Quotes About Growth

hay una manera de salir del bosque oscuro, pero la mala noticia es que el camino atraviesa el infierno. Y

the self does not grow as a consequence of pleasurable experiences. Complexity requires investing psychic energy in goals that are new, that are relatively challenging.

People who learn to enjoy their work, who do not waste their free time, end up feeling that their lives as a whole have become much more worthwhile. "The future," wrote C. K. Brightbill, "will belong not only to the educated man, but to the man who is educated to use his leisure wisely.

These periods of struggling to overcome challenges are what people find to be the most enjoyable times of their lives (chapter 3).

Learning to use time alone, instead of escaping from it, is especially important in our early years. Teenagers who can't bear solitude disqualify themselves from later carrying out adult tasks that require serious mental preparation.

Almost every situation we encounter in life presents possibilities for growth.

means that we must constantly reevaluate what we do, lest habits and past wisdom blind us to new possibilities.

Many people give up on learning after they leave school because thirteen or twenty years of extrinsically motivated education is still a source of unpleasant memories.

mientras que la humanidad ha incrementado colectivamente sus poderes materiales cientos de veces, no ha avanzado mucho en términos de mejorar el contenido de su experiencia.

Ideally, the end of extrinsically applied education should be the start of an education that is motivated intrinsically.

Without challenge, life had no meaning.

The best moments usually occur when a person's body or mind is stretched to its limits in a voluntary effort to accomplish something difficult and worthwhile. Optimal experience is thus something that we make happen.

To improve life one must improve the quality of experience.

Human beings are the only creatures who are allowed to fail. If an ant fails, it's dead. But we're allowed to learn from our mistakes and from our failures.

If one does not use the mind to its fullest, then good feelings fulfill just a fraction of the potential we possess.

for real growth, it is necessary to find people whose opinions are interesting and whose conversation is stimulating. A more difficult, but in the long run even more useful, skill to acquire is the ability to tolerate solitude, and to even enjoy it.

Most enjoyable activities are not natural; they demand an effort that initially one is reluctant to make. But once the interaction starts to provide feedback to the person's skills, it usually begins to be intrinsically rewarding.

It is when we act freely, for the sake of the action itself rather than for ulterior motives, that we learn to become more than what we were.

the self expands through acts of self forgetfulness.

It is when we act freely, for the sake of the action itself rather than for ulterior motives, that we learn to become more than what we were. When we choose a goal and invest ourselves in it to the limits of concentration, whatever we do will be enjoyable. And once we have tasted this joy, we will redouble our efforts to taste it again. This is the way the self grows.

it's a wise parent who allows her children to give up the things of childhood in their own time.

I was fired at the pinnacle of my career, on my 39th birthday. And in the year that followed, I learned that there are many psychological phases of being 'let go.'

Children begin by loving their parents; as they grow older they judge them; sometimes they forgive them. —OSCAR WILDE

Up is not an easy direction. It defies gravity, both cultural and magnetic.