514 quotes found
“I suppose the test of one's decency is how much of a fight one can put up after one has stopped caring, and after one has found that one can never please the people they wanted to please.”
“If we contest with a lesser opponent, we reduce ourselves, and in the process wind up being lesser accomplished.”
“Knowing another is endless...The thing to be known grows with the knowing.”
“A seed, in order to grow, must first be planted under the best conditions. Be that space or time. I think, therefore, that you have yet to find your perfect conditions.”
“The thing is, the only real sign of life is growth. And growth requires pain. So to choose life is to accept pain. Some people go to such lengths to avoid pain that they give up on life. They bury ...”
“Every setback is an opportunity to grow.”
“Mentorship happens organically, and you cant just force it. Many men dont even know HOW to mentor, and often mentor others by accident. Its not a mentors responsibility to mentor, its the responsib...”
“The medal from an old grappling tournament will not serve me today, but the courage I developed in its acquisition will. By investing in yourself, by using all endeavors as a vehicle to shape who w...”
“For all bodies are in perpetual flux like rivers, and parts are passing in and out of them continually.”
“Just as we can play beautiful music only when the strings on the violin are in proper tension, so we can grow only when we are stretched from what we are to what we can be. There is no growth witho...”
“Plateaus are a manifestation of the law of diminishing returns, and when we reach one it simply means that it is time to adjust our methods.”
“Many of us begin this art with little to no understanding of what we are getting ourselves into. Then, maybe a year or a black belt later, we realize this odyssey we have embarked upon and rest hap...”
“Several times in my ministry people have expressed the fear that self-acceptance will abort the ongoing conversion process and lead to a life of spiritual laziness and moral laxity. Nothing could b...”
“Self-discipline is a self-enlarging process.”
“Somehow in the chaos and mess she'd discovered who she was. Not a girl of the streets, though that was where she'd been raised. Not a woman of the court, though she appreciated the beauty and the g...”
“You see it is important to understand how damaged people dont always know how to say yes, or to choose the big thing, even when it is right in front of them. Its a shame we carry. The shame of want...”
“The people who help us grow toward true self offer unconditional love, neither judging us to be deficient nor trying to force us to change but accepting us exactly as we are. And yet this unconditi...”
“If I knew what I know today, years ago, I wouldnt change a thing about anything. I would not have appreciated what I know today if it hadnt been for what I didnt know.”
“The will to grow is in essence the same phenomenon as love. Love is the will to extend oneself for spiritual growth. Genuinely loving people are, by definition, growing people.”
“If I flew for you, you would still be standing.”
