Quotes About Growth

Ultimately, discipling involves living out the whole Christian life before others.

As great poets do, he found a way to transmute the personal wound into something larger.

The life of the poem might be extended in ways you cannot know, and continue in a world so far from yours as to be nearly unimaginable. The circle that is the outer edge of your life extends, and goes on extending.

Remember our definition of a winning attitude: a positive expectation of your efforts with an acceptance that whatever results you get are a perfect reflection of your level of development and what you need to learn to do better.

So if you are afraid of being wrong or losing money, it means you will never learn enough to compensate for the negative effects these fears will have on your ability to be objective and your ability to act without hesitation.

I used to believe everything I read, but now I'm steppin' out.

Strength is not created by adversity; it is merely awakened by it.

In later life most good things happen very slowly; only bad things tend to happen fast.

My students, alas, usually lack the confidence to acknowledge what would be their most precious asset for learning: their ignorance.

Real reading is reincarnation. There is no other way to put it. It is being born again into a higher form of consciousness than we ourselves possess.

Reading is life's grand second chance.

The reader learns the language of herself; she is humanly enhanced, enlarging the previously constricting circle that made up the border of what she's been... her consciousness has been expanded.

It helps us to create and re-create ourselves, often against harsh odds. So I will be talking here about the crafting of souls.

Awakening does not mean a change in difficulty, it means a change in how those difficulties are met.

The spiritual path means making a path rather than following one.

To free desire from the tendency to cling, we have to be willing to stumble over ourselves.

In order to change conditions outside ourselves, whether they concern the environment or relations with others, we must first change within ourselves.

In building a path through the self to the far shore of awareness, we have to carefully pick our way through our own wilderness. If we can put our minds into a place of surrender, we will have an easier time feeling the contours of the land. We do not have to break our way through as much as we have to find our way around the major obstacles. We do not have to cure every neurosis, we just have to learn how not to be caught by them.

Follow the cream of the crop in your area of online expertise and learn from them. Network with them.

A traveller learns more than a passenger.

Will, it makes me proud to say that you might just be on the verge of not being a complete idiot.

24 YOU CAN'T CHANGE ANYTHING IF YOU CAN'T CHANGE YOUR MIND.

I have no way to defend my borders but to expand them,

If you aim to be the best then it's essential to evolve constantly, learn from past mistakes, look for new opportunities and have the flexibility to implement improved processes and solutions along the way.