Quotes About Growth

I think we all wish we could erase some dark times in our lives. But all of life's experiences, bad and good, make you who you are. Erasing any of life's experiences would be a great mistake.

What do you first do when you learn to swim? You make mistakes, do you not? And what happens? You make other mistakes, and when you have made all the mistakes you possibly can without drowning - and some of them many times over - what do you find? That you can swim? Well - life is just the same as learning to swim! Do not be afraid of making mistakes, for there is no other way of learning how to live!

I've never tried to block out the memories of the past, even though some are painful. I don't understand people who hide from their past. Everything you live through helps to make you the person you are now.

People dont want their lives fixed. Nobody wants their problems solved. Their dramas. Their distractions. Their stories resolved. Their messes cleaned up. Because what would they have left? Just the big scary unknown.

Thus the sum of things is ever being reviewed, and mortals dependent one upon another. Some nations increase, others diminish, and in a short space the generations of living creatures are changed and like runners pass on the torch of life.

Older and wiser voices can help you find the right path, if you are only willing to listen.

My garden, like my life, seems to me every year to want correction and require alternation.

Life is a series of commas, not periods.

The moment in between what you once were, and who you are now becoming, is where the dance of life really takes place.

You don't have to be the Dalai Lama to tell people that life's about change.

As I grow to understand life less and less, I learn to live it more and more

A person starts to live when he can live outside himself.

Life is pretty simple: You do some stuff. Most fails. Some works. You do more of what works. If it works big, others quickly copy it. Then you do something else. The trick is the doing something else.

I seldom end up where I wanted to go, but almost always end up where I need to be.

I have always looked upon decay as being just as wonderful and rich an expression of life as growth.

Man can alter his life by altering his thinking.

The only real failure in life is one not learned from.

Anyone who stops learning is old, whether at twenty or eighty. Anyone who keeps learning stays young. The greatest thing in life is to keep your mind young.

Life is a series of natural and spontaneous changes. Don't resist them NAME?forward in whatever way they like.

Into each life some rain must fall, some days must be dark and dreary.

Is life so wretched? Isn't it rather your hands which are too small, your vision which is muddled? You are the one who must grow up.

Sooner or later comes a crisis in our affairs, and how we meet it determines our future happiness and success. Since the beginning of time, every form of life has been called upon to meet such crisis.

One way or another, we all have to find what best fosters the flowering of our humanity in this contemporary life, and dedicate ourselves to that.

Do not watch the petals fall from the rose with sadness, know that, like life, things sometimes must fade, before they can bloom again.