Quotes About Growth

We are not what happened to us, we are what we wish to become.

Getting over a painful experience is much like crossing monkey bars. You have to let go at some point in order to move forward.

It is impossible for a man to learn what he thinks he already knows.

You don't think your way into a new kind of living. You live your way into a new kind of thinking.

Pay any price to stay in the presence of extraordinary people.

One must still have chaos in oneself to be able to give birth to a dancing star.

If the only thing people learned was not to be afraid of their experience, that alone would change the world.

Our arms start from the back because they were once wings.

"Thinking about thinking" has to be a principle ingredient of any empowering practice of education.

When a great ship is in harbor and moored, it is safe, there can be no doubt. But that is not what great ships are built for.

Climb the mountain not to plant your flag, but to embrace the challenge, enjoy the air and behold the view. Climb it so you can see the world, not so the world can see you.

The whole world opened to me when I learned to read.

Where flowers bloom so does hope.

Nurture your mind with great thoughts, for you will never go any higher than you think.

Treat a child as though he already is the person he's capable of becoming.

In God's economy, nothing is wasted. Through failure, we learn a lesson in humility which is probably needed, painful though it is.

I must be willing to give up what I am in order to become what I will be.

To plant a garden is to believe in tomorrow.

Let everything happen to you Beauty and terror Just keep going No feeling is final

Storms make trees take deeper roots.

Above all, don't fear difficult moments. The best comes from them

To improve is to change; to be perfect is to change often.

We find by losing. We hold fast by letting go. We become something new by ceasing to be something old.

A mistake is only an error, it becomes a mistake when you fail to correct it