Quotes About Growth

Giving others the freedom to be stupid is one of the most important and hardest steps to take in spiritual progress. Conveniently the opportunity to take that step is all around us every day.

Coercion or compulsion never brings about growth. It is freedom that accelerates evolution.

There is no progress toward ultimate freedom without transformation, and this is the key issue in all lives.

Give yourself freedom to try out new things Don't be so set in your ways that you can't grow.

Don't be afraid to admit defeat. Learn from defeat. Do over again more thoroughly, more carefully, and more systematically what you have done badly.

Discipline is not a restriction but an aid to freedom.

Freedom, in childhood, may be the right to be totally self-centered. But freedom in old age is the ability to be the best of the self I have developed during all those years.

Every general increase of freedom is accompanied by some degeneracy, attributable to the same causes as the freedom.

As a consequence of the victories we have registered during our first ten years of freedom, we have laid a firm foundation for the new advances we must and will make during the next decade.

My freedom will be so much the greater and more meaningful, the more narrowly I limit my field of action and the more I surround myself with obstacles.

Honesty is often very hard. The truth is often painful. But the freedom it can bring is worth the trying.

Look at your life as your main career and your divine classroom.

A paradox arises: the only way to meaning in freedom is through boundaries. The only way that boundaries make any sense at all is through freedom.

Perhaps the biggest tragedy of our lives is that freedom is possible, yet we can pass our years trapped in the same old patterns.

...often, stepping outside your comfort zone is not careless irresponsibility, but a necessary act of obedience.

Freedom really means the freedom to make mistakes.

The cross is the place where we find the freedom to accept ourselves without being proud and to challenge ourselves without being crushed.

The freedom to make mistakes is the one and only bonus of getting old.

A limited state with free economic systems is the soil where the liberty tree blossoms.

I keep people around me that have the freedom to challenge my heart and motive.

Every step into freedom contains within it the potential for greater bondage.

Being right is less important to us than the freedom to be wrong.

Freedom is not an ideal, it is not even a protection, if it means nothing more than freedom to stagnate, to live without dreams, to have no greater aim than a second car and another television set.

Humility means freedom. It provides growth and takes you out of the cycle of change that you are currently in, which is stagnation.