Quotes About Growth

how life sometimes simply gave you a whole new perspective by waiting around long enough for you to see it.

There is this idea that you either read to escape or you read to find yourself. I don't really see the difference. We find ourselves through the process of escaping.

sometimes the only way to learn is to live.' 'Sounds hard.

To learn is to live

That was the familiar lesson of time. Everything changes and nothing changes. (There is a tree in California, a Great Basin bristlecone pine that was found, after an intensive ring count, to be five thousand and sixty-five years old.)

It might look small and ordinary but it isn't. Because a pawn is never just a pawn. A pawn is a queen-in-waiting. All you need to do is find a way to keep moving forward. One square after another. And you can get to the other side and unlock all kinds of power.

In every human life there is a moment. A crisis. One that says, what I believe is wrong. It happens to everyone, the only difference being how that knowledge changes them.

You don't become a good person by believing you are a bad one.

We don't have to do everything in order to be everything, because we are already infinite. While we are alive we always contain a future of multifarious possibility.

I have bemoaned people who say they feel old, but I now realize it is perfectly possible for anyone to feel old. All they need to do is become a teacher.

Wat tegenwoordig sneller gaat dan vroeger: Berichten. Auto's. Olympische sprinters. Nieuws. Rekensnelheid. Foto's. Geld overboeken. Reizen. Groei van de wereldbevolking. Ontbossing van het Amazonewoud. Navigatie. Technologische vooruitgang. Relaties. Politieke incidenten. Je gedachten.

When I let go of what I am,' said the Chinese philosopher Lao Tzu, 'I become what I might be.

A pawn is a queen-in-waiting. All you need to do is find a way to keep moving forward.

Wat je over pijn leert als je ziek bent, kun je dan ook toepassen op betere tijden. Pijn is een kei van een leermeester.

Change doesn't just happen by focusing on the place that you want to escape. It happens by focusing on the place where you want to reach

S'il y a une issue, une issue qui ne soit pas la mort elle-même, alors elle passe par les mots. Mais plutôt que de quitter totalement l'esprit, les mots nous aident à quitter UN esprit et nous donnent les outils pour en bâtir un autre, similaire mais meilleur, proche de l'ancien mais avec des fondations plus fermes, et souvent avec une meilleure vue.

She could plant a forest inside herself.

The flowers have water.

Pressure makes us, though. You start off as coal and the pressure makes you a diamond.' She didn't correct his knowledge of diamonds. She didn't tell him that while coal and diamonds are both carbon, coal is too impure to be able, under whatever pressure, to become a diamond. According to science, you start off as coal and you end up as coal.

Happy moments can turn into pain, given time

Sometimes, the only way to learn is to live

seemed the more lives she lived, the harder it was to feel at home anywhere.

You are no longer insulated; but I suppose you must touch life in order to spring from it."' 'What's that? A quote?' I ask. 'Fitzgerald.

this collision between one's image of oneself and what one actually is is always very painful and there are two things you can do about it, you can meet the collision head-on and try and become what you really are or you can retreat and try to remain what you thought you were, which is a fantasy, in which you will certainly perish." —James Baldwin, Nobody Knows My Name