Quotes About Growth

Timeo hominem unius libri. 'I fear the man of one book.' It is attributed to Thomas Aquinas.

You raise your child the best you can. You release the child into the world, like launching a toy sailboat in a pond. Except the world is not a placid pond. More often, it is a raging sea, and life a perfect storm of the unexpected crashing head-on into the unbearable. There is no way to prepare the child for such a world because your own personal crises, traumas and failures are just that, your own. Your child, as you will belatedly learn, is not you.

party. I'm long gone from that scene.

In my playing days, like a lot of jocks, I hung out at places like the Booby Trap and Cheetah and other strip joints. Booze and breasts and wasted nights. Maybe getting older and presumably wiser ain't such a bad deal.

Damn, a mirror can be a lethal weapon, and self-knowledge a poisoned pill. I had been a self-centered and egotistical jock with all the trappings of stunted male adolescence. Back then, I had yet to develop the empathy for others that marks the passage into manhood.

We give ourselves the name Homo sapiens, which means 'wise man,' but of course, we are not born that way, and we don't gain wisdom from books. We learn how to live by living. Vive ut vivas—

How then, in the time that followed, did I become someone I didn't know?

Take these broken wings and learn to fly.

If you want things to be different in your life, you have to make different choices and take different actions.

Education is a place where we ask, 'Did you get the answers right?' as opposed to, 'What did you learn?

A healthy bottom line means that a company is making money. And if a company is making money, then you can make money by investing in its stock.

It would take me the better part of growing up to understand that intimacy, more than sex or even sexual orientation, was the universal battleground, and no easier for straight than gay.

Change me , I whispered, change me .

What love gives you is the courage to face the secrets you've kept from yourself, a reason to open the rest of the doors.

You only grow when you are alone.

we alcoholics, when we are willing, can also learn a great deal by attending Al-Anon meetings.

you have chosen the person most able to help you grow in emotional maturity.

early in sobriety I routinely threw my sobriety at other drivers on the freeway, people who didn't even want it.

Today I see myself as a spiritual being with three distinct human facets: I am what I think; I am what I do; I am what I feel. And, to the degree that I control my thinking, I control my actions. To the degree that I control both my thinking and my actions, I control my feelings. Then, the circle is completed when my feelings affect my thinking which again affects my actions.

On a daily basis, she accepts those facts and stays busy making the best of her own life.

In A.A. we frequently hear action slogans such as: Keep coming back; Action is the magic word; Bring the body and the mind will follow; You can't think yourself into right acting, but you can act your way into right thinking; Sit down, shut up and listen.

In my mind, people and situations "drove me to drink." Once I became sober, I had to learn to handle my emotions so these same people and situations could no longer do this to me.

the development of much more real maturity and balance (which is to say, humility) in our relations with ourselves, with our fellows, and with God.2

for the next major development in A.A.—the development of much more real maturity and balance (which is to say, humility) in our relations with ourselves, with our fellows, and with God.2