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I hated the flashcards and I hated the multiplication tables, but I did enjoy the fact that my dad took time out of his schedule to help me in the areas in which I needed it.
— Sara Dormon, So You Want to Adopt...Now What?: A Practical Guide for Navigating the Adoption Process
Good poetry does not exist merely for the sake of itself, but rather, is a byproduct of yearning and growth; great poetry canonizes that yearning for the growth of others.
— Bryant McGill, Simple Reminders: Inspiration for Living Your Best Life
Once you reach the summit of your own heart you will see beauty is everywhere.
— Bryant McGill, Simple Reminders: Inspiration for Living Your Best Life
Limitless material growth is not sustainable or moral.
— Bryant McGill, Simple Reminders: Inspiration for Living Your Best Life
Stop holding-on to the wrong people. Let them go on their own way; if not for you, then for them.
— Bryant McGill, Simple Reminders: Inspiration for Living Your Best Life
Real love sometimes means saying goodbye.
— Bryant McGill, Simple Reminders: Inspiration for Living Your Best Life
One of the fastest ways you can profoundly change your life is to rid yourself of toxic people.
— Bryant McGill, Simple Reminders: Inspiration for Living Your Best Life
The way to send a clear message that you are ready for better people in your life is the kick the rascals to the curb.
— Bryant McGill, Simple Reminders: Inspiration for Living Your Best Life
Don't allow others to make you feel small. You came to this world to grow and to explore and touch the miracles and marvels of life.
— Bryant McGill, Simple Reminders: Inspiration for Living Your Best Life
Taking personal responsibility is not about being "responsible" — it is about seeing your truth and evolving.
— Bryant McGill, Simple Reminders: Inspiration for Living Your Best Life
This is your life and you have the right and responsibility to make good decisions for yourself.
— Bryant McGill, Simple Reminders: Inspiration for Living Your Best Life
If you don't like something in your life, look only at who you are.
— Bryant McGill, Simple Reminders: Inspiration for Living Your Best Life
You must clear out what you don't want, to make room for what you do want to arrive.
— Bryant McGill, Simple Reminders: Inspiration for Living Your Best Life
If you want more then be more. If you want better then be better.
— Bryant McGill, Simple Reminders: Inspiration for Living Your Best Life
Balance in life is the key to everything.
— Bryant McGill, Simple Reminders: Inspiration for Living Your Best Life
Only in growth, reform, and change, paradoxically enough, is true security to be found.
— Anne Morrow Lindbergh
Sometimes you have to get away from what you know to discover what you don't know.
— Bryant McGill, Simple Reminders: Inspiration for Living Your Best Life
Until you stop blaming and become positively self-critical you are not going to move forward.
— Bryant McGill, Simple Reminders: Inspiration for Living Your Best Life
Find a new and better leader within yourself, for yourself.
— Bryant McGill, Simple Reminders: Inspiration for Living Your Best Life
The real ladder of opportunity is ascending levels of consciousness.
— Bryant McGill, Simple Reminders: Inspiration for Living Your Best Life
Nothing grows in the shadow of want without the sunlight of acknowledging your fullness.
— Bryant McGill, Simple Reminders: Inspiration for Living Your Best Life
Because we are always growing, life compounds and magnifies what is already in us.
— Bryant McGill, Simple Reminders: Inspiration for Living Your Best Life
If we all desire love and acceptance, shouldn't we love and accept all others?
— Rob Liano
You must cultivate value within yourself if you want to move forward.
— Bryant McGill, Simple Reminders: Inspiration for Living Your Best Life
Self-love the perfect soil from which to grow love.
— Bryant McGill, Simple Reminders: Inspiration for Living Your Best Life
If you make it right with yourself, it will be right with the whole world.
— Bryant McGill, Simple Reminders: Inspiration for Living Your Best Life
We only truly understand what we experience.
— Bryant McGill, Simple Reminders: Inspiration for Living Your Best Life
Develop new stories from new positive experiences and relationships — the experiences of your emerging new self!
— Bryant McGill, Simple Reminders: Inspiration for Living Your Best Life
All of life and history is holding you on its shoulders so you can stretch one atom further.
— Bryant McGill, Simple Reminders: Inspiration for Living Your Best Life
You are your own essential ally. Get right with yourself.
— Bryant McGill, Simple Reminders: Inspiration for Living Your Best Life
Any good is good enough.
— Bryant McGill, Simple Reminders: Inspiration for Living Your Best Life
Brute force will sometimes get you through a challenge, but usually not without hurting and depleting yourself in the process.
— Bryant McGill, Simple Reminders: Inspiration for Living Your Best Life
Your past is like a bag of bricks; set it down and walk away. Quit collecting every painful word, memory and mistake. Collect hope.
— Bryant McGill, Simple Reminders: Inspiration for Living Your Best Life
You have to make the decision to let go of the past if you want to move forward.
— Bryant McGill, Simple Reminders: Inspiration for Living Your Best Life
Real humility knows how to slam a door closed and say no more. You can't be humble without self-love.
— Bryant McGill, Simple Reminders: Inspiration for Living Your Best Life
Beneath your burdensome regrets and who you think you are through the lens of past mistakes, there is someone beautiful who wants to emerge.
— Bryant McGill, Simple Reminders: Inspiration for Living Your Best Life
If you are really humble you will put yourself first when you need to take care of you.
— Bryant McGill, Simple Reminders: Inspiration for Living Your Best Life
Humility is not weak, powerless, faint, a pushover, a punching bag or an abuse magnet, because above all — humility cares.
