Quotes About Growth

I gave my life to become the person I am right now. Was it worth it?

You know, by the time you reach my age, you've made plenty of mistakes if you've lived your life properly.

Everything in life that we really accept undergoes a change. So suffering must become Love. That is the mystery.

When you love someone so deeply they become your life, it's easy to succumb overwhelming fears inside. Blindly I imagined I could keep you under a glass. Now I understand to hold you I must open my hand and watch you rise.

Into each life some rain must fall.

A happy life is one spent in learning, earning, and yearning.

Bad things are always going to happen in life. People will hurt you. But you can't use that as an excuse to fail or to hurt someone back. You'll only hurt yourself.

Never become so much of an expert that you stop gaining expertise. View life as a continuous learning experience.

Do your best every day and your life will gradually expand into satisfying fullness.

Guard well your spare moments. They are like uncut diamonds. Discard them and their value will never be known. Improve them and they will become the brightest gems in a useful life.

Mistakes are a fact of life. It is the response to the error that counts.

Without pain, there would be no suffering, without suffering we would never learn from our mistakes. To make it right, pain and suffering is the key to all windows, without it, there is no way of life.

Whenever you make a mistake or get knocked down by life, don't look back at it too long. Mistakes are life's way of teaching you. Your capacity for occasional blunders is inseparable from your capacity to reach your goals. No one wins them all, and your failures, when they happen, are just part of your growth. Shake off your blunders. How will you know your limits without an occasional failure? Never quit. Your turn will come.

Listen to the Exhortation of the Dawn! Look to this Day! For it is Life, the very Life of Life. In its brief course lie all the Verities and Realities of your Existence. The Bliss of Growth, The Glory of Action, The Splendor of Beauty; For Yesterday is but a Dream, And To-morrow is only a Vision; But To-day well lived makes Every Yesterday a Dream of Happiness, And every Tomorrow a Vision of Hope. Look well therefore to this Day! Such is the Salutation of the Dawn!

There are no regrets in life, just lessons.

This secret spoke Life herself unto me: Behold, said she, I am that which must ever surpass itself.

Books can be dangerous. The best ones should be labeled This could change your life.

Sometimes, struggles are exactly what we need in our life. If we were to go through our life without any obstacles, we would be crippled. We would not be as strong as what we could have been. Give every opportunity a chance, leave no room for regrets.

It is only when you despair of all ordinary means, it is only when you convince it that it must help you or you perish, that the seed of life in you bestirs itself to provide a new resource.

As we sail thru life, don't avoid rough waters, sail on because calm waters won't make a skillful sailor.

Any ordeal that you can survive as a human being is an improvement in your character, and usually an improvement in your life.

March on. Do not tarry. To go forward is to move toward perfection. March on, and fear not the thorns, or the sharp stones on life's path.

The friends who grew up with you deserve a special respect- the ones who stuck by you shoulder to shoulder, in a time when nothing was certain, all life lay ahead, and every road led home.

Creativity - like human life itself - begins in darkness.