Quotes About Growth

I started composting in 1970 by taking my food scraps out behind where I lived and burying them in a hole next to the railroad tracks - and green things started to grow there!

Forgiving someone isn't just about doing good to another. It's also about healing a scar in your own heart.

A BMW can't take you as far as a diploma.

The more you know yourself, the more you forgive yourself.

I wondered if that was how forgiveness budded; not with the fanfare of epiphany, but with pain gathering its things, packing up, and slipping away unannounced in the middle of the night.

Forgiveness does not require us to close our eyes but rather to truly open them.

I learned that true forgiveness includes total self-acceptance. And out of acceptance wounds are healed and happiness is possible again.

Forgiveness is no longer an option but a necessity for healing.

Forgiveness is something that we are often asked to grant and very few of us ever have the roadmap of how to get from the pain that we have experienced to being able to forgive someone.

You're only human. Let's break free of this gravity of judgment And fly high on the wings of forgiveness.

The path of repentance, though hard at times, lifts one ever upward and leads to a perfect forgiveness.

Once you experience forgiveness, your outer world changes.

Keeping score of old scores and scars, getting even and one-upping, always makes you less than you are.

To grant forgiveness to someone who has truly changed is not a way of condoning or forgetting his or her past crimes, but of acknowledging whom he or she has become.

In Lake Wobegon, we don't forget mistakes.

Transition begins in forgiveness.

Forgiveness is almost a selfish act because of its immense benefits to the one who forgives.

It seems that most people need to experience a great deal of suffering before they will relinquish resistance and accept - before they will forgive.

A lack of forgiveness is a waste of time and it's very enriching to forgive and move on but those are things that come with time.

When we make mistakes, we can use the process of NVC mourning and self-forgiveness to show us where we can grow instead of getting caught up in moralistic self-judgments.

Forgiveness is both a decision and a process.

Never repeat old grievances.

The moment an individual can accept and forgive him or herself, even a little, is the moment in which he or she becomes to some degree lovable.

Forgiveness doesn't sit there like a pretty boy in a bar. Forgiveness is the old fat guy you have to haul up a hill.