— Bryant McGill, Simple Reminders: Inspiration for Living Your Best Life
Each person was meant to blossom into their own unique signature of greatness.
— Bryant McGill, Simple Reminders: Inspiration for Living Your Best Life
Real humility is graceful power, not a mandate to be victimized and abused.
— Bryant McGill, Simple Reminders: Inspiration for Living Your Best Life
Sometimes we may seem to be resisting letting go, when really, we just can't see a way to move forward — believing things can never change for someone as unworthy as us.
— Bryant McGill, Simple Reminders: Inspiration for Living Your Best Life
When we hold-on to someone's imperfections we become emotionally pair-bonded to their maladies.
— Bryant McGill, Simple Reminders: Inspiration for Living Your Best Life
The clearing is often only happening for us, and those who love us most cannot see or believe in our nascent visions.
— Bryant McGill, Simple Reminders: Inspiration for Living Your Best Life
Humility puts others first because "first" takes on new meaning through the practice of humility.
— Bryant McGill, Simple Reminders: Inspiration for Living Your Best Life
You are the first person who you should treat with humility. Respect yourself and let it overflow to others.
— Bryant McGill, Simple Reminders: Inspiration for Living Your Best Life
It is through our pain that we emerge.
— Bryant McGill, Simple Reminders: Inspiration for Living Your Best Life
In your tragedies you will find your most magnificent opportunities for rebirth.
— Bryant McGill, Simple Reminders: Inspiration for Living Your Best Life
What we want for others doesn't work unless they want it for themselves.
— Bryant McGill, Simple Reminders: Inspiration for Living Your Best Life
People who have had little self-reflection live life in a huge reality blind-spot.
— Bryant McGill, Simple Reminders: Inspiration for Living Your Best Life
Don't run from your pain — run into your pain.
— Bryant McGill, Simple Reminders: Inspiration for Living Your Best Life
If you relax your mind, it can begin working for you.
— Bryant McGill, Simple Reminders: Inspiration for Living Your Best Life
Act as though everything will be perfectly fine — because it will. Life has you and it's not letting you go.
— Bryant McGill, Simple Reminders: Inspiration for Living Your Best Life
Accept that you are not finished, and a new and better life is just beginning.
— Bryant McGill, Simple Reminders: Inspiration for Living Your Best Life
When you are broken open you get to discover for the first time what is inside you.
— Bryant McGill, Simple Reminders: Inspiration for Living Your Best Life
You are being guided when you need it most — if you will just listen.
— Bryant McGill, Simple Reminders: Inspiration for Living Your Best Life
Your total intelligence knows exactly what to do, because you were made to weather the storms of life.
— Bryant McGill, Simple Reminders: Inspiration for Living Your Best Life
Your greatest moments of challenge are a call to defy your timid habits of safety and rush out into life.
— Bryant McGill, Simple Reminders: Inspiration for Living Your Best Life
We are all made complete by our pain.
— Bryant McGill, Simple Reminders: Inspiration for Living Your Best Life
Everything in life will attack you if it senses your fear; animals, people — but faithful confidence wards off all manner of evil.
— Bryant McGill, Simple Reminders: Inspiration for Living Your Best Life
You are moving forward one way or another.
— Bryant McGill, Simple Reminders: Inspiration for Living Your Best Life
When the storm rips you to pieces, you get to decide how to put yourself back together again.
— Bryant McGill, Simple Reminders: Inspiration for Living Your Best Life
You have to have faith if you want to make it out of the woods. Faith is your only hope for deliverance.
— Bryant McGill, Simple Reminders: Inspiration for Living Your Best Life
If your options are closing-in around you and you feel panicked, scared and helpless, this is the time for action.
— Bryant McGill, Simple Reminders: Inspiration for Living Your Best Life
Accept that you can and will do what you must do, to take good care of yourself.
— Bryant McGill, Simple Reminders: Inspiration for Living Your Best Life
So stretch! Reach for it. Like falling down stairs, where your inner-genius takes over and saves you — your instincts are ready to serve you.
— Bryant McGill, Simple Reminders: Inspiration for Living Your Best Life
You have put yourself at risk to activate your instinctual genius.
— Bryant McGill, Simple Reminders: Inspiration for Living Your Best Life
Being broken open by the storm is your only hope.
— Bryant McGill, Simple Reminders: Inspiration for Living Your Best Life
Fear is always death. Faith is life. Have faith and your victory is assured.
— Bryant McGill, Simple Reminders: Inspiration for Living Your Best Life
Painful truth is better than a pleasant lie.
— Bryant McGill, Simple Reminders: Inspiration for Living Your Best Life
The further you are challenged and threatened, the more your warrior heart will emerge.
— Bryant McGill, Simple Reminders: Inspiration for Living Your Best Life
The truth only comes if you are willing to face some really unpleasant things about yourself.
— Bryant McGill, Simple Reminders: Inspiration for Living Your Best Life
Even the softest and sweetest heart was made by design for extreme battle.
— Bryant McGill, Simple Reminders: Inspiration for Living Your Best Life
To heal, you have to give yourself to the pain. You cannot avoid facing yourself your whole life.
— Bryant McGill, Simple Reminders: Inspiration for Living Your Best Life
Your soul has a resiliency and a capacity to endure suffering that is beyond anything you can imagine.
