514 quotes found
“You will be a different person after the storm, because the storm will heal you from your perfection.”
“Everyone wants to live on top of the mountain, but all the happiness and growth occurs while you're climbing it.”
“In his forty-third year William Stoner learned what others, much younger, had learned before him: that the person one loves at first is not the person one loves at last, and that love is not an end...”
“Would God be a frequent contact or an in case of emergency in your phone? If he is only an in case of emergency, he will you in different emergencies so he can be frequently contacted.”
“For growing again, one has to fall apart and fall to bits.”
“The only true end of love is spiritual growth or human evolution.”
“Suffering has been stronger than all other teaching, and has taught me to understand what your heart used to be. I have been bent and broken, but - I hope - into a better shape.”
“We do not grow absolutely, chronologically. We grow sometimes in one dimension, and not in another; unevenly. We grow partially. We are relative. We are mature in one realm, childish in another. Th...”
“The person in life that you will always be with the most, is yourself. Because even when you are with others, you are still with yourself, too! When you wake up in the morning, you are with yoursel...”
“My destination is no longer a place, rather a new way of seeing.”
“No person is ever wrong in how they experience their reality.”
“The greatest thing in this world is not so much where we stand as in what direction we are moving.”
“Sometimes we know in our bones what we really need to do, but we're afraid to do it. Taking a chance and stepping beyond the safety of the world we've always known is the only way to grow, though a...”
“The day is ending. It's time for something that was beautiful to turn into something else that is beautiful. Now, Let go.”
“True pain teaches us to grow. You aren't finished yet. Dylan needs you.”
“And the day came when the risk to remain closed in a bud became more painful that the risk it took to blossom. [likely not Anas Nin; look under "Disputed quotes" on the Wikiquote page for her]”
“The truth might hurt but lies hurt even more.”
“When it comes to the core of who we are, it takes incredible effort to shift more than one standard deviation from the mean of your life.”
“There is an unspoken agreement in every successful relationship: "I'm not perfect and you're not perfect. I can ignore your imperfections if you can ignore mine. I choose to spend my life in your c...”
“Some might say it was lack of love I would say it was out of love.”