Quotes About Growth

This evolution towards a real responsibility for others is sometimes blocked by fear. It is easier to stay on the level of a pleasant way of life in which we keep our freedom and our distance. But that means that we stop growing and shut ourselves up in our own small concerns and pleasures.

Our humanity is so beautiful, but it needs to be transformed

Community as caring . . . So many people enter groups in order to develop a certain form of spirituality or to acquire knowledge about the things of God and of humanity. But that is not community; it is a school. It becomes community only when people start truly caring for each other and for each other's growth.

Belonging is for becoming . . . if for some reason it becomes stifling, then the person may have to take the risk of moving on, no matter how painful the separation may be. Community as such is never an end in itself. It is people and love and communion with God that are the goal. But, of course, a separation of this kind comes only after mature discernment and not just because being in community is painful or because there is a new leader we do not like!

Belonging is important for our growth to independence; even further, it is important for our growth to inner freedom and maturity. It is only through belonging that we can break out of the shell of individualism and self-centredness that both protects and isolates us.

He comes into that part of our being that is our treasure, that sacred space within us, hidden under all the fears, walls and anger in us so that we may grow in the spirit of love.

As human sciences develop and the world evolves, we are called to grow into a new and deeper understanding of the Source of the universe and of life. As we participate in this, our sense of the true expands. Freedom is to be in awe of this Source, of the beauty and diversity of people, and of the universe. It is to contemplate the height and breadth of all that is true.

Growth will come as we come closer to people who are different from us and as we learn to welcome and listen even to those who trigger off our pain.

In a relationship of communion, you are you and I am I; I have my identity and you have yours. I must be myself and you must be yourself. We are called to grow together, each one becoming more fully himself or herself. Communion, in fact, gives the freedom to grow. It is not possessiveness. It entails a deep listening to others, helping them to become more fully themselves.

Growth begins when we begin to accept our own weakness.

You must remember that you cannot form your character in a moment, my dear. Character is a plant of slow growth and the seeds must be planted early.

Estoy pasando por un cambio total de mi carácter. Odio la inestabilidad. Me asusta la idea de ver mi vida desorganizada.

Do you think a woman of that age is attractive if she deals in subterfuges and evasions? Character," she added solemnly, "is a plant of slow growth, and the seeds must be planted early.

I'm getting old... Soon I'll be thirty, and then forty, and then fifty; and do you think any one will love me then if I deal in subterfuges and evasions? Character, my dear girls, is a plant of slow growth, and the seeds must be planted early.

I am learning so many new things every day that when each Saturday night comes I look back on the Sallie of last Saturday night, amazed at her ignorance.

Oh, I'm developing a beautiful character! It droops a bit under cold and frost, but it does grow fast when the sun shines. That's the way with everybody. I don't agree with the theory that adversity and sorrow and disappointment develop moral strength. The happy people are the ones who are bubbling over with kindliness.

The more I study men, the more I realize that they are nothing in the world but boys grown too big to be spankable.

Getting an education is an awfully wearing process!

Of course, learning is strengthened and solidified when it occurs in a safe, secure and normal environment.

Il nous semble aujourd'hui que le mariage est quelque chose de trop sérieux pour le confier à des jeunes gens. Ce devrait être un aboutissement, vous ne croyez pas? Un but à atteindre, un idéal. Pour y parvenir, il faudrait toutes les ressources de la maturité, toutes les leçons de l'expérience et le temps surtout, le temps pour rencontrer la bonne personne et la reconnaître...

Le Chemin est une alchimie du temps sur l'âme.

Nu mai tr?im un prezent placid, ci suntem prinÈ™i cu toÈ›ii în efortul de a ne preg?ti permanent pentru viitor.

CunoÈ™tinÈ›ele sunt cele care se adun? în capul nostru f?r? s? ne fie întotdeauna de vreun folos. CunoaÈ™terea e transformarea unor cunoÈ™tinÈ›e într-o experien?? de via??.

Cada noche se decía: "Debe ser menos hermosa de lo que creo, es mi imaginación que se desboca", y cada noche se desmentía y la encontraba más bonita que el día anterior.