— Bryant McGill, Simple Reminders: Inspiration for Living Your Best Life
Fear is a prison where you are the jailer. Free yourself!
— Bryant McGill, Simple Reminders: Inspiration for Living Your Best Life
Big mistakes are an outstanding opportunity to showcase your ability to recover and have grace under pressure.
— Bryant McGill
The bigger the mistake the bigger the opportunity.
— Bryant McGill, Simple Reminders: Inspiration for Living Your Best Life
Most mistakes which seem huge in the heat of the moment are quickly forgotten.
— Bryant McGill, Simple Reminders: Inspiration for Living Your Best Life
Anything you want is just beyond your fear.
— Bryant McGill, Simple Reminders: Inspiration for Living Your Best Life
One of the fastest ways to move through your pain is to get a grip on reality.
— Bryant McGill, Simple Reminders: Inspiration for Living Your Best Life
When you truly face your pain you will only see yourself. Your fear was always you.
— Bryant McGill, Simple Reminders: Inspiration for Living Your Best Life
Real transformation requires real honesty. If you want to move forward — get real with yourself!
— Bryant McGill
When you are avoiding your pain you are really only avoiding your growth.
— Bryant McGill
The only end to your pain is through fully consuming it and digesting it, otherwise it will consume you.
— Bryant McGill, Simple Reminders: Inspiration for Living Your Best Life
Your pain was always a part of a plan to open your heart to love.
— Bryant McGill, Simple Reminders: Inspiration for Living Your Best Life
Your hard journey has had a great purpose!
— Bryant McGill, Simple Reminders: Inspiration for Living Your Best Life
The tides of change have great purpose in our lives.
— Bryant McGill, Simple Reminders: Inspiration for Living Your Best Life
Growth and empowerment requires reflection and facing the frightening, ugly, hard and unbearable reality.
— Bryant McGill, Simple Reminders: Inspiration for Living Your Best Life
The truth can do years of work in seconds.
— Bryant McGill, Simple Reminders: Inspiration for Living Your Best Life
Once you let the truth loose it is like setting a fire that you can't stop.
— Bryant McGill, Simple Reminders: Inspiration for Living Your Best Life
Let the fires of truth burn away your false life and your excuses, fears, blaming, doubts and illusions of insignificance.
— Bryant McGill, Simple Reminders: Inspiration for Living Your Best Life
The truth is, I can choose to view tough times as growing times, I can choose to see aging as seasoning and I can choose to focus on whatever good there is to be found in living. I choose. After all, it’s my point of view.
— Steve Goodier
The way surviving hard winters makes a tree grows stronger, the growth rings inside it tighter
— Haruki Murakami, Yesterday
Knowing your feelings won't change the facts, but knowing the facts can change your feelings.
— Marlene Chism, Stop Workplace Drama: Train Your Team to Have No Excuses, No Complaints, and No Regrets
Some of the most amazing people in the world were not perfect; they were scarred by suffering, hardships, losses and imperfections.
— Bryant McGill, Simple Reminders: Inspiration for Living Your Best Life
Allow your pain to cleanse you and burn away what needs to die.
— Bryant McGill, Simple Reminders: Inspiration for Living Your Best Life
A girl who truly knows herself is a girl everybody else wants to know
— Mandy Hale
Life peels us like an onion and every layer is softer and sweeter.
— Kristen Heitzmann, Secrets
If there is a soul, then it is a mistake to think that it is given to us completely created. It is created right here for a lifetime. Life is nothing but a long, painful process of creation.
— Eric Maisel, The Van Gogh Blues: The Creative Person's Path Through Depression
A thing worse than dying with nothing
—  is dying without purpose.
Because of pain you feel more and so you live more.
— Bryant McGill, Simple Reminders: Inspiration for Living Your Best Life
By your choices you reveal your commitments.
— Marlene Chism, Stop Workplace Drama: Train Your Team to Have No Excuses, No Complaints, and No Regrets
Every moment you are open, as a humble student, you are surrounded with infinite possibilities of choice.
— Bryant McGill, Simple Reminders: Inspiration for Living Your Best Life
You are the observer who watches your emotions as they push, pull and stretch you.
— Bryant McGill, Simple Reminders: Inspiration for Living Your Best Life
Your unstoppable nature is becoming and blooming — you simply, are. Go easy.
— Bryant McGill
Life is so big. Do not try to fill it. Instead, expand within. You are enough for you.
— Bryant McGill, Simple Reminders: Inspiration for Living Your Best Life
The art of surrender is the art of getting out of the way of your own growth.
— Bryant McGill, Simple Reminders: Inspiration for Living Your Best Life
God created all living things to bring forth seed, not reproduce shrines.
— Amy Layne Litzelman
Pain is as expansive as life itself. Pain grows with us and in us as a cultivation of life's unfolding.
— Bryant McGill, Simple Reminders: Inspiration for Living Your Best Life
If you want relief from pain just strive to touch more of every part of life.
— Bryant McGill
Our wounds are the only thing humbling enough to break our attachment to our false self.
— Richard Rohr, Adam's Return: The Five Promises of Male Initiation
You know you are truly alive, when you care for every living thing. One day soon, it will be the norm to view others not as competition, but gifts to share this gorgeous planet with, and we will not be able to imagine the loss of but one.
— Tom Althouse, The Frowny Face Cow
Truth in Christ is not a matter of being near or far like in martial arts when you strive for a black belt. He saves us then we grow
—  not the other way around.
