Quotes About Growth

Stop being who you were and become who you are.

There is only one way to learn It's through action.

Thats because, like everyone else on the planet, you believed that time would teach you to grow closer to God. But time doesnt teach; it merely brings us a sense of weariness and of growing older.

Pitiful is the person who is afraid of taking risks. Perhaps this person will never be disappointed or disillusioned; perhaps she won't suffer the way people do when they have a dream to follow. But when the person looks back-she will hear her heart.

Life has been very hard on me, but, at the same time, it has taught me a great deal.

Life takes us by surprise and orders us to move toward the unknown even when we don't want to and when we think we don't need to.

You discover that your old I, along with everything you ever learned, is absolutely no use at all in the face of those new challenges, and you begin to realize that buried deep in your unconscious mind there is someone much more interesting and adventurous and more open to the world and to new experiences.

Sometimes, we are so attached to our way of life that we turn down wonderful opportunities simply because don't know what to do with it.

You have to take risks. We will only understand the miracle of life fully when we allow the unexpected to happen.

Everything tells me that I am about to make a wrong decision, but making mistakes is just part of life. What does the world want of me? Does it want me to take no risks, to go back to where I came from because I didn't have the courage to say "yes" to life?

A mistake repeated more than once is a decision.

When we love, we always strive to become better than we are. When we strive to become better than we are, everything around us becomes better too.

Everything tells me that I am about to make a wrong decision, but making mistakes is just part of life. What does the world want of me? Does it want me to take no risks, to go back to where I came from because I didn't have the courage to say "yes" to life?

There are moments when troubles enter our lives and we can do nothing to avoid them. But they are there for a reason. Only when we have overcome them will we understand why they were there.

The more we become able to become a child again, to keep ourselves childlike, the more we can understand that because we love the world and we are open to understanding, to comprehension, that when we kill the child in us, we are no longer.

Whoever teaches learns in the act of teaching, and whoever learns teaches in the act of learning.

It's in making decisions that we learn to decide.

Conversion to the people requires a profound rebirth. Those who undergo it must take on a new form of existence; they can no longer remain as they were.

what can we do now in order to be able to do tomorrow what we are unable to do today?

Ninguém nasce feito. Vamos nos fazendo aos poucos na prática social de que tornamos parte

Through dialogue, the teacher-of-the-students and the students-of-the-teacher cease to exist and a new term emerges: teacher-student with students-teachers. The teacher is no longer merely the-one-who-teaches, but one who is himself taught in dialogue with the students, who in turn while being taught also teach. They become jointly responsible for a process in which all grow.

It is essential not to confuse modernization with development.

O diálogo é o encontro dos homens para Ser Mais

On the other hand, you know that it's possible to do more. You cannot accept being immobilized because you think that you've finished. You experience the very nature of being a human being-that is, unfinished, constantly in search.