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Quotes About Growth

Most people still don't think of qualities like happiness as being a skill, that can be enhanced through training.
~ Richard Davidson
The worst thing you can do is to try to cling to something that's gone, or to recreate it.
~ Johnette Napolitano
Both hurting and happiness make me feel more alive, but as I get older it seems that hurting's the low hanging fruit. So I pick it.
~ Ze Frank
We learn our lessons; we get hurt; we want revenge. Then we realize that actually, happiness and forgiving people is the best revenge.
~ Madonna Ciccone
I've found that when the market's going down and you buy funds wisely, at some point in the future you will be happy. You won't get there by reading 'Now is the time to buy.'
~ Peter Lynch
Fulfill your potential. That's the way to happiness.
~ Agnes Martin
You have to participate relentlessly in the manifestation of your own blessings.
~ Elizabeth Gilbert
Here below is not the land of happiness: I know it now; it is only the land of toil, and every joy which comes to us is only to strengthen us for some greater labor that is to succeed.
~ Johann Gottlieb Fichte
Happiness is not at the top of the mountain, but in how to climb.
~ Confucius
The biggest happiness is when at the end of the year you feel better than at the beginning
~ Henry David Thoreau
Perhaps the most important word in success and happiness is the word,"ask."
~ Brian Tracy
I have lived to know that the secret of happiness is never to allow your energies to stagnate.
~ Adam Clarke
Happiness involves engagement in activities that promote one's highest potentials.
~ Aristotle
Happiness is not to be found in knowledge, but in the acquisition of knowledge
~ Edgar Allan Poe
Recognizing that you are not where you want to be is a starting point to begin changing your life.
~ Deborah Day
I believe that a worthwhile life is defined by a kind of spiritual journey and a sense of obligation.
~ Hillary Rodham Clinton
I think my capacity to change has given me tremendous happiness, because who I am today I am completely content to be.
~ Jamie Lee Curtis
Anything that's expanding the mind and heart is happiness. But it's not a goal.
~ Richard Gere
People need hard times and oppression to develop psychic muscles.
~ Emily Dickinson
And when our baby stirs and struggles to be born it compels humility: what we began is now its own.
~ Anne Ridler
What matters most is that we learn from living.
~ Doris Lessing
Happiness is dealing with setbacks with more grace, understanding and acceptance
~ Arianna Huffington
Every day there is only one thing to learn: how to be honestly happy.
~ Sri Chinmoy
Early happiness handicaps people. I do not regret having been profoundly unhappy.
~ Coco Chanel