Quotes About Growth

Wir müssen das Leben darum bitten, uns vegetieren zu lassen, denn nur so können wir Blüten treiben.

For the trunk of individuality to grow, one must prevent freedom from making the trunk spread out into branches.

It never again mattered to me where I lived after I saw the spacious, dilapidated homes pass away and the wide open, deserted fields of my infancy covered with industrial and human filth.

The failure of progress has not consisted in the non-fulfillment but in the fulfillment of its promises.

Yoga is about opening ourselves to improvement and new ideas, rather than remaining stuck in the closed loops of deep subconscious patterns.

Man arrives as a novice at each age of his life.

Ignorance is always ready to admire itself. Procure yourself critical friends.

Traveling outgrows its motives. It soon proves sufficient in itself. You think you are making a trip, but soon it is making you - or unmaking you.

Ce n'est jamais la vie qui décline, mais seulement l'idée qu'on parvient à s'en faire.

A man begins every stage of his life as a novice.

There is no reason to sell a rising stock

The truth was that as my pocket had strengthened, my head had weakened.

When you want to be well-liked in the world, you have to let a lot of people teach you things that you know and they don't.

Ce que j'ai appris, je l'ai oublié ; ce que je sais, je l'ai inventé.

I was fifteen and with every ounce of my strength I was leaning into my thoughts to make them slant reality toward the light.

I'm a person that carries everything that happened to me in my past, with me into the future. I refuse to let it make me bitter. I still completely believe in love and I remain open to anything that will happen to me.

I was walking around legally blind. Now I have 20-20 vision. I can't believe I spent so many years blurry, but I think that coincides with how I was feeling. Now I notice if people are watching me, but I also smile right back if someone waves, which helps.

I want to be tested beyond my comfort zone. I don't want to be safe if it's more interesting to be dangerous.

Breathe and don't try to be perfect.

She was gone, and all that was left was the space you'd grown around her, like a tree that grows around a fence. For a long time, it remained hollow. Years, maybe. And when at last it was filled again, you knew that the new love you felt for a woman would have been impossible without Alma. If it weren't for her, there would never have been an empty space, or the need to fill it.

We met each other when we were young, before we knew enough about disappointment, and once we did we found we reminded each other of it.

That as a human being I'm not necessarily static, but... evolving. That I'm supposed to grow and develop, just like the physical world, the planet, the universe.

Breaking some respected boundaries means a torrent of new life.

She, too, could become someone else. Eventually. Or she'd told herself all these years.