Quotes About Growth

In Zen, there is an old saying: The obstacle is the path. Know that a whole and happy life is not free of obstacles. Quite the contrary, a whole and happy life is riddled with obstacles-they simply become the very stepping-stones that help lift us to a new perspective. It is not what happens to us in this life that shapes us, it is how we choose to respond to what happens to us.

We were born to be free, to expand our horizons by going where we have never gone before, and not to hang out in the relative comfort and safety of the nest, the known. There is a place within us that is courageous beyond our human understanding; it yearns to explore beyond the boundaries of our daily life.

To learn more, we have to be willing to leave the zone of the known and step into the void.

are only two mistakes one can make along the road to truth; not going all the way, and not starting. —BUDDHA

Living closer to the center of our being is the practice of a lifetime, but so, too, is skillfully living on the horizontal plane-the surface of life-where our purpose for being on the planet is uniquely expressed. Redefining moments are simply energy vortexes that draw the authentic self up (vertically) and out (horizontally) and into present moment awareness, revealing it to the light of day and the gifts it holds.

The key to everything is patience. You get the chicken by hatching the egg, not by smashing it. —ARNOLD H. GLASOW

If we were to excavate the deepest recesses of our consciousness, we would discover many beliefs about ourselves that are simply not true and that may never have been true...We may have defined ourselves in a limiting way based on our history and the opinion of others...and we stay stuck there because we fail to recognize there is a door right in front of us providing another opportunity to redefine who we are today.

Tell me a story.

Children can write poetry and then, unless they're poets, they stop when reach puberty.

The knowledge that we have about what it is to be human that we have as a child is something we necessarily must lose.

To be told that one can be dependent on one's parents until age 26 should strike a young person who wants to grow up as demeaning, not as something to celebrate.

the love of reading grows as on gets older, but I'm not so sure if the enthusiasm I brought to reading when I was a boy can ever be matched. Such was the influence of my mother, who never sat down without a book or magazine in her hands. I'm certain I watched her reading even before I was able to describe what I saw, and that image has stayed with me these many years.

A dream is your creative vision for your life in the future. You must break out of your current comfort zone and become comfortable with the unfamiliar and the unknown.

We don't have to sacrifice a strong economy for a healthy environment.

There are two kinds of pain in this world. The pain that hurts, the pain that alters.

Denzel Washington

A melhor maneira de melhorar a si mesmo é estar na companhia dos melhores que são melhores do que você. você não deve se sentir intimidado pelas pessoas que sap melhores do que você. Em vez disso, você deve recebê-los em sua vida e ser seu aluno, logo que possível. a vida é muito curta, mas é também um processo de aprendizagem que envolve a melhoria contínua.

A successful persons are those who pick up the lemons that life throws at them, and turn them into lemonade, lemon marmalade and crema di limoncillo. You have to be smart and savvy to build a solid foundation using the bricks that people throw at you. Success comes to only those who are smart to transform ever threat into a new opportunity, and overcome the adversity. Make a great day!

Accepting your Ignorance is your first step towards Knowledge. Acknowledging the Darkness around you will lead you to the Path of Illumination. Thou shalt therefore know and accept thy limitations, in order to overcome them successfully.

Aceptar su ignorancia es el primer paso hacia el conocimiento. Reconociendo la oscuridad que te rodea te llevará a la senda de la iluminación. Harás lo tanto conocen y aceptan tus limitaciones, con el fin de superarlas con éxito.

akceptuj?c swoj? ignorancj? jest pierwszym krokiem w kierunku wiedzy. uznaj?c ciemno?? wokó? ciebie doprowadzi Ci? do ?cie?ki iluminacji. Dlatego b?dziesz wiedzie? i zaakceptowa? twoje ograniczenia, w celu przezwyci??enia je pomy?lnie.

Al menos una vez en su vida, alguien va a hacer daño y probablemente quitarle su dignidad y todo lo que usted está tan orgulloso. Se le profundamente herido y roto en su interior. Usted todavía de pie, determinado que nunca para poner todas las piezas juntas. La fase de desafío le hará más inteligente y más fuerte. Nunca se sabe su verdadera fuerza hasta que el ser fuerte sea la única opción que les queda para sobrevivir.

Always strive to be a Diamond[ keeping in mind that a Diamond never starts out polished and shining. It once was coal, nothing so special, but with significant pressure over extended time, it becomes dazzling and amazingly spectacular. You are, and always will be, that Diamond.

Aprovechar al máximo todo lo que está disponible, especialmente durante los tiempos difíciles. si la vida lanza los limones en usted, hacer limonada dulce. Establecer una base sólida con los ladrillos que sus enemigos tirar de ti. Y lo más importante, aprovechar al máximo de ti mismo, porque eso es todo lo que hay para ti en este momento.