Quotes About Growth

The prime purpose of being four is to enjoy being four - of secondary importance is to prepare for being five.

We are given children to test us and make us more spiritual.

It's possible to be completely enlightened... except with your family.

A loving family provides the foundation children need to succeed.

Family is more than DNA, more than who we used to be, more than we can imagine we will become.

I have slowly come to realize that a family is composed of people who are teaching one another.

My family had all kinds of complications in relationships. I would like to meet the person who did not. Since when is being absolutely perfect what being a human is? What do we gain from that?

There's a lot there to enlarge you. That's part of the value of being in an extended family is that it enlarges you. It makes you bigger. It makes you more.

If you can raise a family, then you can build a business.

Whether it's at their job, or their family, whatever - everyone feels that they're stuck in some kind of struggle. The idea is how to find your way out of it.

Our education should be such as to improve our minds and fit us for increased usefulness; to make us of greater service to the human family.

And that's the wonderful thing about family travel: it provides you with experiences that will remain locked forever in the scar tissue of your mind.

I grew up with a big family. I want that. I want to have my own family.

If you economically empower a woman, she represents enormous opportunity that can actually be transformative not only for her family and for her community, but at the aggregate level for the economy.

My family is my biggest inspiration. My son, my husband, and my family inspire me to be better, do better, and live better.

This is how you hold onto your family. You hold them with open hands so they are free to find futures of their own. It's just that simple.

Loving, hating, having expectations: all these are attachments. Attachment prevents the growth of one's true being.

Family isn't something that's supposed to be static, or set. People marry in, divorce out. They're born, they die. It's always evolving, turning into something else.

I see the friends I made over the years who have become family today, people I became acquainted with who have achieved so much in their lives. They taught me something with each meeting.

You don't pick your family, you take what you're given and you make the best of it.

After a certain age, the more one becomes oneself, the more obvious one's family traits become.

Compassion for our parents is the true sign of maturity.

You look at your past and things that are unresolved and figure out what you need to do to move forward and fill a role with your family and in your community.

I'm a family guy. A lot of my songs are inspired by my kids. Simple relationships. Watching them grow up, watching them share experiences with me and vice versa.