Quotes About Growth

Knowing something intellectually is very different from doing something consistently, mastering it, and benefiting from it.

Envy is often a clue that there is something latent in you that needs to be expressed.

You can scare yourself into stuckness by assuming you have to make radical life changes in order to make progress. You don't. Real change is practically invisible as it's happening. No trumpets sound. A marching band will not play at your door. Meaningful progress doesn't feel particularly exciting. Most days, it feels like work. You show up, grind it out (sometimes joyfully, sometimes not), and repeat.

There are two types of pain you will go through in life: the pain of discipline and the pain of regret. Discipline weighs ounces, while regret weighs tons. Jim Rohn

you'll never grow beyond your current circumstances if you're closed off to everything except what you currently know.

End of year #motivationmonday: Your past does NOT equal your potential.

This isn't always possible, but train yourself to move toward discomfort. Put yourself in situations that feel scary and intimidating—that's where the figureoutable magic is!

How can this work me? How can this work for me?

Nothing in life is to be feared, it is only to be understood. Now is the time to understand more, so that we may fear less. Attributed to Marie Curie

You never get stronger if you only do easy things. I didn't want fear to calcify in my bones. I refuse to energetically shrink down into a smaller, less capable me. Just because I made a mistake and messed up didn't mean I was going to give up.

Starting small and sucky beats staying stucky.

Our beliefs either propel us to or prevent us from living to our fullest potential. Our beliefs determine whether we fail or succeed, and how we define success in the first place.

Everyone is always doing the best they can. Blame and resentment have no place here. But it's important to recognize that, whether positive or negative, our environment is one of the most significant sources of our current beliefs.

Suffering is just part of the great tapestry of life.

What happened in our house taught my brothers how to leave, how to walk down a sidewalk without looking back.

the bridge appears when you walk across it—that

As passion's object, dig with your ampersand: be cold & hot. The receptive earth will come to transform the root-end that your planting hand cut & abandoned, to new chrysanthemum. Heartfelt thought, drop your guard, keep clear, be slow; double your careful opposites & grow.

One can acquire everything in solitude, except character.

In youth we learn; in age we understand.

los conflictos son útiles porque aportan fluidez a un mundo demasiado estático.

The fourth function is always life's great problem:

A nÅ' jobban benn él az élet folyásában, olyannak veszi az életet, amilyen.

The philosophical system with which we try to interpret contents of the unconscious is open to still more, and that is the way in which an interpretation will not have a destructive effect. One should keep to what is possible and infer at the same time that there is a lot more to it so that there is room for growth.

Blame keeps us stuck in the past. Responsibility paves the path for a better future.