Quotes About Growth

The only way out is through.

How many things have to happen to you before something occurs to you

But love may have to be left off the exam. Most of us will never learn.

Remember, most of us got something for nothing the first time just by showing up here at birth. Now we have to qualify.

We even make ourselves up, fusing what we are with what we wish into what we must become. I'm not sure why it must be so, but it is.

Just when you thought that you already learned the way how to live, life changes - and you're left the same as you begun.

The grass is not always greener on the other side of the fence. The grass is greenest where it is watered.

Life will examine us continually to see if we have understood and have practiced what we were taught that first year of school.

all things live only if something else is cleared out of the path to make way. No death; no life. No exceptions. Things must come and go. People. Years. Ideas. Everything. The wheel turns, and the old is cleared away as fodder for the new.

The seeds of the day are best planted in the first hour. DUTCH PROVERB

The shift of self-perception is the most powerful ingredient in the chain reaction of becoming the person you are always becoming.

Learning came easy to him. Life did not.

Kindness is the sunshine in which virtue grows.

Become who you are by learning who you are.

Fools say that they learn by experience. I prefer to profit by others' experience.

If we experience any failures or setbacks, we do not forget them because they offend our self-esteem. Instead we reflect on them deeply, trying to figure out what went wrong and discern whether there are any patterns to our mistakes.

Everything that happens to you is a form of instruction if you pay attention.

Without enemies around us, we grow lazy. An enemy at our heels sharpens our wits, keeping us focused and alert. It is sometimes better, then, to use enemies as enemies rather than transforming them into friends or allies.

The key then to attaining this higher level of intelligence is to make our years of study qualitatively rich. We don't simply absorb information - we internalize it and make it our own by finding some way to put this knowledge to practical use.

Those qualities that separate us are often ridiculed by others or criticized by teachers. Because of these judgments, we might see our strengths as disabilities and try to work around them in order to fit in. But anything that is peculiar to our makeup is precisely what we must pay the deepest attention to and lean on in our rise to mastery.

Image: An Oak Tree. The oak that resists the wind loses its branches one by one, and with nothing left to protect it, the trunk fi nally snaps. The oak that bends lives long er, its trunk grow ing wider, its roots deeper and more tenacious.

At your birth a seed is planted. That seed is your uniqueness. It wants to grow, transform itself, and flower to its full potential. It has a natural, assertive energy to it. Your Life's Task is to bring that seed to flower, to express your uniqueness through your work. You have a destiny to fulfill. The stronger you feel and maintain it--as a force, a voice or in whatever form-- the greater your chance of fulfilling this Life's Task and achieving mastery.

Man will only become better when you make him see what he is like. —Anton Chekhov

We want to learn the lesson and not repeat the experience. But in truth, we do not like to look too closely at what we did; our introspection is limited. Our natural response is to blame others, circumstances, or a momentary lapse of judgment.