Quotes About Growth

I work steadily, and I always thank the process. Whether

As my friend Pastor Rob Bell warns: "Don't rush through the experiences and circumstances that have the most capacity to transform you." Don't let go of your courage the moment things stop being easy or rewarding. Because that moment? That's the moment when interesting begins.

from Beatrix in this case, who quoted the esteemed Swedish botanical taxonomist Carl Linnaeus on how to distinguish minerals from plants, and plants from animals: "Stones grow. Plants grow and live. Animals grow, live, and feel

It was an adventure. You must learn in life to take things more lightly, my dear. The world is always changing. Learn how to allow for it.

I believe that our creativity grows like sidewalk weeds out of the cracks between our pathologies—not from the pathologies themselves.

both pleasure and devotion require a stress-free space in which to flourish...

Pero ese amor que has sentido no es más que el comienzo. Casi ni lo has probado. Es sólo amor mortal, cutre y chapucero.Ya verás como eres capaz de amar mucho más profundamente. Diablos, Zampa, que un día llegarás a querer al mundo entero. Ese es tu destino. No te rías.

People think a soul mate is your perfect fit, and that's what everyone wants. But a true soul mate is a mirror, the person who shows you everything that's holding you back, the person who brings you to your own attention so you can change your life.

Every time a diminishing thought arises, I repeat the vow I will not harbor unhealthy thoughts anymore.

I don't want to be married anymore. I was trying so hard not to know this, but the truth kept insisting itself to me.

they quit as soon as things aren't easy anymore, as soon as it gets painful, or boring, or agitating. They quit as soon as they see something in their minds that scares them or hurts them. So they miss the good part, the wild part, the transformative part—the part when you push past the difficulty and enter into some raw new unexplored universe within yourself.

So be lonely, Liz. Learn your way around loneliness. Make a map of it. Sit with it, for once in your life. Welcome to the human experience.

Why would your creativity not love you? It came to you, didn't it? It drew itself near. It worked itself into you, asking for your attention and your devotion. It filled you with the desire to make and do interesting things. Creativity wanted a relationship with you. That must be for a reason, right? Do you honestly believe that creativity went through all the trouble of breaking into your consciousness only because it wanted to kill you?

the drive for perfectionism is a corrosive waste of time, because nothing is ever beyond criticism. No

When we are young, Angela, we may fall victim to the misconception that time will heal all wounds and that eventually everything will shake itself out. But as we get older, we learn this sad truth: some things can never be fixed. Some mistakes can never be put right—not by the passage of time, and not by our most fervent wishes, either. In my experience, this is the hardest lesson of them all.

So that's the final lesson, isn't it? When you set out in the world to help yourself, you inevitably end up helping- Tutti.

Chop up that failure and use it for bait to try to catch another project.

Fake it till you make it

I made a decision a long time ago that if I want creativity in my life—and I do—then I will have to make space for fear, too.

That's just your ego, trying to make sure it stays in charge. This is what your ego does. It keeps you feeling separate, keeps you with a sense of duality, tries to convince you that you're flawed and broken and alone instead of whole.

So this was the Ashram's final joke on me? Once I had learned to accept my loud, chatty, social nature and fully embrace my inner Key Hostess - only then could I become The Quiet Girl in the Back of the Temple, after all?

Por qué te vas a meter en una diminuta caja de identidad pudiendo experimentar tu infinidad?

A true soul mate is probably the most important person you'll ever meet, because they tear down your walls and smack you awake. <...> Soul mates, they come into your life just to reveal another layer of yourself to you, <...> tear apart your ego a little bit, show your obstacles and addictions, break your heart open so new light could get in, make you so desperate and out of control that you [have] to transform your life.

This supreme lesson of karma (and also of Western psychology, by the way)-take care of the problems now, or else you'll just have to suffer again later when you screw everything up the next time.