514 quotes found
“I class the principle of moral feeling under that of happiness, because every empirical interest promises to contribute to our well-being by the agreeableness that a thing affords, whether profit b...”
“I have a theory that every time you make an important choice, the part of you left behind continues the other life you could have had. Some people's emanations are very strong, some people create t...”
“There's a chance that I'm not here at all, that all the parts of me, running along all the choices I did and didn't make, for a moment brush against each other. That I am still an evangelist in the...”
“People do go back, but they don't survive, because two realities are claiming them at the same time. Such things are too much. You can salt your heart, or kill your heart, or you choose between the...”
“Obstacles are there to give you more opportunities to grow and excel in life.”
“Accept your mistakes. Overcome your mistakes. Grow from your mistakes. Growth only comes after you have realized your mistakes. If you accept your mistake and have gained knowledge from it, it was ...”
“You need not have any motivation but the motivation to overpower your mind.”
“The people who make you feel small, unworthy and valueless are toxic people. You can never expect to grow in life by being close to them. Leave them to grow in life.”
“I felt the pain and the glory of growth, was straining and shuddering with it.”
“I carry inside myself my earlier faces, as a tree contains its rings.”
“Never feel sorry for me, just teach me and watch me grow.”
“Great hardship always seems to be the prerequisite to meaningful spiritual growth.”
“Maturity is the ability to see what is important and what is not.”
“Never pupil was more humble, never pupil more obedient; thinking nothing of himself or of anything he had done or could do, his path was open to the swiftest and highest growth. It matters little w...”
“Reinvention is no rushed religion.”
“A sense of our inadequacies and failings, a recognition that we could be better people than we usually are, isone of the forces for moral growth and improvement in our society. An appropriate sense...”
“You never know whats going to be in the garden in June when youre looking at it in January.”
“People are always waiting around for that magical person wholl walk into their life and fix them, wholl offer up some vital piece theyve been missing and make them complete. They spend years trying...”
“even so did you feel yourself swept away by that inward migration about which no one had ever said a word to youA great wind swept through and delivered from the matrix the sleeping prince you shel...”
“Perfection is dangerous. It leaves no room for range.”
