Quotes About Growth

There has never been a time in my career when I have faced the empty page and not been scared. I was scared as a junior-coassistant-copy-cub-intern. And I'm scared today.

You cannot pursue greatness and comfort at the same time.

There is a point at which fear must face the God you know. At this point, you decide whether you wish to continue repeating this false narrative in your head and remain stagnant or move head and actually live your life

This is life, a pattern of renewal, growth, and change. None of us are really ever the same over the course of a lifetime. The tragedy is not learning the lessons within the experiences we have.

They are reluctant to do the serious work of change, feeling that it would be easier to throw a new blanket over the moldy mattress and carry on with life as usual.

We grew up together but we won't grow old together.

Each generation stamps itself onto the next one. The impression is indelible. Like the flowers in my mother's gardens that come and go with the changing seasons, life re-creates itself. And the best of life must be nurtured if it is to thrive.

If we had paid no more attention to our plants than we have to our children, we would now be living in a jungle of weed.

It is well for people who think, to change their minds occasionally in order to keep them clean.

Flowers always make people better, happier, and more helpful; they are sunshine, food and medicine to the mind.

It is well for people who think, to change their minds ocasionally in order to keep them clean.

Do not feed children on maudlin sentimentalism or dogmatic religion; give them nature.

A lie is like a snow-ball; the longer it is rolled, the larger it is.

Whenever the word is rightly preached, and attentively heard, it never fails to bring forth fruit.

Men are so delving into the mysteries of things that today a boy of twenty knows more than twenty doctors formerly knew.

Speak not of what you know until you become that of which you speak, for a witch is what you are rather than something you do.

A vida não tece apenas uma teia de perdas, mas nos proporciona uma sucessão de ganhos.

Nisso reside nossa possível tragédia: o desperdício de uma vida com seus talentos truncados se não conseguirmos ver ou não tivermos audácia para mudar para melhor — em qualquer momento, e em qualquer idade.

Mas é necessário cortar com o que ele eventualmente tem de sufocante: pois pode ser também jaula, voragem, fundo de poço. Se ficarmos demais presos, teremos de nos puxar pelos próprios cabelos para outro espaço onde mesmo com susto e incertezas a gente possa respirar e decidir o que fazer agora.

Mas será sobre nós, nossa esperança ou pessimismo, nosso afeto ou frieza, que os filhos darão os primeiros de seus muitos passos. E farão isso com seus filhos futuramente. Serão tão fundamentais para eles quanto os pais de nossos pais foram na geração anterior.

Improving ourselves is not the sacrifice the Lord calls us to.

I'd never put my child through what God is doing to me." But God is a wiser parent than we could ever be. He places us in situations that provoke us, not to cause us to doubt but to strengthen us against our doubts.

That very thing you want God to fix may be his instrument to teach you first to depend on him rather than on yourself or on peaceful circumstances.

he descubierto que mis obsesiones al servicio de mis pasiones advierten a la que seré el resto de mi vida.