Quotes About Growth

Usually, you'll see, having more comes from starting with less.

Maybe it's not just about finding the perfect friend, partner, or tribe, but finding the perfection in those you've already found.

You are ultimately destined to discover your power and accept its responsibilities,

Young souls use pain to learn how things are. Mature souls use pain to learn how else things might be. And old souls, , use pain to learn how else they might be.

sometimes in life you must take one step back to take many more forward.

You are not alive to be tested, judged, and sentenced. You're alive to live and learn, in unending spirals of love.

When desirous of a life change, or any kind of a change, it's wiser to start from a place of, "I am who I am today, where I am today, because this was my choice and it has served me well. However, it no longer serves me. My choices have changed, and I give thanks for the amazing transformational energies that now sweep through my amazing life.

By accepting or even welcoming your challenges, you create opportunities for their gifts to be revealed.

This is God's trajectory within time and space: eternal expansion.

Let your guilt teach you, not punish you. And let the guilt of others do the same for them, no matter how grave their misunderstandings.

accepting personal responsibility for everything you experience is critical to ultimately

accepting personal responsibility for everything you experience is critical to ultimately discovering your power,

All deliberate change comes first from denying the logic that earlier gave you comfort.

Thriving is the goal for every form and expression of life.

Don't we already intuitively accept that every dark cloud has a silver lining? And that when you see no such lining, perhaps it's because you have more to learn, not because it isn't there?

Whosoever may torment you, harass you, confound you, or upset you is a teacher. Not because they're wise, but because you seek to become so.

There's nothing wrong with your life because sometimes you feel lost or incomplete; this means you're "normal," growing, and exactly where you "should be" and all is well. You're not handicapped by your challenges and desires but blessed by them, even if they include missing a dearly beloved who was "ready" before you … you are blessed especially when you miss such a person, for the love you knew and still know.

Come on. Would loving parents ever give their child a book to read that didn't have a happy ending? No. But they might well advise, "Don't stop reading during the scary parts!" And neither would a "greater you" give yourself the gift of time and space if it wouldn't be all good in the long run, no matter how things may appear midway. So good that no matter what might happen, it would be worth every bump and turn along the way.

You signed up for the intensive program: harder in the beginning, more fun thereafter.

Tame the jungles and you will find a world eager to fill your every cup, coffer, and bathtub.

Without words like blame, victim, and fault, I do believe about 50% of the unhappiness in the world would be cured.

Seek not to fix or change others, especially when they've hurt you. Neither should you find excuses for their behavior or "learn to love them"—however good a sound bite the latter makes. What will serve you most is to create as much space as possible within which to heal, be distracted, and fill your life with new friends, ideas, and adventures.

The process of opening your mind, while expecting answers, coupled with taking action, knocking on doors and turning over stones, makes you a lightning rod for breakthroughs.

your life is a gigantic work in progress