Quotes About Growth

Every time you say, "I don't know," you shut the door to your own inner wisdom.

If we choose to believe we are helpless victims and that it's all hopeless, then the Universe will support us in that belief, and we will just go down the drain. It is vital that we release these foolish, outmoded, negative ideas and beliefs that do not support us and nourish us. Even our concept of God needs to be one that is for us, not against us.

We are all victims of victims, and they could not possibly have taught us anything they did not know.

The four sayings that lead to wisdom: I was wrong I'm sorry I don't know I need help

I think many people love their problems. Gives them all sorts of excuses for not growing up and getting on with life.

But there was no hiding from Conscience. Not in new homes and new cars. In travel. In meditation or frantic activity. In children, in good works. On tiptoes or bended knee. In a big career. Or a small cabin. It would find you. The past always did. Which was why... it was vital to be aware of actions in the present. Because the present became the past, and the past grew. And got up, and followed you. And found you... Who wouldn't be afraid of this?

Life is loss. But out of that, as the book stresses, comes freedom. If we can accept that nothing is permanent, and change is inevitable, if we can adapt, then we're going to be happier people.

while forgetting the past might condemn people to repeat it, remembering it too vividly condemned them to never leave.

it was vital to be aware of actions in the present. Because the present became the past, and the past grew. And got up, and followed you.

the four statements that lead to wisdom: I don't know. I need help. I was wrong. I'm sorry.

Living our lives was like living in a long house. We entered as babies at one end, and we exited when our time came. And in between we moved through this one, great, long room. Everyone we ever met, and every thought and action lived in that room with us. Until we made peace with the less agreeable parts of our past they'd continue to heckle us from way down the long house. And sometimes the really loud, obnoxious ones told us what to do, directing our actions even years later.

Non. He said, 'Be very, very careful who you let into your life. And learn to make peace with whatever happens. You can't erase the past. It's trapped in there with you. But you can make peace with it. If you don't,' he said, 'you'll be at perpetual war.

He knew time could heal. But it could also do more damage. A forest fire, spread over time, would consume everything.

Light is every bit as challenging as dark. We can discover a great deal about ourselves by looking at beauty.

told him the four sentences that lead to wisdom. He'd said them only once, never repeating them. But once had been enough for Gamache. I'm sorry. I was wrong. I need help. I don't know.

Chief Inspector Gamache's says there are 'four sentences that lead to wisdom: I don't know. I need help. I'm sorry. I was wrong.

There are four statements that lead to wisdom. I want you to remember them and follow them. Are you ready?' Agent Lemieux had taken out his notebook and, pen poised, he'd listened. 'You need to learn to say: I don't know. I'm sorry. I need help and I was wrong.

What's the use of healing, if the life that's saved is callow and selfish and ruled by fear? There's a difference between being in sanctuary and being in hiding.

the four sentences that lead to wisdom. I'm sorry. I was wrong. I need help. I don't know.

I'll pray that you grow up a brave man in a brave country," Clara said. "I will pray you find a way to be useful," Gamache completed the quote. Reine-Marie dropped her eyes to her hands and saw the paper napkin twisted and shredded there. Clara nodded slowly. "I think you might be right. Peter went to Paris not to find a new artistic voice. It was simpler than that. He wanted to find a way to be useful.

If you pretend to know you aren't going to actually learn.

All children are sad, but some get over it.

Sometimes the only way up is down. Sometimes the only way forward is to back up.

We can all fall," said the abbot. "But perhaps not as hard and not as fast and not as far as someone who spends his life on the ascent.