Quotes About Growth

One time I saw a tiny Joshua tree sapling growing not too far from the old tree. I wanted to dig it up and replant it near our house. I told Mom that I would protect it from the wind and water it every day so that it could grow nice and tall and straight. Mom frowned at me. "You'd be destroying what makes it special," she said. "It's the Joshua tree's struggle that gives it its beauty.

Most important thing in life is learning how to fall.

Sometimes you need a little crisis to get your adrenaline flowing and help you realize your potential.

Sometimes you have to get sicker before you can get better.

You can't cling to the side your whole life, that one lesson every parent needs to teach a child is "If you don't want to sink, you better figure out how to swim

Accept what you can't change, and change what you can. It's easier than you think.

chaque jour à mon âme tu ajoutes une flamme des fleurs à ma corbeille un rai à mon soleil

The ego is like a clever monkey, which can co-opt anything, even the most spiritual practices, so as to expand itself. (155)

The best religion or practice is the one that makes us better. (42)

As governor, I saw the link between economic prosperity and the ability to acquire knowledge.

Most people, upon reaching the top, look down and enjoy the view. The smart money is on looking up and finding new mountains to climb.

Daily I learn — sometimes painfully, other times with glee — that mine is a path never meant to be paved.

Crossing over the boundaries we've been taught to live within is a tough business. But I'm getting the idea they're not so formidable.

A bud can be beautiful, a work of art even. But I'm finding it simply can't compare to the openness of the blossom. Looking for my sun.

Many of us have been burned by love and vowed to keep ourselves safe and not get pulled in again. But, inevitably, we do. Then we vow that this time, it's going to be different. This time, we're not going to make the same mistakes. And things seem wonderful--for a while. But more often than not, the same problems come up over and over.

Nobody likes to have their cherished beliefs dumped on, but dumping on cherished beliefs is the name of the game.

The most useful piece of learning for the uses of life is to unlearn what is untrue. Antisthenes

Be careful what you wish for, not because you'll get it but because you'll be turned into the thing that can get it. It's not a process where you just ask for something and it magically appears, it's a process that breaks you down and rebuilds you into the right tool for the job.

Waking up is not a scholastic pursuit or a conceptual challenge. The ability to open the next door is the only thing that matters, and the key can come in any package; a book, a stubbed toe, an advertising jingle, a leaf of grass. If your intent is in place, then the universe will act as your librarian and you'll always have you what you need when you need it.

Why is everyone seeking and no one finding? Because they're not seeking truth or growth or change, they're seeking peace of mind. The rest is just dressing.

She doesn't get to be a healer because the gods bestow powers upon her, but through the prolonged, rigorous, all-consuming struggle of her own self-healing.

You go forward when you can't stay where you are. That's the process.

Life has only one form: forgetting,

Life is a series of abandonings.