Quotes About Growth

The stunted pines elude capture in a thousand sidetracked increments. The wind will never understand them. Like us it is forced to go on.

sole goal of the inception stage is to achieve critical mass by cultivating a small group of highly active members in the community. This group becomes the foundation upon which to build the community. Unless a small, active, group is established it is impossible to develop a successful long-term community.

Your vision of both macro and micro levels will be greatly enhanced by the time you spend in the belly of the beast bringing it to life.

You don't marry one person you marry three . the person you think they are, the person they are, and the person they are going to become as the result of being married to you.

There may be more to learn by climbing the same mountain a hundred times than by climbing a hundred different mountains.

The best thing you can do with your ideas is to always be ready to abandon them.

He was no longer that boy; she was no longer that girl. But both still lived within them, she understood, and they were meeting again, deepened by all that had happened to them since, the realization of all they had missed.

By the time Rockefeller left office in 1973, SUNY was the world's largest university system, with a quarter million students attending classes on sixty-four campuses. For

Keep a journal of disappointments, failures, and self-destructive actions. It's important to write this down because these are the kinds of things your self-serving bias will want to forget or minimize.

Each day's practice does some good, and if you slip and fall off your diet or exercise program or mindfulness practice, all that you have learned before is not undone; it's still there in your brain waiting for you to get back in the saddle.

we can reprogram our own brains through focused practice of any new skill, through attending to ourselves in a mindful, noncritical way.

Science knows now that our brain does not simply store our experiences. Each experience changes the brain, structurally, electrically, chemically. The brain becomes the experience. If we are careful about the experiences we give our brains, we can change the brain itself.

I was born not knowing and have had only a little time to change that here and there.

The lesson to be learned from this is that it is often undesirable to go for the right thing first. It is better to get half of the right thing available so that it spreads like a virus. Once people are hooked on it, take the time to improve it to 90% of the right thing.

Adults are more likely to act their way into a new way of thinking than to think their way into a new way of acting.

Critical thinking is thinking about your thinking while you're thinking in order to make your thinking better.

It has been a mistake living my life in the past. One cannot ride a horse backwards and still hold its reins.

The thing is, the only real sign of life is growth. And growth requires pain. So to choose life is to accept pain.

So often the pain of our life is no more than a reminder to take our hand off the stove.

Forgiveness does not require us to close our eyes but rather to truly open them.

We can spend our days bemoaning our losses, or we can grow from them. Ultimately the choice is ours. We can be victims of circumstance or masters of our own fate, but make no mistake, we cannot be both. The Walk - Epilogue Page 288

Regret is the most tiresome of companions.

Roses can grow in slums just as weeds can grow around mansions.

Everyone who got to where they are had to begin where they were.