Quotes About Growth

Without hope, there's no growth. Without growth, there is no life.

Difficult personalities are a mirror for the places where we get stuck in judgment, fear, and confusion.

In the beginning we are all floating downstream. At some point we become aware that the currents are dragging us down and that we are no longer satisfied with the status quo of human

In the beginning we are all floating downstream. At some point we become aware that the currents are dragging us down and that we are no longer satisfied with the status quo of human existence.

As we walk the path of Refuge Recovery, we gradually uncover a loving heart.

Jack Canfield taught me two of the most brilliant questions I've ever seen in human relations. 'On a scale of 1 to 10, how would you rate our relationship? What can I do to make it a 10?

Practice does not make perfect; practice makes progress. The word progress comes from the Latin progredi, which means 'to step forward.' Life is not about being perfect; it's about having the courage to move forward, one step at a time.

Unlimited economic growth has the marvelous quality of stilling discontent while maintaining privilege, a fact that has not gone unnoticed among liberal economists.

When we continue to do things for our children that they could do for themselves, we are unintentionally robbing them of opportunities to become self-reliant and confident. Doing for our children what they can do for themselves also sends them a negative message either that we think they can't do it, or that they don't have to do it.

What is effective for increasing motivation and the willingness to take on challenges is focusing praise on the child's effort, on what the child has done, not on an ability he can't control (such as intelligence) or on the final result (which he may not easily be able to replicate).

John Locke said that it is one thing to show a man that he is in an error, and another to put him in possession of truth. It is easy to point out people's faults. They are always so obvious. But this will never change the person. Better to put the truth in their hands. By the power of truth a life will change.

too much debt is not a permanent state of being for those willing to invest in themselves and change their circumstances.

the road that leads to blessing sometimes—often—goes through valleys and dark places.

Enjoying success requires the ability to adapt. Only by being open to change will you have a true opportunity to get the most from your talent.

And I'm a believer that you take a negative and turn it into a positive, and as it turned out, it was one of the best things that ever happened to me. And so I do appreciate the Ranger staff and the Ranger organization for giving me that opportunity.

Reading makes me feel I've accomplished something, learned something, become a better person. ... Reading is bliss.

When you find somebody you love, all the way through, and she loves you—even with your weaknesses, your flaws, everything starts to click into place. And if you can talk to her, and she listens, if she makes you laugh, and makes you think, makes you want, makes you see who you really are, and who you are is better, just better with her, you'd be crazy not to want to spend the rest of your life with her. (Carter Maguire)

When we grow up, we lose the talent for loving without restrictions.

My first two records are so simply constructed. The reason isn't because I wanted to make simple music. It's because I don't really have the chops.

I just want to keep making music, recording and trying different things. I don't want to do the same thing all the time.

as the old proverb said, The falling out of faithful friends is the renewal of love.

Spring. The green dance, from the smallest roadside plant in a vertical upsurge, to trees bursting in leaf, swaying to morning skies woven in rainbows of returning birds, from the mystical white transformation of ice and snow in bays to the miracle and movement of water. I am stillness, I am dance; I am death, I am life. Know this for what you are. Everything moves.

Love can only take place where a relationship is free from idolatry and a person recognizes God as the source of everything. The moment we look to someone to be the source of supplying our happiness or comfort, we put them in the place of God. At that point, loving that person with the love of God becomes an impossibility. Your theological foundation is crucial to your growth in love. What you believe about God dictates your perspective and attitudes toward people and circumstances in life.

I do know this. It's the things we run from that hurt us the most." –Brad Sturdevant