Quotes About Growth

In the small seeds of plants lie hidden both bulk and branches, bud and fruit. In a few principles lie hidden all comfortable conclusions of holy truth. All these glorious fireworks of zeal and holiness in the saints had their beginning from a few sparks.

You'd break your heart to make it bigger, so why not crack your skull when the mind swells.

You are a fever I am learning to live with.

This is also part of the story: how the story changes.

Every morning another chapter where the hero shifts from one foot to the other.

It's simple: it isn't over, it's just begun. It's green. It's still green.

Every story has its chapter in the desert, the long slide from kingdom to kingdom through the wilderness, where you learn things, where you're left to your own devices.

There is rarely any joy in a frictionless space, so find your inner viscosity.

But people keep outgrowing their outgrowing

For you, that tree is dead.

No man was ever so completely skilled in the conduct of life, as not to receive new information from age and experience

If we can teach a teacher we can reach more people.

By maturity, he meant that he learned to control those more youthful impulses, not that he was no longer stung or hurt or angry. It is not that you always know what to do or how to do it, it is that you are able to tamp down the emotions and anxieties that get in the way of seeing the world as it is. You can see through them, and that will see you through.

Being a warrior doesn't mean winning or even succeeding. It means risking and failing and risking again, as long as you live.

Mi llamada es a los jóvenes de espíritu, sin perjuicio de su edad" dijo una vez John

A day will dawn when you will laugh at all your past efforts." Ramana Maharshi

Try to see the past as a room separate from the one you live in now. You can go in there, but you don't live there anymore.

We do learn from experience and may not make the same mistakes again, but there is a whole new pickle jar of fresh ones just lying in wait for us to trip up and fall into. The secret is to accept this and not to beat yourself up when you do make new ones.

The best thing is that if you get a lot of mistakes over and done with early on in your life, there will be less to learn the hard way later on. And that's what youth is all about, a chance to make all the mistakes you can and get them out of the way

This has to be a Rule because there can be no choice here. We have to accept that we are the way we are—the result of everything that has happened. It all just is.

Wisdom isn't about not making mistakes, but about learning to escape afterwards with our dignity and sanity intact.

Richard Turner

I discovered that being someone you are not is often easier than living with the person you are.

Teachings come from everywhere when you open yourself to them. That's the trick of it really, to open yourself to everything and everything opens itself to you.