Quotes About Growth

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A veces, cuando algún profesor termina la explicación y pregunta si ha quedado alguna duda, Sylvia tiene ganas de levantar la mano y decir sí, ¿podría volver a empezar desde el principio?, pero desde el principio del principio, desde que nacemos, porque aún no he comprendido nada en estos casi dieciséis años de vida.

En la primera mitad de la vida lo que más importa es la apariencia externa, pero cuando entramos en la segunda sólo nos mantienen los cimientos, los pilares ocultos donde se sienta la estructura de nuestra personalidad.

Nos hacemos mayores, pero no nos hacemos mejores.

Improving the skills of HR colleagues. The best learners are also teachers. Investing in building the skills of HR colleagues requires individuals to be clear and disciplined about a topical area, tool, or technology.

Rabbit Droppings

The very act of mentoring changes and matures the mentor as well as the mentee. This is the reason it's so important to encourage mentees to mentor others. Unless and until they mentor others, the mentoring process is of limited value.

The science of replacement says that in order for us to be better people, our goals should be to replace our worst habits and focus our attention in other places.

Don't go into the relationship expecting it to be perfect, only to be let-down and angry once you all realize that y'all have work to do.

Never be too willing to expose yourself to your weaknesses. Find ways to curve your weaknesses by forming buffers between your vices and your heart.

Vegtables, what food eats before it becomes food.

There is no finish line. So love the journey.

The whole key to life is discovering things for yourself. What you do with that discovery is what lies on the other side of that door.

Chesterton,' he said gently, 'this is the hardest part of all for you. I know exactly what you're going through and it's no triumph for me to be right. I have transported us all away from your world and your Universe and we have landed on a new planet. Accept that because you must. Tears and anger will not take you back to Earth, so learn from this new experience and profit by it.

No matter the self-conceited importance of our labors we are all compost for worlds we cannot yet imagine.

Humiliation is mostly something we try to avoid, but it is something more often, all for the best, in retrospect. There is a lovely root to the word, the Latin word humus, meaning soil or ground. When we are humiliated, we are in effect returned to the ground of our being. Any fancy ideas we have about ourselves are shriven away by the reality of the moment. We come to earth with a thump. It may be a narrow piece of ground, but at least it is real and at least it is our own.

Let the apple ripen on the branch beyond your need to take it down.

The great question in disappointment is whether we allow it to bring us to ground, to a firmer sense of our self, a surer sense of the world, and what is good and possible for us in that world, or whether we experience it only as a wound that make us retreat from further participation.

What we are actually about to become or are afraid of becoming always trumps and rules over what we think we are already.

We find that, all along, we had what we needed from the beginning and that in the end we have returned to its essence, an essence we could not understand until we had experienced the actual heartbreak of the journey.

There is no possibility of pursuing a work without coming to terms with all the ways it is impossible to do it. Feeling far away from what we want tells us one of two things about our work: that we are at the beginning or that we have

beginning well means seating ourselves in the body again, catching up with ourselves and the person we have become since we last tried to begin.

To forgive is to put oneself in a larger gravitational field of experience than the one that first seemed to hurt us. We reimagine ourselves in the light of our maturity and we reimagine the past in the light of our new identity; we allow ourselves to be gifted by a story larger than the story that first hurt us and left us bereft.

Winning does not tempt that man, this is how he grows, by being defeated decisively, by greater and greater beings.