c2p-cmd/Good-Quotes-Authors huggingface dataset:
We start the day demotivated & tired due to our inability to bring joy & excitement to our working environment. Most of the days are exact reflection of previous days, & we become slaves to our routines. We do whatever is necessary, keep following the old successful formula - think for today & to justify our actions, surround ourselves with yes-men, block every new idea which challenges our intellect & avoid every action which requires a change in our routine. Soon our approach to work becomes so stationary that catching-up with growth becomes an impossible task
— Shahenshah Hafeez Khan
As the expert in knowing yourself, you get to decide what you want to explore in your internal landscape.
— Lyssa Danehy deHart, StoryJacking: Change Your Inner Dialogue, Transform Your Life
Rejoice in small things and they will continue to grow
— Slaven Vujic
If somebody tells you a rule, break it. That's the only thing to move things forward.
— Hans Zimmer
The moment you can visualize being free from the things that hold you back, you have indeed begun to set yourself free
— Unknown
You will never get what you've never had if you never do what you've never done
— Unknownimous
You grow only when you groom someone to take your position.
— Tapan Ghosh, Faceless The Only Way Out
But I'm tired of coming out. All I ever do is come out. I try not to change,but I keep changing, in all these tiny ways ..... And every freaking time, I have to reintroduce myself to the universe all over again.
— Becky Albertalli, Simon vs. the Homo Sapiens Agenda
Life is a progression of becoming who we are.
— J.R. Rim
Good dreams don't have to fade upon waking. We each hold in ourselves the best of all of us, and the worst. Change happens every day. We who go to bed at night are not the we who woke up. The you of tomorrow may not recognize the you of today, but wouldn't it be a shame if you don't recognize who you're going to be?Your mind is powerful. Use it to stretch the edges of yourself, find the loops that keep you in place and introduce something new, or take something out. Change happens every day. It's what separates the animate from the inanimate, the plant from the stone. The moment you stop changing is the moment you stop being alive.All living things grow, but only physically. To be human is to grow mentally, emotionally. You are not the you of yesterday, let alone yesteryear. From the worst of us to the best, each has grown, and each can grow more. The moment you stop growing is the moment you stop exemplifying that which is uniquely human. Change happens every day. When you change, you can change back. You can cut away who you were and start anew, and then do it again in reverse. But when you grow, you build on who you were. You cannot unknow what you make a part of you, what you keep of yourself. There is no going back: only forward. Only upwards. Only outwards.Everything in you is a tool you can wield. We each can create the reason behind everything in our lives. Change happens every day. When you apply a reason for the good in you, the bad in you, you plot a map that your future self will walk. Choice is more than an action in a moment. Choice is an attitude in a lifetime.Change happens every day. Choose to grow.
— Daystar Eld
As Linus grew into his teens, became even more awkward, with long, gangly arms and odd ginger hairs sprouting from his spotty chin, Georgiana blossomed into a beautiful child, beloved of all on the estate. She brought a smile to the face of even the most hardened tenants, farmers who hadn't had a kind word for the Montrachet family in years would send baskets of apples to the kitchen for Miss Georgiana to enjoy.
— Kate Morton, The Forgotten Garden
Sometimes caring for something already growing is more perilous than planting something new.
— Rachel Joyce
Wherever the shadow of economic growth touches us, we are left useless unless employed on a job or engaged in consumption...We lose sight of our resources, lose control over the environmental conditions which make these resources applicable, lose taste for self-reliant coping with challenges from without and anxiety from within.
— Ivan Illich, The Right to Useful Unemployment and Its Professional Enemies
To be what it takes for truly being is the most profound skill among all that exists in any form
— Manas A Datta
Life growth is like muscle growth, you have to stretch beyond, feed it properly and rest. When you meditate, rest and reflect is when growth happens!!!!
— Harrish Sairaman
It is in building the best of our abilities that we ultimately destroy the worst of our liabilities.
— Craig D. Lounsbrough
The best way for you to grow is to sack yourself.
— Haresh Sippy
If you remain dependent on your parents all your life, do not carry a wrong pretence that you are even born.
