in connection with others. Everyone needs to hear that other person's voice saying, I believe in you. I can see possibilities that you might not see quite yet. I imagine that something different can happen, in some form or another. In therapy we say, Let's edit your story.

Brez izgube ni spremembe, in prav zato se pogosto dogaja, da sicer ljudje izrazijo željo po spremembi, a kljub temu ostanejo pri starem.

It may seem counterintuitive, but therapy works best when people start getting better—when they feel less depressed or anxious, or the crisis has passed. Now they're less reactive, more present, more able to engage in the work. Unfortunately, sometimes people leave just as their symptoms lift, not realizing (or perhaps knowing all too well) that the work is just beginning and that staying will require them to work even harder.

Most things worth doing are difficult," he replied. He said this not in a glib way but in a tone and with an expression that made me think he spoke from personal experience. He added that while everyone wants to leave each session feeling better, I, of all people, should know that that's not always how therapy works. If I wanted to feel good in the short term, he said, I could eat a piece of cake or have an orgasm. But he wasn't in the short-term-gratification business.

impossible to grow without first becoming vulnerable.

needed to remember that he would never be that man again. As he was now, he did not

Her changing perception of time had altered the sum of her reflections.