Quotes About Growth

Man maintains his balance, poise, and sense of security only as he is moving forward.

No man ever became great or good except through many and great mistakes. —William E. Gladstone

A bicycle maintains its poise and equilibrium only so long as it is going forward towards something. You have a good bicycle. Your trouble is you are trying to maintain your balance sitting still, with no place to go.

So remember you make mistakes. Mistakes don't make you—anything.

thought to change their thinking of the "self" which was to accomplish these things.

Sentimentele sunt pamantul in care creste gandurile si ideile.

The greatest mistake a man can make is to be afraid of making one. —Elbert Hubbard

The self-image can be changed.

Do not allow yourself to become discouraged if nothing seems to happen when you set about practicing the various techniques outlined in this book for changing your self-image.

The discovery of the real self can rescue a crumbling marriage, recreate a faltering career, and transform victims of "personality failure." On another plane, discovering your real self means the difference between freedom and the compulsions of conformity.

Positive thinking" cannot be used effectively as a patch or a crutch to the same old self-image.

It doesn't matter how many times you have failed in the past. What matters is the successful attempt, which should be remembered, reinforced, and dwelt upon.

The self-image is the key to human personality and human behavior. Change the self-image and you change the personality and the behavior.

Today I am more convinced than ever that what each of us really wants, deep down, is more life. Happiness, success, peace of mind

Just because the mental imagery isn't clear when you begin does not mean it won't get clearer, more vivid, more detailed, and more powerful each time you practice.

Psycho-Cybernetics does not say that man is a machine. Rather, it says that man has a machine that he uses.

It is not the child who is taught about love but the child who has experienced love that grows into a healthy, happy, well-adjusted adult.

Our present state of self-confidence and poise is the result of what we have experienced rather than what we have learned intellectually.

a person has to start in the present to acquire some maturity so that the future may be better than the past. The present and the future depend on learning new habits and new ways of looking at old problems

Get a New Mental Picture of Yourself

each of us really wants, deep down, is more life. Happiness, success, peace of mind, or whatever your own conception of supreme good may be, is experienced in its essence as more life.

YOUR CASE HISTORY List here an experience from your past that is explained by the principles given in this chapter:

Gardening gives one back a sense of proportion about everything — except itself.

Help us to be ever faithful gardeners of the spirit, who know that without darkness nothing comes to birth, and without light nothing flowers.