Quotes About Progress

The thing about personal growth, I've discovered, is that you rarely get any choice in it. It only ever happens as a side-effect of some loss or trauma.

The old Chinese proverb springs to mind - No pain, no gain.

Sometimes things fall apart so that better things can fall together – Marilyn Monroe

It might be uncomfortable. But it's an opportunity. An opportunity for what? Personal growth. Internally, I sighed. Wretched personal growth. Always so unpleasant.

One can never go back. You know that.

Expectations are merely disappointments under construction.') As

arrived here he was still only a senator.

As they say in New York, Get over it and, if you can't get over it, Get over talking about it.

We must not, in trying to think about how we can make a big difference, ignore the small daily differences we can make which, over time, add up to big differences that we often cannot foresee.

Failure is just another way to learn how to do something right.

If you don't like the way the world is, you change it. You have an obligation to change it. You just do it one step at a time.

We must not assume a door is closed but must push on it. We must not assume if it was closed yesterday that it's closed today.

If things are too easy, life is a whole lot less interesting.

Spiritual progress is like a detoxification.

You must learn a new way to think before you can master a new way to be.

if the train doesn't stop at your station, it's not your train.

growth can be messy.

Only infinite patience produces immediate results.

People are not perfect—that is, they do not yet express externally their internal perfection.

It has been said that love brings up everything unlike itself, and sometimes just when we feel we are moving towards a solution, the problem comes up again and grabs us by the throat. That is natural. It is part of the process. Do not despair.

Think something isn't good enough, and it never will be. Think something is wonderful, and it will only get better.

Las tinieblas son una invitación a la luz, que insta a nuestros espíritus a avanzar.

El único fracaso verdadero es no ser capaces de crecer como resultado de nuestras experiencias.

Midlife is about surrendering things that no longer matter, not because our lives are in decline, but because they're on an incline