Quotes About Growth

I don't actually care what I climb, only how it affects me. Which means the summit doesn't matter as much as the emotional process.

If you always do what you did, you'll always get what you got.

Be fearless in trying new things, whether they are physical, mental, or emotional, since being afraid can challenge you to go to the next level.

Your soul mate can turn into your cell mate if the mutual desire for growth isn't there.

Everyone says buying your first apartment makes you feel like an adult. What no one mentions is that selling it turns you right back into a child.

Use pain as a stepping stone, not a camp ground.

Vulnerability is not weakness. And that myth is profoundly dangerous... I define vulnerability as emotional risk, exposure, uncertainty. It fuels our daily lives.

It is good to realize that falling apart is not such a bad thing. Indeed, it is as essential to evolutionary and psychological transformation as the cracking of outgrown shells.

Being a mother adds another emotional dimension, a feel for children that I didn't have before I had one. They were a pain before.

Transformation occurs when existing solutions, assumed truths and past decisions are exposed as unrealistic and self-defeating.

Stop turning on your emotional television to watch the same program over & over again, the one that shows how much you suffered from a certain loss: that is only poisoning you, nothing else.

It feels right. But it's emotional. Saying goodbye to anything you've done that long is hard.

You're not to wallow, but if you don't process your regrets, then they remain emotional underground toxins.

In my subconscious, my books were part of a single emotional journey.

I look at emotional pain as something we need to go through in order to grow and learn.

Putting your ego aside and confronting your weaknesses and just letting things happen is hard. Not to use a Scientology term, but it's difficult to do an emotional or an artistic audit.

I accept emotional pain, walk through it, and then come through the other side.

One of the goals of a spiritual practice is self-awareness, and one of the best tools of self-awareness is simple emotional vulnerability.

We are on a very rich emotional and physical journey on this planet.

I think that simply nudging yourself into unfamiliar settings - physical or emotional - can produce surprising results on the writing front.

Pain (any pain-emotional, physical, mental) has a message. Once we get the pains message, and follow its advice, the pain goes away.

Sustained change only happens when we shift at an emotional rather than logical level.

Adolescence is a kind of emotional seasickness. Both are funny, but only in retrospect.

We probably stagnate our children's emotional growth by not letting them have some separation from us.