— Sandeep Sahajpal
[A man] finds in himself a talent which with the help of some culture might make him a useful man in many respects. But he finds himself in comfortable circumstances and prefers to indulge in pleasure rather than to take pains in enlarging and improving his happy natural capacities. He asks, however, whether his maxim of neglect of his natural gifts, besides agreeing with his inclination to indulgence, agrees also with what is called duty. He sees then that a system of nature could indeed subsist with such a universal law, [where] men... let their talents rest and resolve to devote their lives merely to idleness, amusement, and propagation of their species - in a word, to enjoyment; but he cannot possibly will that this should be a universal law of nature, or be implanted in us as such by a natural instinct. For, as a rational being, he necessarily wills that his faculties be developed, since they serve him, and have been given him, for all sorts of possible purposes.
— Immanuel Kant, Fundamental Principles of the Metaphysic of Morals
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 be regarded.
— Immanuel Kant, Fundamental Principles of the Metaphysic of Morals: & the Metaphysical Elements of Ethics
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 themselves afresh outside of their own body.
— Jeanette Winterson, Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit
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 North, as well as the person who ran away. Perhaps for a while these two selves have been confused. I have not gone forward or back in time, but across in time, to something I might have been, playing itself out.
— Jeanette Winterson, Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit
The thing is, incremental daily progress (negative or positive) is what actually causes transformation. A figurative drip, drip, drip. Showing up, every single day, gaining in strength, organizing for the long haul, building connection, laying track — this subtle but difficult work is how culture changes.
— Seth Godin
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 two realities. There is so much pain here.
— Jeanette Winterson
Obstacles are there to give you more opportunities to grow and excel in life.
— Seema Brain Openers
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 all worth it.
— Avina Celeste
You need not have any motivation but the motivation to overpower your mind.
— Avina Celeste
Give to grow. Read to lead. Smile to celebrate.
— Seema Brain Openers
Dialogue with the self is the source of all insight and insight is the only thing that can change your life.
— Oli Anderson, Dialogue / Ego - Real Communication
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.
— Seema Brain Openers
Most arguments are about programming
—  most resolutions are reached through a process of unlearning then relearning.
People assume that repetition is always a static thing, but I beg to differ. Repetition is just as often the complete opposite of that: or a sign of rapid personal growth. In this repetition manifests one's ability to go on experiencing again the very same thing from a different perspective and in a brand-new light.
— Criss Jami
Curiosity is a worthwhile virtue than certainty. While the former leads to grow, the latter muzzles your growth and results in stagnation...
— Assegid Habtewold, The 9 Cardinal Building Blocks: For Continued Success in Leadership
Dialogue can help you find out if you’ve been brainwashed or not.
— Oli Anderson, Dialogue / Ego - Real Communication
Don’t worry if love is not a perfect fairytale—it should be fun and exciting, but not without a few hiccups. Love won't be without hardships or disappointment, without sacrifice or sorrow, because love cannot be without faith and growth.Marry someone that you want to make happy, that you want to serve, and that you want to share everything with, someone that you want to make laugh, someone that you want to hold.One of the biggest problems in a relationship is people feeling scared to give someone access to their unguarded heart, which is silly because in reality it is quite the opposite, there is a safety and enabling power in being honest and open.
— Michael Brent Jones, Dinner Party: Part 2
You go through so many changes as a child, then you grow up and discover that none of that stuff mattered, except for the impression it made on your mind.
— Joan Walton Collaso
I felt the pain and the glory of growth, was straining and shuddering with it.
— Nnedi Okorafor, Home
I carry inside myself my earlier faces, as a tree contains its rings.
— Tomas Tranströmer, Memories Look at Me: A Memoir
The most important result of the efforts of a man is the effort of self-development and continuous growth
— Sunday Adelaja
Never feel sorry for me, just teach me and watch me grow.
— Jonathan Anthony Burkett
Great hardship always seems to be the prerequisite to meaningful spiritual growth.
— James Castleton, MD, Mending of a Broken Heart
Maturity is the ability to see what is important and what is not.
