Quotes About Growth

To change one's life is not to change outer circumstances: it is to change one's reactions.

And yet we are given a chance as the Side-Octave shews.

The movement of this Work is psychologically inwards, at first. Later it is both inwards and outwards.

I'd like to believe an accumulation of experience has made me a sort of a grown-up person, so I can have judgment and taste and whatever.

I think it is unnatural to think that there is such a thing as a blue-sky, white-clouded happy childhood for anybody. Childhood is a very, very tricky business of surviving it. Because if one thing goes wrong or anything goes wrong, and usually something goes wrong, then you are compromised as a human being. You're going to trip over that for a good part of your life.

I learn something from criticism because when it comes from sources you respect you always examine it and learn.

History and experience tell us that moral progress comes not in comfortable and complacent times, but out of trial and confusion." Gerald R. Ford, thirty-eighth President of the United States of America. Served 1974–1977. The

This is important because we will never help others become fully devoted followers of Christ unless we are fully devoted followers of Christ ourselves, and we will never be fully devoted followers of Christ ourselves until we have mastered the challenge of personal growth in the spiritually toxic twenty-first century.

There is much to be said for failure. It is much more interesting than success.

There is much to be said for failure. It is more interesting than success.

Imagine what could be accomplished if only the human race would shed its humanity.

We need to give each other the space to grow, to be ourselves, to exercise our diversity. We need to give each other space so that we may both give and receive such beautiful things as ideas, openness, dignity, joy, healing, and inclusion.

Sometimes we think we're a little too gifted to show up, yo uknow. But none of us truly is...By avoiding risk we really risk what's most important in life---reaching toward growth, our potential, and a true contribution to a common good.

In the end, it is important to remember that we cannot become what we need to be, by remaining what we are.

We cannot become what we need to be by remaining what we are.

We cannot become what we want to be by remaining what we are.

Only a group of people who share a body of knowledge and continually learn together can stay vital and viable.

Notice I did not say what people can do--what we can do is merely a consequence of what we can be.

Take kindly the counsel of the years, gracefully surrendering the things of youth.

When you love someone you leave every possibility open to them, and in spite of all the memories of the past you are ready to be surprised, again and again surprised, at how different they are, how various, not a finished image.

Time does not change us. It just unfolds us.

There's nothing worse than walking around and talking about your failed relationship, all day, every day, for months on end.

There are some situations in human life, it is true, in which it may seem wiser to wait out bad times. But that is seldom a wise course where your money is concerned. If you let it get stuck in a bad venture, and if the problems last, you can go for years without having the use of that money. It's locked up when, instead, it should be out chasing gains for you in other, livelier ventures.

You may be amazed at how tough you can become with a little practice – and that will be an extra reward of the risk-taker's way of life.