Quotes About Growth

I was vehemently against acquisitions. Now let's buy everything in sight. Well, that's a slight exaggeration. We are a little more strategic than that. But everything was on sale.

Recovery challenges everything we 'knew to be true'.

Whatever I have given, I have gained.

We are always pregnant with a truer version of ourselves.

If an unexpected temptation comes, don't blame the one through whom it came, but seek out the reason. Thus you will find correction for your soul.

We've come a long way, we've come a long way and we never even left L.A.

One poem or story doesn't matter one way or the other. It's the process of writing and life that matters.

A master blesses calamity, for the master knows that from the seeds of disaster (and all experience) comes the growth of self.

What you give, you become.

And every Master has likewise had the same message: What I am, you are. What I can do, you can do. These things, and more, shall you also do.

Know and understand that there will be challenges and difficult times. Don't try to avoid them. Welcome them. Gratefully.

There is perfection in the process-and all life arises out of choice.

Even those truths that are painful will ultimately increase my wisdom, undergird my strength, make possible my art.

I never knew what basketball was. I started playing on the playground. People used to laugh at me and joke at me because I was so tall and I didn't know the game and couldn't play it.

If we learned all we needed to know in kindergarten, it was promptly drummed out of us in first grade.

Mighty rivers can easily be leaped at their source.

I consider this world to be like a school and our lives to be the classrooms.

If it never rained, nothing would grow.

Being alive is being aware, being able to be touched and moved and changed, being able to respond rather than to react, being able to see and hear.

I don't think there's such a thing as a bad emotion. The only bad emotion is a stuck emotion.

I don't want to stay folded anywhere, because where I am folded, there I am a lie.

Nobody has the power to take two steps together; you can take only one step at a time.

Our disasters have been some of the best things that ever happened to us. And what we swore were blessings have been some of the worst.

Take a chance - it's the best way to test yourself, have fund and push boundaries.