— Vatsal Surti
It's very simple. As you grow, you learn more. If you stayed twenty-two, you'd always be as ignorant as you were at twenty-two. Aging is not just decay, you know. It's growth. It's more than the negative that you're going to die, it's also the positive that you understand you're going to die, and that you live a better life because of it.
— Mitch Albom, Tuesdays with Morrie
The ability to cultivate the land is the growth of any nation.
— Sunday Adelaja
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 where a man may be at this moment; the point is whether he is growing. The next point will be, whether he is growing at the ratio given him. The key to the whole thing is _obedience_, and nothing else.
— George MacDonald, Mary Marston
Reinvention is no rushed religion.
— Erica Alex
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 of guilt makes people try to be better. But anexcessive sense of guilt, a tendency to blame ourselves for things which are clearly not our fault, robs us of our self-esteem andperhaps of our capacity to grow and to act.
— Harold S. Kushner, When Bad Things Happen to Good People
How can be any improvement and growth in slavery?? Don't waste yourself in jobs ...People putting all of their efforts and trying to satisfy their "BOSS" by filling his pockets by giving all of their lives, time and energies to someone else‘s dream, with the expectation of a delusional growth in income and designation with the passage of time. There is no growth in boundaries; growth is in freedom not in slavery…..It only makes you so ordinary and small in your own eye & when you are nothing to your own self you become nothing to anyone...
— Mohsin Ali Shaukat
You never know what’s going to be in the garden in June when you’re looking at it in January.
— Corey Ann Haydu, The Careful Undressing of Love
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 trying to fit their broken edges against another person’s and call themselves whole and healed. The only problem with this, of course, is that expecting anyone else to fix you is an unequivocal disaster.You can't wait for a man to come around and put you back together. You have to put yourself back together first, and become the kind of woman who deserves a good man.
— Julie   Johnson, The Someday Girl
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 sheltered- man within you. You are the equal of the musician composing his music, of the physicist extending the frontier of knowledge…you have reached an altitude where all loves are of the same stuff.
— Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, Wind, Sand and Stars
Rust may never sleep, but then, neither does moss.
— Brian Awehali
If you think that growth means perfection, let me assure you, it does not! You do not need to be perfect; instead, strive to be honest, admit to failures, learn to ask for and to give forgiveness, love and allow yourself to be loved. Accept and even celebrate differences in others; their “No Excuses” mindsets may look and function a bit differently than yours, but that is okay!
— Farshad Asl, The "No Excuses" Mindset: A Life of Purpose, Passion, and Clarity
Growth is only possible in an environment that is consistent, intentional, and positive. This is not an event; instead, growth happens daily, not in a day.
— Farshad Asl, The "No Excuses" Mindset: A Life of Purpose, Passion, and Clarity
Perfection is dangerous. It leaves no room for range.
— Natasha Tsakos
Enthusiastic people take action rather than setting up roadblocks or distractions. What helps grow enthusiasm and build momentum is having a clear vision of what motivates you, which will help you remain focused.
— Farshad Asl, The "No Excuses" Mindset: A Life of Purpose, Passion, and Clarity
To be fruitful is to understand the process of growth
— Sunday Adelaja
What do you do if you've got everything?There's only one thing you can do. More.
— Pete Waterman
Now, it may surprise you to learn that in His efforts to get permanent possession of a soul, [God] relies on the troughs even more than on the peaks; some of His special favorites have gone through longer and deeper troughs than anyone else... It is during such trough periods, much more than during the peak periods, that it is growing into the sort of creature He wants it to be... He wants them to learn to walk and must therefore take away His hand; and if only the will to walk is really there He is pleased even with their stumbles.
— C.S. Lewis, The Screwtape Letters
There is a lot of negativity and bad habits that just need to be cut out of our lives. Sometimes we hold on tightly to the things that are actually causing us a lot of pain. We are our own worst enemy. We cling to all the wrong things. We subconsciously do things that are very bad for us, the worst being that we tell ourselves every day that “we’re not good enough” and “it’s our fault”. Well cut it out!
