Quotes About Growth

There is always the possibility that people will change. Real change is more rare. You are who you are at a certain age in life you are pretty much a variation of that your whole life. It's conceivable that you will change but it's not likely.

If you're not failing every now and again, it's a sign you're not doing anything very innovative.

A relationship, I think, is, is like a shark, you know, it has to constantly move forward or it dies, and I think what we got on our hands is a dead shark.

If you're not failing now and again, it's a sign you're playing it safe.

For the first year of marriage I had basically a bad attitude. I tended to place my wife underneath a pedestal

Students achieving Oneness will move on to Twoness.

If you're not failing every now and again, it's a sign you're not doing anything very innovative.

Life has got a habit of not standing hitched. You got to ride it like you find it. You got to change with it. If a day goes by that don't change some of your old notions for new ones, that is just about like trying to milk a dead cow.

A grownup is a child with layers on.

There's nothing that cleanses your soul like getting the hell kicked out of you.

Today's problem is replaced by new prob lems in an unending procession. We seem barely to have a chance to catch our breath before new challenges confront us.

Buddhist practice is about developing character. And relationships are the forum, the classroom, in which we learn how.

How does the meadow-flower its bloom unfold? Because the lovely little flower is free Down to its root, and in that freedom bold.

Whether or not you get what you're looknig for depends entirely on one things and one thing only. It depends on your willingness to do something different.

If you're to achieve the peace, joy, and spiritual fulfillment that you want so badly, it depends upon one thing and one thing only— your willingness to simply do something different.

The failures and successes are necessary for learning.

The mother-daughter relationship is the most complex.

Any time you see someone more successful than you are ... they are doing something you aren't.

I'd be glad to go out on a limb with those Who want nothing beyond what the wind bestows, Were I not bound to roots, dug in deep to bear Never being done grasping for light and air

You should take [dogs] to hunt on different grounds at different times, in order that you may experience varieties in the chase, and that you yourself may become acquainted with the country.

If you consider what are called the virtues in mankind, you will find their growth is assisted by education and cultivation.

When the puppies are born, we must leave them with the mother, and not put them to another dog; for the nurture of strange dogs does not sufficiently contribute to growth; but the milk and breath of their mothers is good for them, and their caresses pleasing.

It's the heart afraid of breaking that never learns to dance.

When I left my village, it was like I took a step with my right foot and, by the time my left foot came to join it, four years had passed.