Quotes About Growth

You need a backbone to enter the Church of the Serpents. You need to have the guts to shed your old skin and undergo a metamorphosis. What are you capable of becoming? What transformation lies ahead of you?

Grab onto life and live it well. Don't sit and watch it pass by, and don't overindulge. Never shy away from a challenge or hard work or improvement on all fronts. Fuse your intellect and will together to create an edifice the gods themselves would envy.

Always pursue glory. Shine like the stars. Burn up with ambition. Shed your old skin. Try, try, and try again. Fail, fail, and fail again. But fail better, and one day you will not fail at all.

You can never make any progress in life unless you actually understand that which operates at a higher level than you, so that you can then try to rise to that higher level. Most people just assume that they are already at the highest level, and so they criticize everything at odds with their beliefs, including the very highest content possible, and thus they never learn, never grow, never evolve.

How do you fill the hole? Only by becoming Whole, which means becoming fully individuated, which means fully integrating all the contents of the unconscious, both personal and collective.

To psychologically kill something, you must integrate it. To psychologically empower something, you need only avoid it, deny it, repress it, project it, and so on.

Playing to win involves viewing a loss as an opportunity to learn and improve. Getting

Age is an opportunity no less than youth itself, though in another dress.

the behavior we see as "diminished" in elderly parents, clients, and friends actually exists to do a very specific developmental job.

If we don't resolve the key issues at each stage, we may get stuck and be considered immature by our peers.

In this school of life, it is impossible to need a particular lesson without that lesson appearing. It is impossible for a lesson to appear without your needing it. The next lesson is always ready and waiting.

So you're saying that death is the kick in the pants our species needs to not turn into vegetables.

the third kind of thing we don't think about—the things the thinking of which just plain scares us. The things the thinking of which would change everything.

Sometimes I feel an obligation to be accessible as a personality, but for me the driving force since the beginning has always been good work, taking risks, trying new things. If the door opens, go through it. Always go forwards.

The best people in life make the world a bigger place, then help you grow to fit it.

With the world's human population now at seven billion and growing, and the demand for technology and modern conveniences increasing, we can't control all our negative impacts. But we have to find better ways to live within the limits nature and its cycles impose.

By being loved the power is released in the infant to love others. This is a critically important lesson that, as human beings, we need to understand and learn: that the cultivation of the growth and the development of love in the child should be its natural birthright.

Teaching happens when teachers help students to think about what they are doing and learning, to ask questions, to consider new possibilities, to take seriously their own capacities to grow and learn and to develop a sense of judgment.

Boys dream of war. But men can dream of peace.

My staff and budget at the AIDS clinic doubled every year," recalled Volberding, "and Feinstein didn't blink an eye. She was completely responsive to whatever I asked from her.

When we listen to one another, we heal and learn. When we condemn and vilify one another, at best we lose the ability to grow; at worst, people get hurt.

The principles now planted in thy bosom will grow, and one day reach maturity; and in that maturity thou wilt find thy heaven or thy hell.

People find it easier to join an ongoing success. Show them a glimpse of the future and you'll get them to rally around.[7]

J'ai tenté d'être face à elle un homme fort conscient de ses faiblesses, un homme vêtu qui ne craint pas sa nudité, un homme droit qui connaît ses courbes et ses fractures. Tout ce chemin que j'ai fait pour la rencontrer m'a permis de me parcourir moi-même, c'est long de se parcourir.