4.07 WALK OF LIFEA candle without fire cannot be burning,Man without a spiritual life cannot be living,Yet sitting quietly and nothing even if doing,Spring will come and grass will be growing.[76]	- 4
— Munindra Misra, Eddies of Life
We do not handle suffering. Suffering handles us.
— Richard Rohr, Adam's Return: The Five Promises of Male Initiation
Purpose expresses most deeply what makes you a unique individual. Your purpose defines who you are, how you live your life and how you lead. Your purpose provides you with inner strength and drive to live and lead each day. It equips you with what you need to face the challenges of the day and of life. Your purpose provides context and meaning to your life.
— Thomas Narofsky
By eliminating choice there is in turn an elimination of growth. You must have a choice and in experiencing both the light and the dark you are given a wonderful opportunity to choose.
— Timothy Moran, The Twelve Messages of the Spiritual Heart: A Novel of Transformation
A child becomes an adult when he realizes that he has a right not only to be right but also to be wrong.
— Thomas Szasz, The Second Sin
I think we often hold heroines to an absurd standard. Be brave! Be wise! Always know what's in your heart and speak the truth of it! No and no and no. We fight to be brave. We learn to be wise. We struggle to know ourselves and voice what we want.
— Leigh Bardugo
Even if I knew that tomorrow the world would go to pieces, I would still plant my apple tree
— Martin Luther King Jr.
The truths Phaedrus began to pursue were lateral truths; no longer the frontal truths of science, those toward which the discipline pointed, but the kind of truth you see laterally, out of the corner of your eye. In a laboratory situation, when your whole procedure goes haywire, when everything goes wrong or is indeterminate or is so screwed up by unexpected results you can't make head or tail out of anything, you start looking laterally. That's a word he later used to describe a growth of knowledge that doesn't move forward like an arrow in flight, but expands sideways, like an arrow enlarging in flight, or like the archer, discovering that although he has hit the bull's-eye and won the prize, his head is on a pillow and the sun is coming in the window. Lateral knowledge is knowledge that's from a wholly unexpected direction, from a direction that's not even understood as a direction until the knowledge forces itself upon one. Lateral truths point to the falseness of axioms and postulates underlying one's existing system of getting at truth.
— Robert M. Pirsig, Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance: An Inquiry Into Values
One of the secrets to life, Epiphany, is to find your gifts and focus on those. Leave your liabilities in the dust of the road not taken. The world is an imperfect place. Everyone struggles. Successful people see trials as growth experiences, rather than stumbling blocks. You have everything you need for success. You're a beautiful young woman, and you're strong, and you have a clever mind. If you let anyone convince you otherwise, you steal from yourself.
— Lisa Wingate, Dandelion Summer
Let me be content with myself to the degree that my capacity to serve others is present, yet discontent with myself to the degree that I may still like to grow in better service for others.
— Criss Jami, Killosophy
To her, it was like asking a butterfly what it remembered about being a caterpillar. She could fly now and nothing could touch her when she left the cocoon of her body behind at night.
— Thomm Quackenbush, Danse Macabre (Night's Dream, #2)
Seemingly insignificant choices are like seemingly trivial seeds. Once planted, they root and grow and spread into something tremendous. Imagine the prickly weeds some choices amount to over time and be careful not to plant them.
— Richelle E. Goodrich, Making Wishes
The wealthy and satisfied do not migrate, they stagnate.
— Louis L'Amour, Westward the Tide
Spirits arrive at this world in naked bodies, their purpose - to grow wings.
— Xue Yun
The “growing” we attribute to becoming more mature, could be more accurately described as “shrinking,” as we cut away the nonsense that emotionally weighs us down.
— Steve Maraboli, Unapologetically You: Reflections on Life and the Human Experience
For there is nothing like travel to heal a broken heart.
— Daniela I. Norris, On Dragonfly Wings: A Skeptic's Journey to Mediumship
[With comedy and wanting to make people laugh,] when you're a child, all you want is ANY kind of laugh. You get them to laugh, and great! - you've succeeded. And then it's "How FAST can I get them to laugh?" "How LONG can I get them to laugh?", "How HARD can I get them to laugh?". And then it becomes: "Can I laugh at something that makes them uncomfortable?", "Can I get them to laugh at something that challenges their beliefs?
— Jason Reitman
It's confusing when people who do not know me say they miss the old me. You know me merely through the lyrics I write and the pictures I've been in. There is no old or new Hayley. There is however an older Hayley. I'm 25 now. Good on me for living through all these years with a million people's judging eyes all over me and thinking they know me better.
— Hayley Williams
You are the only common denominator in everything that has happened to you in life, be it good or bad. To learn/grow from these experiences, you must accept the role you played in each of them. 
— A.C. Anderson
In a word, growth and improvement can come through pain and conflict.
— Abraham H. Maslow, Toward a Psychology of Being
It is one of those simple but beautiful paradoxes of life: When a person feels that he is truly accepted by another, as he is, then he is freed to move from there and to begin to think about how he wants to change, how we wants to grow, how he can become different, how he might become more of what he is capable of being.
— Thomas Gordon, Parent Effectiveness Training: The Proven Program for Raising Responsible Children
We need to be our own guide. We can live a much more peaceful and happy life if we think about positive growth of ourselves and others, and its effects on the universe." -Hina Hashmi
— Hina Hashmi, Your Life A Practical Guide to Happiness Peace and Fulfilment
The strongest and most mysterious weeds often have things to teach us.