— S.R. Crawford, From My Suffering: 25 Ways to Break the Chains of Anxiety, Depression & Stress
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.
— Willa Cather, The Selected Letters
If we contest with a lesser opponent, we reduce ourselves, and in the process wind up being lesser accomplished.
— Sandeep Sahajpal
So much learning," one of my Jesuit teachers has said, "so little wisdom." To put it another way, a civilization does become more technologically skilled and more learned about science, and perhaps even a little smarter as well, when it is permitted to grow for hundreds of years and spread itself from pole to pole; but we also have more tools to turn out as badly as our ancestors said we might.
— Charles Pellegrino, Ghosts of the Titanic
Knowing another is endless...The thing to be known grows with the knowing.
— Nan Shepherd
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.
— S.R. Crawford, From My Suffering: 25 Ways to Break the Chains of Anxiety, Depression & Stress
This doesn't mean that we stop helping people set goals or that we stop expecting people to grow and change. It means that we stop respecting and evaluating people based on what we think they should accomplish, and start respecting them for who they are and holding them accountable for what they're actually doing. It means that we stop loving people for who they could be and start loving them for who they are. It means that sometimes when we're beating ourselves up, we need to stop and say to that harassing voice inside, "Man, I'm doing the very best I can right now.
— Brené Brown, Rising Strong
Growth is the sum of small efforts repeated daily. Commit yourself to take 5 DAILY ACTIONS that would move your goal towards completion.
— Farshad Asl
If you want innovation, growth, and culture, invest in people, not technology. Technology can't lead, love, or connect.
— Farshad Asl
Time is an insane concept
—  to think we can live untouched by it is an inane concept.
Your environment should not restrict your growth. Your atmosphere will impact your sprit, mind and body. The right one can make a world of difference in your life and the life of all within your world. Create a growth environment to grow consistently and to impact many around you
— Farshad Asl
In the art and act of mastering, a mistake is a common thing, but it must always shape something and it must always give a distinctive reason for action!
— Ernest Agyemang Yeboah
...The happy Warrior... 'tis, finally, the man, who, lifted high, conspicuous object in a nation's eye, or left unthought-of in obscurity, who, with a toward or untoward lot, prosperous or adverse, to his wish or not plays, in the many games of life, that one where what he most doth value must be won: whom neither shape or danger can dismay, nor thought of tender happiness betray; who, not content that former worth stand fast, looks forward, persevering to the last, from well to better, daily self-surpast: who, whether praise of him must walk the earth for ever, and to noble deeds give birth, or he must fall, to sleep without his fame, and leave a dead unprofitable name finds comfort in himself and in his cause; and, while the mortal mist is gathering, draws his breath in confidence of Heaven's applause: this is the happy Warrior; this is he that every man in arms should wish to be.
— William Wordsworth, Character of the Happy Warrior
Stories are made about girls like you. The wild ones, those rare faces that smile in the midst of chaos.
— Nikki Rowe
She was drawn to the wild warriors, they had to have a little gypsy in their veins.
— Nikki Rowe
The human carries the formation of the whole universe in him. The time, he begins to realize his own identity, slowly the nature of the universe is revealed to him.
— Roshan Sharma
One thing that needs to carry in your pocket, all the time, by going through all the different experiences of life, either on spiritual or religious path or with your daily life is that, unless you experience yourself as God, there are more steps to cover ahead, on the journey called life.
— Roshan Sharma
Don’t be the person who has an overflowing cup of knowledge but an inactive state of action. That serves no-one, that serves no purpose.
— Tony Curl
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 their hearts, or they drug or drink themselves numb until they don’t’ feel anything anymore. The irony is, in the end their escape becomes more painful than what they’re avoiding.
— Richard Paul Evans
Every setback is an opportunity to grow.
— Kevin J. Donaldson
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 responsibility of the mentee to seek mentorship and appropriate it.
— Josh Hatcher, Manlihood: The 12 Pillars of Masculinity
What books can you read to learn about this part of your life? What people do you need to confide in to grow deeper? What things do you need to stop doing in order to grow? What things do you need to start doing?
