Quotes About Growth

Ne scap? mereu câte ceva în via??, de aceea trebuie s? ne na?tem mereu.

Înainte, m? gândeam aproape tot timpul la so?ia mea. Acum, cu cât trec zilele, so?ia se întunec? parc? în minte ?i mama se lumineaz?. Ca la fântânile cu dou? g?le?i. Una se scoboar?, alta se înal??. Acum nu se înal?? decât mama.

It's tough not to keep thinking of the past, but you have to look ahead. Because the stuff in front of you is where you can make a difference and help the most.

I always question artists who are successful in whatever they do—I think what that means is that they're repeating themselves and not taking enough risks.

From a very early time, I understood that I only learn from things I don't like. If you do things you like, you just do the same shit. You always fall in love with the wrong guy. Because there's no change. It's so easy to do things you like. But then, the thing is, when you're afraid of something, face it, go for it. You become a better human being.

When I think about my life, the early works, you know, always you learn as a young artist to have a style you can follow, a certain line. But I didn't do that. I had this enormous urge to make different works. And some of them, I didn't see any kind of connection. I didn't know where I'm going. But now, looking 45 years back, everything had perfect sense. It's like a straight line.

I've never really had a studio. A studio makes you lazy and comfortable, and you repeat yourself.

If we go for the easy way, then we never change.

When you are a young artist, you have no idea what you are doing. Every artist who says he knows, it is a lie.

The more you fail, the more you understand what caused the failure, and you can make the next piece great.

That's what Aisha and I are doing. We're planting a garden with our words. Our future. Everything careful and chosen well so the shoots come up strong and straight.

for the first time I start to actually imagine me sitting on concrete steps like this, or in a class reading lots of fat books and saying what I think.

she eloquently explains how forgiveness could only surface after a whole sequence of emotional responses to trauma that began with the simple act of having compassion for her own pain.

There are books so alive that you're always afraid that while you weren't reading, the book has gone and changed, has shifted like a river; while you went on living, it went on living too, and like a river moved on and moved away. No one has stepped twice into the same river. But did anyone ever step twice into the same book?

Siempre es más fácil destruir que construir. Mete más ruido en el bosque un árbol que cae que cien que están creciendo "; pag 25.

Si soy incapaz de trascender mi pasado, es difícil que pueda inventar un futuro que no sea directamente predecible desde el pasado

Un momento de reflexión, un sencillo descubrimiento pueden mover la trayectoria de nuestra vida unos humildes grados y, sin embargo, con el tiempo esta mínima desviación es capaz de conducirnos a un nuevo y apasionante destino.

Rechazar ciertas pruebas porque son difíciles es también rechazarnos a nosotros mismos, aunque no seamos conscientes de ello. No necesitamos reducir el tamaño de la prueba, sino aumentar nuestra fortaleza frente a ella.

Cuando recuerdes los errores del pasado, sin pretender con ello justificarlos, es importante que tengas presente que ciertas decisiones que tuvieron consecuencias negativas las tomaste con el nivel de conciencia que entonces tenías y no con el que tienes ahora.

Grandes barbaridades hemos hecho las personas en nuestro intento de adaptar la realidad a las medidas de nuestro recipiente mental.

El neurólogo canadiense Donald Hebb hablaba de que «neuronas que disparan a la vez, acaban conectándose».

No jugamos a ganar, simplemente jugamos a no perder, y es esta mentalidad la que de verdad crea el juego. Nos obsesionamos en defender la idea de lo que somos en lugar de arriesgarnos a descubrir la imagen de aquello que podríamos llegar a ser.

La búsqueda de uno mismo, de quien se es en realidad, es siempre un acto de heroicidad que implica aprender a superarse a sí mismo una y otra vez, para poco a poco ir expandiendo los límites de la propia identidad.

Cuando usted reaccione de una manera que no le guste, no se juzgue ni se critique duramente, porque eso no le llevará a cambiar.