Quotes About Growth

That sounded a lot more appetizing than my aging cynicism, complete lack of interest in others, and lifetime of enthusiastic immersion in a culture that encourages you to look out for number one. Clearly, my best self was miles down the road.

Most countries are static, all they need to do is keep having babies. But America's like this big old clanking smoking machine that just lumbers across the landscape scooping up and eating everything in sight.

And we're seeing a higher level of consciousness and many more opportunities for people to challenge their present ways of thinking and move into a grander and larger experience of who they really are.

The deepest secret is that life is not a process of discovery, but a process of creation. You are not discovering yourself, but creating yourself anew. Seek therefore, not to find out Who You Are, but seek to determine Who You Want to Be.

glorify who you are today, do not condemn who you were yesterday and dream of who you can be tomorrow...

To travel a circle is to journey over the same ground time and time again. To travel a circle wisely is to journey over the same ground for the first time. In this way, the ordinary becomes extraordinary, and the circle, a path to where you wish to be. And when you notice at last that the path has circled back into itself, you realize that where you wish to be is where you have already been ... and always were.

What you resist, persists

The deepest secret is that life is not a process of discovery, but a process of creation. You are not discovering yourself, but creating yourself anew. Seek, therefore, not to find out Who You Are, seek to determine Who You Want to Be.

Sooner or later you've heard all your best friends have to say. Then comes the tolerance of real love. The same holds true for music.

The next five decades would each show a growth of the enslaved population of never less than 24 percent—

Suddenly, it seemed to me an eternity since I had last seen Mam, and I cried. "What is wrong with the boy?" the monk asked. "It is his first day out," Dad fumbled. "Cheer up," the monk said to me. "You are becoming a man." "I am hungry," I told him. "That is one way of becoming a man," he concluded.

I've discovered that if you want to reach your true potential, it's much more effective to ignite a new passion for life than to dwell on past problems.

Replace "This project is so big and important" with "I can take one small step.

Whenever you begin to feel overwhelmed by the large, grand project that looms before you, remind yourself, "I can take one small step. One small step; one rough, rough draft; one imperfect sketch; one small hello. That's all I need to do now.

wild patience has taken me this far

People who find dating confusing and bewildering almost always lack familiarity with themselves.

Attendance on Sundays does not transform lives; Jesus within their hearts is what changes people.

If we cannot multiply churches, we will never see a movement. If we cannot multiply leaders we will never multiply churches. If we cannot multiply disciples, we will never multiply leaders. The way to see a true church multiplication movement is to multiply healthy disciples, then leaders, then churches, and finally movements-in that order.

Every church throughout history whose members were willing to surrender their lives for the sake of Christ witnessed dramatic and spontaneous growth.

The journey to significance starts with the mere willingness to surrender the status quo and take the first step of faith into the adventure.

For me, I am driven by two main philosophies: know more today about the world than I knew yesterday and lessen the suffering of others. You'd be surprised how far that gets you.

There is no greater education than one that is self-driven.

For me, I am driven by two main philosophies: know more today about the world than I knew yesterday and lessen the suffering of others. You'd be surprised how far that gets you.

We spend the first year of a child's life teaching it to walk and talk and the rest of its life to shut up and sit down. There's something wrong there.