Quotes About Growth

In order to know the light, we must first experience the darkness.

Sometimes consciousness devises an obstacle in order to have the experience of transcending it.

To experience some healing within yourself, and to contribute healing to the world, you are summoned to wade through the muck from time to time.

Brooklyn is not the easiest place to grow up in, although I wouldn't change that experience for anything.

I no longer scramble blindly through hardship. I no longer emerge from a bad time feeling relieved just to have survived. Instead of despairing, I try to find the lesson within the experience.

The law is simple. Every experience is repeated or suffered till you experience it properly and fully the first time.

Experience may be hard but we claim its gifts because they are real, even though our feet bleed on its stones.

The more hard lessons you can learn vicariously rather than through your own hard experience, the better.

When we experience our own desire for transformation, we are feeling the universe evolving through us.

All experience is great providing you live through it. If it kills you, you've gone too far.

Experience is a great advantage. The problem is that when you get the experience, you're too damned old to do anything about it.

A newborn already has nine months of experience when she is born.

Wounds turn into scars and scars make you tough.

Sometimes you can learn, even from a bad experience. By coping you become stronger. The pain does not go away, but it becomes manageable.

All experience is an enrichment rather than an impoverishment.

Ignorance is innocence - stupidity comes with experience

Do what you can't and experience the beauty of the mistakes you make.

The rich get richer. Not only because they have surpluses with which to invest, but because of the overriding emotional release they experience from having wealth.

I'm not a genius. I'm just a tremendous bundle of experience.

Experience is making mistakes and learning from them.

People mature with age and experience. I hope I more resemble a fine wine than bad vinegar.

I eventually became proud of my strikeouts, because each one represented another learning experience.

I've never made a mistake. I've only learned from experience.

Enlightenment is any experience of expanding our consciousness beyond its present limits.