— F.T. McKinstry, Ascarion
Are you green and growing or ripe and rotting?
— Ray Kroc
Mirrors have three purposes. To show you who you are. To show you who you were. And to show you who you want to be.
— Dan Pearce, Single Dad Laughing
It is only within the context of having properly developed your mind that you will be able to truly enjoy the achievement of your material values, including that of a more muscular body.
— Mike Mentzer
Love has no demand of us but to keep practicing, to do the next hard thing. Love says, Come dear. Take the next step.
— Anna White, Mended: Thoughts on Life, Love, and Leaps of Faith
Growth dwells not in standing one’s ground, anyone can do that. Personal growth comes from reaching past insecurities with a sincere effort to acquire an understanding that does not mirror your own.
— Carl Henegan, Darkness Left Undone
Small steps may appear unimpressive, but don't be deceived. They are the means by which perspectives are subtly altered, mountains are gradually scaled, and lives are drastically changed.
— Richelle E. Goodrich, Making Wishes
Happiness comes from striving to make tomorrow better than today and being at peace when yesterday was better than today as well.
— Dan Pearce, Single Dad Laughing
Sunlight reflecting from rippled windows greatly accelerates plant growth by up to three times normal rates.
— Steven Magee
Our challenges will probably always be with us but, as we go on our journey of development, we become more aware of them, we come to accept them more, and they have less power over us.
— Rebecca O'Dwyer - Centred Woman
Know your purpose and you can climb any mountain.
— Sascha Bosio
Nobody adores fertilizer. Nobody devotes their life to fertilizer (unless they own a fertilizer company). But, shit, you need it to grow the crops. The land is arid and dry without it, and trying to grow things is likely to be futile.
— Shellen Lubin
We are all entitled to make mistakes, but what separates a hero from a villain is how we learn from those mistakes. A villain will see his past as a weakness to be erased. A hero will see his past as experience, to be acknowledged and incorporated into the present.
— Mitch Rowland, Eternity's Reach
We are to love God most importantly so that we can grow to love people as he loved us, not so that we can feel more divine and worthy than the worldly.
— Criss Jami, Killosophy
The little flowers grew everywhere around the rocks, and no one had asked them to grow, or me to grow.
— Jack Kerouac, The Dharma Bums
We grow when the walls press in. We grow when life steals our control. We grow in darkness.
— Mary E. DeMuth, Everything: What You Give and What You Gain to Become Like Jesus
Sometimes we focus on the lyrics too much and forget to dance to the music.
— Alexa Anderson
Science is a field which grows continuously with ever expanding frontiers. Further, it is truly international in scope. Any particular advance has been preceded by the contributions of those from many lands who have set firm foundations for further developments. The Nobel awards should be regarded as giving recognition to this general scientific progress as well as to the individuals involved.Further, science is a collaborative effort. The combined results of several people working together is often much more effective than could be that of an individual scientist working alone.
— John Bardeen
I understand true life doesn't happen when I constantly gaze backwards, mulling over all the injustices others have done or I have done to others.
— Mary E. DeMuth, Thin Places: A Memoir
Science, like nothing else among the institutions of mankind, grows like a weed every year. Art is subject to arbitrary fashion, religion is inwardly focused and driven only to sustain itself, law shuttles between freeing us and enslaving us.
— Kary Mullis
It is a man's duty to have books. A library is not a luxury, but one of the necessaries in life.
— Henry Ward Beecher
If you don’t want your past to own you, try owning your past.
— Dan Pearce, Single Dad Laughing
Perhaps I occasionally sought to give, or inadvertently gave, to the student a sense of battle on the intellectual battlefield. If all you do is to give them a faultless and complete and uninhabited architectural masterpiece, then you do not help them to become builders of their own.
— Carl-Gustaf Rossby
Growth and change were viewed as reactions to conditions met
— Gregory Maguire, Son of a Witch
You can't have all the answers now or you could never grow from making a choice. If you want to grow, you must face adversity and make decisions without having all the answers.
— Eric Buffington, Stones of Power Book 1
We can position ourselves to receive God's promises, but it will take a lot of stretching, moving, breaking and changing!
— Alisa Hope Wagner, Eve of Awakening
The Holy Spirit builds on the smooth ground of humility. That's why God will tear you down in order to build you back up.
— Alisa Hope Wagner, Eve of Awakening
With the right MINDSET, you can Survive, Thrive & Grow... Even in the Midst of turbulence and change
— Tony Dovale
The foundation of all long-term success lies in building a Resilient and Growth oriented MINDSET.
— Tony Dovale
21st Century Managers must change their thinking because they are now in the business of managing Mindsets & thinking, which impacts actions and behaviors.
— Tony Dovale
Even the best Mindset will become contaminated and eventually blunted in a toxic organisational culture.
— Tony Dovale
I not only want to understand God's revelations, I want to be changed by them.
— Alisa Hope Wagner, Eve of Awakening
Our desire to grow, to make a place for ourselves… to know we have counted in the lives of others, is healthy and necessary to our existence…
— Kitt Weagant, Each Day a New Beginning: Daily Meditations for Women
Have you heard of the most evil things done by people in their lifetime? They have coveted men's wives, killed hundreds of Christians and sold their best friend's life away for just a few coins. Isn't it interesting that they were God's chosen in the bible? ---Saul, Judas & King David
— Shannon L. Alder
I am just a guy, doing my best to be the best person I can be.And, every once in a while, I fuck up the moment I’m in.Please. Get over it. Get over yourselves. Get over this weird need to be morally superior to me and to the other people in this world.And let me be imperfect. I assure you, my imperfections drive me to improve.Let me love myself. I assure you, loving myself despite my faults will only make me a better person.Let me be my own judge. I assure you, I’ll be more fair and just than you ever will.Let me be the owner of my own intentions. I assure you, there isn’t another soul on earth who knows what my real intentions are but me.Love and acceptance despite ongoing and glaring imperfection is all I’ve ever tried to attain with this blog. For me. For you. For everyone. And I’ll never stop.
