514 quotes found
“Growth is limited by the necessity which is present in the least amount. And naturally, the least favorable condition controls the growth rate”
“there is no growth except in the fulfillment of obligations”
“If somebody tells you a rule, break it. That's the only thing to move things forward.”
“I carry inside myself my earlier faces, as a tree contains its rings.”
“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...”
“You never know what’s going to be in the garden in June when you’re looking at it in January.”
“People are always waiting around for that magical person who’ll walk into their life and fix them, who’ll offer up some vital piece they’ve been missing and make them complete. They spend years try...”
“even so did you feel yourself swept away by that inward migration about which no one had ever said a word to you…A great wind swept through and delivered from the matrix the sleeping prince you she...”
“Mentorship happens organically, and you can’t just force it. Many men don’t even know HOW to mentor, and often mentor others by accident. It’s not a mentor’s responsibility to mentor, it’s the resp...”
“You see it is important to understand how damaged people don’t always know how to say yes, or to choose the big thing, even when it is right in front of them. It’s a shame we carry. The shame of wa...”
“If I knew what I know today, years ago, I wouldn’t change a thing about anything. I would not have appreciated what I know today if it hadn’t been for what I didn’t know.”
“The process of fostering the growth of another living being—either plant or human—is a delight for the soul.”
“She formed her life day by day, taking as its materials the emptiness and panic as well as the rushes, like fever, of contentment. I am beyond fear of solitude, she thought, I am past it. The idea ...”
“It was a strange thing about people- they could look the same but be different.”
“People don’t need to be forced to grow. All we need is favorable circumstances: respect, love, honesty, and the space to explore.”
“That we are bound to the earth does not mean that we cannot grow; on the contrary it is the sine qua non of growth. No noble, well-grown tree ever disowned its dark roots, for it grows not only upw...”
“I find it boring and a waste of time debating other people’s opinions, however challenging my own is always intriguing and there is where I inevitably discover growth.”
“Your life is your teacher and whatever comes to you is the work of your soul. Things are never as they appear on the surface. Your lessons are woven into your losses and challenges and only you can...”
“It’s sometimes difficult to align our wants with our needs, for old programing and new paradigms vibrate at very different levels.”
“You can no longer hide from me. I am your soul ache come to guide you home.”
