Quotes About Growth

It is all right to be simply the way you have to be, among contradictory ridges in some crescendo of knowing.

What you fear will not go away; it will take you into yourself and bless you and keep you. That's the world, and we all live there.

I have woven a parachute out of everything broken.

I embrace emerging experience. I participate in discovery. I am a butterfly. I am not a butterfly collector. I want the experience of the butterfly.

He was able to love them again, but he loved them now in a wiser way, knowing their weakness.

I wish I were a rock,' he said, and he became a rock.

The mark of an immature man is that he wants to die nobly for a cause, while the mark of a mature man is that he wants to live humbly for one.

Turnings come in cycles of four. Each cycle spans the length of a long human life, roughly eighty to one hundred years, a unit of time the ancients called the saeculum. Together, the four turnings of the saeculum comprise history's seasonal rhythm of growth, maturation, entropy, and destruction:

There was a general belief that a long and unpleasant holiday was of crucial importance to one's development as a human being.

But you didn't lose touch with a place when it wasn't there any more, you didn't lose touch with yourself as you were when you were part of it, with your childhood, with your simplicity then.

To accept our past, it helps to reframe our stories and give a positive meaning to even the most difficult life events. We may have no power to change the past, but we do have the power to change the meaning we assign to it.

Taking responsibility for your life means owning your failures and faults as well as your successes and strengths.

Gigantic, willful, young,Chicago sitteth at the northwest gates.

When I overdo things and take chances, I learn faster.

mastery comes to you over time when you're focused. Don't get ahead of yourself.

the golden pathway to learning, not just in music but in anything in life, is through one's own, individual, honest mistakes.

The shadows of twilight grow, And the tiger's ancient fierceness In my veins begins to flow.

It occurs to me one evening as I'm feeding the birds that all I did was put two birds in the aviary, some food and water and nothing else and now there are six of them. I know this is perfectly natural, it's one of the things life is all about, but to have it happen in my bedroom, under my own eyes, is magic.

Every failure is a step to success. Every detection of what is false directs us towards what is true: every trial exhausts some tempting form of error.

every failure is a step to success!

When we see around us the tragedy of not taking this truth seriously and when we experience within ourselves the veracity of the truth, we will be positioned to move forward in our spiritual progress. We also will have a different attitude toward those who more obviously struggle in areas where we might only secretly have a problem. Day by day, an awareness of our condition will help us grow spiritually.

Don't be afraid to ask dumb questions. They're more easily handled than dumb mistakes.

Fair seedtime had my soul, and I grew upFostered alike by beauty and by fear.

Wisdom is oftentimes nearer when we stoop than when we soar.