— Dan Pearce, Single Dad Laughing
When we are listened to, it creates us, makes us unfold and expand. Ideas actually begin to grow within us and come to life.
— Brenda Ueland
Herein lies the beauty of the flaw: that a shortcoming is a spiritual sign that says "Look! There is a perfect opportunity right here to grow and become better!" But instead of seeing those signs, people instead look and see something that is no longer worthy. Whether it be about themselves or about others. And so we have it that there are a great number of individuals who are missing out on great chances to improve themselves and to also believe in others.
— C. JoyBell C.
I flourish when I realize I'm already complete.
— Vironika Tugaleva, The Love Mindset: An Unconventional Guide to Healing and Happiness
It's like the seasons. When they start, you're one kind of person, and then when they end, you're somebody different.
— Chris Coppernoll, A Beautiful Fall
It has always been a mystery to me how Adam, Eve, and the serpent were taught the same language. Where did they get it? We know now, that it requires a great number of years to form a language; that it is of exceedingly slow growth. We also know that by language, man conveys to his fellows the impressions made upon him by what he sees, hears, smells and touches. We know that the language of the savage consists of a few sounds, capable of expressing only a few ideas or states of the mind, such as love, desire, fear, hatred, aversion and contempt. Many centuries are required to produce a language capable of expressing complex ideas. It does not seem to me that ideas can be manufactured by a deity and put in the brain of man. These ideas must be the result of observation and experience.
— Robert G. Ingersoll, Some Mistakes of Moses
To live is to grow.
— Vironika Tugaleva, The Love Mindset: An Unconventional Guide to Healing and Happiness
The doing and the daring are the magic keys to unlocking the treasure chest.
— Reba Linker, Follow the Yarn: The Knitting Wit & Wisdom of Ann Sokolowski
Any factor that breeds polarization will worsen policy, and thus cause lower growth.
— William Easterly, The Elusive Quest for Growth: Economists' Adventures and Misadventures in the Tropics
Sometimes the greatest difference between being a boy and being a man is restraint.
— Dave Donovan, The Gift
Age doesn't determine maturity. It's the depth of life that does, not its duration.
— Innocent Mwatsikesimbe
Get your "MENTAL" weight up, it stays FOREVER, money has no staying power!
— L. Michelle
Innovative solutions to new challenges seldom come from familiar places
— Gyan Nagpal, Talent Economics: The Fine Line Between Winning and Losing the Global War for Talent
You can't rest on yesterday's growth. You must be dedicated to growing today... and every day.
— Jim George, A Young Man After God's Own Heart
Salvation is for sinners
— Ricky Maye, Barefoot Christianity
Our failures make us who we are; they build our character, we are defined by what we do with them, and how we respond to adversity. Without failure there is no growth, no striving for better, no adjusting, or dusting yourself off to try again.
— J.W. Lord
Most revolutions start small and simmer under the surface gathering strength, adding to an ideology, gaining favourable opinion- first as acredible alternative and then as the majority view
— Gyan Nagpal, Talent Economics: The Fine Line Between Winning and Losing the Global War for Talent
In the progressive growth of astronomy, physics or mechanical science was developed, and when this had been, to a certain degree, successfully cultivated, it gave birth to the science of chemistry.
— Justus von Liebig, Familiar Letters on Chemistry
The brain cannot learn without wondering, listening, and making connections while your myelin part of your brain develops and grows" ― Sage Canny
— Sage Canny
When we justify a flaw we are actually inventing a new one. When a woman neglects developing her own character, she not only chisels away her own reputation, but the reputation of everyone in her household.pg 48
— Michael Ben Zehabe, Song of Songs The Book for Daughters
Do you want to change?" "It's the only evidence of life.
— Evelyn Waugh, Brideshead Revisited: The Sacred and Profane Memories of Captain Charles Ryder
Growth is never an event, it's a process.
— Ifeanyi Enoch Onuoha, Overcoming the Challenges of Life
Cadets can neither be treated as schoolboys or soldiers.
— Robert E. Lee
Promises, like gardens need weeding from time to time to produce healthy results.
— Soul Dancer, Pay Me What I'm Worth
My cup was already brimming before I met him —after it runneth over.
— Erica Goros, The Daisy Chain
The truth hurts, only when it can heal.
— Rob Liano
Maybe I'll understand today when tomorrow comes.
— Kirn Hans, Behind My Mask
Like the bud of a flower, change forces you to surrender to growth. It makes you vulnerable. It requires you to enlarge, expand and become bigger. Like the oxygen provided with each breath, we are denied its benefits until we relax and breathe in.
— Stella Payton
No business can continue to shrink. That can only go on for so long before irrelevancy sets in.
— Jeff Bezos
Succeeding in life and business is like falling in love with your wife (for those of you that are married). You can’t leave your wife at the mercy of another man and feel safe.
— Nkem Paul
It may be easier to believe that we remain lean because we're virtuous and we get fat because we're not, but the evidence simply says otherwise. Virtue has little more to with our weight than our height. When we grow taller, it's hormones and enzymes that are promoting growth, and we consume more calories than we expend as a result. Growth is the cause - increased appetite and decreased energy expenditure (gluttony and sloth) are the effects. When we grow fatter, the same is true as well.We don't get fat because we overeat; we overeat because were fat.
— Gary Taubes, Why We Get Fat: And What to Do About It
For business and life, if you are not experiencing growth, you’re possibly dying.
— Nkem Paul, The Art of Achievement and Fulfillment: Fundamental Principles to Overcome Obstacles and Turn Dreams Into Reality!
The name Aziza is of Arabic origin and means precious. I call her Sitti, the Arabic village word for my grandmother. Although Sitti stands true to her name, someone is always telling her she isn’t precious. As she grows into womanhood, Sitti hides from her thoughts, her voice, and her own shadow. She doesn’t want to draw attention to herself, not even from the rays of sun that bless the entire land. But no one looks at an olive tree and asks it why it hides its fruit. It blossoms when it’s ready and under the right conditions. As Sitti grows up, it did not occur to her that this could be the case for herself.
— Sadiqua Hamdan, Happy Am I. Holy Am I. Healthy Am I.
New ideas leave the old ones shaking in their shoes, don't they?
— Suzanne Hayes, I'll Be Seeing You
Women are often belittled for trying to resurrect these men and bring them back to life and to love. They are in a world that would be even more alienated and violent if caring women did not do the work of teaching men who have lost touch with themselves how to love again. This labor of love is futile only when the men in question refuse to awaken, refuse growth. At this point it is a gesture of self-love for women to break their commitment and move on.
— bell hooks, All About Love: New Visions
The hard things in life, the things you really learn from, happen with a clear mind.
— Caroline Knapp, Drinking: A Love Story
Occasionally, events in one's life become clearer through the prism of experience, a phrase which simply means that things tend to be clearer as time goes on. For instance, when a person is just born, they usually have no idea what curtains are and spend a great deal of their first months wondering why on earth Mommy and Daddy have hung large pieces of cloth over each window in the nursery. But as the person grows older, the idea of curtains becomes clearer through the prism of experience. The person will learn the word "curtains" and notice that they are actually quite handy for keeping a room dark when it is time to sleep, and for decorating an otherwise boring window area. Eventually, they will entirely accept the idea of curtains of their own, or venetian blinds, and it is all due to the prism of experience.
— Lemony Snicket, The Austere Academy
I was an abusive, selfish, needy, angry asshole. Now I'm just kind of selfish, a little less angry, occasionally needy, with flights of asshole. I've grown.
— Marc Maron, Attempting Normal
The widespread assumption that ethical behavior takes the fun out of life is false. In actuality, living ethically ensures that relationships in our lives, including encounters with strangers, nurture our spiritual growth.
— bell hooks, All About Love: New Visions
To say, “I’ve been converted and that’s that,” is to say you have decided to quit growing. If life is about anything, it is about growing. The day I quit changing and learning is the day I die.
— Steve Goodier
Through my history's despiteand ruin, I have cometo its remainder, and herehave made the beginningof a farm intended to becomemy art of being here.By it I would instructmy wants: they should belongto each other and to this place.Until my song comes hereto learn its words, my artis but the hope of song.(Part 2 from History is Clearing, p 174)
— Wendell Berry, The Collected Poems, 1957-1982
There is nothing greater in this world then love. Many things in this world have limits and expiration dates, but love is constant and everywhere. More important, it can take many forms and even when we lose those we care about, their love continues as long as we are open to receiving and reciprocating that love. Don't let the physical world dictate who you are and how to act, open your mind to something greater and as a result you will always find peace within your heart.
— Jonathan Kuiper, Our Place by the Sea
Growing up is childish.
— Mokokoma Mokhonoana
Growth is achieved when truth is revealed.
— Molly Friedenfeld, The Book of Simple Human Truths
What others are doing or accomplishing is irrelevant to your growth.
— Janet Gallagher Nestor, Nurturing Wellness Through Radical Self-Care: A Living in Balance Guide and Workbook
Big oaks grow from small acorns, and activity is a precursor to accomplishment. You don't think yourself into success.
— Mark Sanborn, Fred 2.0: New Ideas on How to Keep Delivering Extraordinary Results
Without education … what is man but a splendid slave, a reasoning savage vacillating between the dignity of an intelligence derived from God and the degradation of passion participated with brutes…
— Chukwudifu Oputa
Every interaction presents an opportunity for growth, one of the keys to our limitless potential.
— Simon Boylan
Usually when your imagination is bigger then one's comprehension, this normally means you've out grown the small circle. Get with like-mined people and go after your vision.By T-cupp
— Takina Cupp
Inspiration is born when our passion becomes greater than our fear.
— Terri Frey Maxwell
When it comes to your talent, translate the intangible into the tangible.
— Don Maruska, Take Charge of Your Talent: Three Keys to Thriving in Your Career, Organization, and Life
The child is father of the man….attributed to Sigmund Freud, but believed to have been coined by a well-known poet years before Freud's time
— Shirl Solomon, Knowing Your Child Through His Handwriting and Drawings
Take 5" is the practice if spending 5 minutes a day giving focused attention to your hopes for your talent.
— Don Maruska, Take Charge of Your Talent: Three Keys to Thriving in Your Career, Organization, and Life
Consciously or unconsciously, most theists see in gods and devils, heaven and hell, reward and punishment, a whip to lash the people into obedience, meekness and contentment.... The philosophy of atheism expresses the expansion and growth of the human mind. The philosophy of theism, if we can call it a philosophy, is static and fixed.
— Emma Goldman
For growth to happen it is necessary to get your BUT out of the way.
— Jay Perry
I don’t believe in the Law of Attraction. There were things I wanted in my life that no amount of positive thinking was going to make it a reality for me. However, I have learned to believe in the Law of Tough Love. Life has thrown a dozen tragedies at me. I did what any Christian would do--prayed for the outcome I wanted, but God was tough and only gave me what I needed. I now realize that life is not about fulfilling a wish list; rather a need list. Good and bad experiences are on the horizon. How else does a person change, grow and evolve? And just like any warrior woman, I won’t simply survive-- but thrive!
— Shannon L. Alder
Rather than going after these walls and barriers with a sledgehammer, we pay attention to them. With gentleness and honesty, we move closer to those walls. We touch them, and smell them and get to know them well. We become familiar with the strategies and beliefs we use to build these walls: what are the stories we tell ourselves? What repels me and what attracts me? Without calling what we see right or wrong, we simply look as objectively as we can. We can observe ourselves with humor, not getting overly serious, moralistic or uptight about the investigation. Year after year, we train in remaining open and receptive to whatever arises. Slowly, very slowly, the cracks in the walls seem to widen and, as if by magic, bodhichitta is able to flow freely.
— Pema Chödrön, The Places That Scare You: A Guide to Fearlessness in Difficult Times
People are never able to outperform their self-image.
— John C. Maxwell, The 15 Invaluable Laws of Growth: Live Them and Reach Your Potential
If we're growing, we're always going to be out of our comfort zone.
— John C. Maxwell
Nothing is more foreign than the world of one's childhood when one has truly left it.
— Pär Lagerkvist, The Sibyl
Our love is sharpened by the stone of our challenges and strengthened by the struggles of our growth.
— Steve Maraboli, Unapologetically You: Reflections on Life and the Human Experience
I think that one's art is a growth inside one. I do not think one can explain growth. It is silent and subtle. One does not keep digging up a plant to see how it grows.
— Emily Carr
It's not surprising, therefore, that the [Bisy] Backson thinks of progress in terms of fighting and overcoming. One of his little idiosyncrasies, you might say. Of course, real progress involves growing and developing, which involves changing inside, but that's something the inflexible Backson is unwilling to do.
— Benjamin Hoff, The Tao of Pooh
There is no such thing as the perfect relationship. You can however, create a relationship which is perfect. Perfection comes from your commitment to being a teacher and a student. Being as curious and playful as children. Having the maturity of an adult, and being a friend, partner, and lover. Perfection often comes from imperfection. So, embrace the challenges and learn to grow together, not apart….
— James A. Murphy, The Waves of Life Quotes and Daily Meditations
No one ever said your life would be easy. The nature of being human makes life for all of us a challenge. The most important thing to consider here is this. Your life is only as challenging as you think it is. Think of challenge as a teacher and yourself the student. It's up to you to figure out what the lesson is to be learned. To learn that lesson and build the strength and courage to face other challenges….
— James A. Murphy, The Waves of Life Quotes and Daily Meditations
Status quo or grow: You are in control of your future.
— Mary Mihalic, Made to Make It
Just as a fish doesn't know it is wet, so companies often can't see or feel the very opportunities where they are swimming
— Pam  Henderson, Killing Ideas - You can kill an idea, you can't kill an opportunity
Never make someone a priority when they only see you as an option.
— Mary Mihalic, Made to Make It
Being present here and now is the highest compliment you can pay to a woman in your life.
— Lada Ray
Build Bridges NOT Walls!
— Stacey A. Rowcliffe, Female Fusion Different Flowers from the Same Garden!
We grow from our dreams.
— Dejan Stojanovic
Outer relationships with a man or a woman are a mirror of the relationship between our own inner man and woman. Embracing our own inner man and woman means to understand the inner drama that happens between our male and female aspects, which manifests on the outside as relationships.
— Swami Dhyan Giten, The Silent Whisperings of the Heart - An Introduction to Giten's Approach to Life
When we have developed a trust in both our inner man and woman and they can nourish, support, communicate and cooperate with each other, a love begins to flow between them.
— Swami Dhyan Giten, The Silent Whisperings of the Heart - An Introduction to Giten's Approach to Life
Growth occurs unabated free of obstacles.
— Phil Wohl
Growth happens slowly, slow down today enjoy life without been in hurry
— Martin Suarez
Education does not take place when you learn something you did not know before. Education is your ability to use what you have learned to be better today than you were yesterday.
— Iyanla Vanzant
There is a wide world out there, full of pain, but filled with joy as well. The former keeps you on the path of growth and the latter makes the journey tolerable.
— R.A. Salvatore, Sojourn
Very early, I knew that the only object in life was to grow.
— Margaret Fuller
Our torments also may in length of timeBecome our Elements.
— John Milton, Paradise Lost
There is wisdom in turning as often as possible from the familiar to the unfamiliar: it keeps the mind nimble, it kills prejudice, and it fosters humor.
— George Santayana
They seemed no closer to the tops of the peaks that rose before them. It was only by looking back, to the forest far below, that she knew they'd climbed.
— Kristin Cashore, Graceling