— Josh Hatcher, Manlihood: The 12 Pillars of Masculinity
To realize your potential you must look beyond the end of yourself, realizing that where you end is most likely where you actually begin.
— Craig D. Lounsbrough
It had only taken me six years to change from a ten-year-old to a sixteen-year-old
—  surely six years wasn't long enough for a transformation of that magnitude.
Many people have stopped growing. When you stop growing, you stop living. Many have stopped living and now just bide their time before it becomes official.
— Tony Curl, Seriously Simple Stuff to Get You Unstuck
To understand how growth, aging and death works, you must understand the radiation environment.
— Steven Magee
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 we are, we exist in the present moment with a lifetime of growth behind us. I have loved many vehicles throughout the years, Jiu Jitsu more than any other, but the vehicle has, and always will, be a distant second to the driver.
— Chris Matakas, The Tao of Jiu Jitsu
For all bodies are in perpetual flux like rivers, and parts are passing in and out of them continually.
— Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz, Monadology
On the other side of self-doubt comes a confidence from faith in the process. Even though our destination may be a long way off, each day we rise with a subtle smile as if we have already achieved it, because, when we are truly committed to a task, we already have.
— Chris Matakas, The Tao of Jiu Jitsu
Oh, my child, can you not see? You must let go of yourself. For if a seed wishes to live, it must sacrifice itself and grow outward, not inward.
— Seth Adam Smith, Rip Van Winkle and the Pumpkin Lantern
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 without tension.
— J. Grant Howard, Balancing Life's Demands: A New Perspective on Priorities
Growth is the process of gradual increase towards living a fulfilled life
— Rosette Mugidde Wamambe
Jiu Jitsu is a baptism by combat, and serves a purpose in the inner life of the individual that has always existed, but our modern culture fails to acknowledge.
— Chris Matakas, The Tao of Jiu Jitsu
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.
— Chris Matakas, The Tao of Jiu Jitsu
After I received my blue belt, I soon recognized that the belts were simply an external representation of an inner experience, and that they mattered little compared to the person I was becoming.
— Chris Matakas, The Tao of Jiu Jitsu
The road from white belt to black is long and arduous; most never reach the end. There are simply too many obstacles of daily life, and too much effort and attention required, for this to be something that the majority of practitioners achieve. This is why a black belt in Jiu Jitsu, especially from a reputable source, is the pinnacle of martial arts rank. It is valuable because of what must be traded for its achievement.
— Chris Matakas, The Tao of Jiu Jitsu
The best stories have many meanings
—  their meaning changes as our capacity to understand and appreciate meaning grows.
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 happily in knowing we have chosen a noble struggle.I think we owe most of our successes to our initial ignorance. When we begin, we cannot see the obstacles ahead, and so we march on optimistically. In hindsight, when we look back and connect the dots, we see just how green we were at the start, and it was only our ignorance that upheld us from the crushing despair of the task at hand.
— Chris Matakas, The Tao of Jiu Jitsu
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 be more untrue. The acceptance of self does not mean to be resigned to the status quo. On the contrary, the more fully we accept ourselves, the more successfully we begin to grow. Love is a far better stimulus than threat or pressure.
— Brennan Manning, The Ragamuffin Gospel: Good News for the Bedraggled, Beat-Up, and Burnt Out
The adult within me would be much wiser to learn from the child within me rather than focus on the demand that the child within me grow up.
— Craig D. Lounsbrough
One day you will be able to look over all the disaster and heartbreak and feel ok with it, today mighten be the day but one day you will.
— Nikki Rowe
I want to say something here, a lot of times, each of us may have been guilty of labeling someone materialistic because they have a high standard or expectation from those they want to relate with or deal with. In our minds, we are pissed off. How can they elevate the standards so high, so high that we are excluded, it must be selfish of them and in fact wicked. They are saying that we are not fit to be their friends, etc, etc. We spend so much energy trying to analyse and sometimes even dare to dictate to others what standards they should keep and maintain so we can fit in, I think with respect, it is a flawed way of thinking about the situation. It is a manner of thinking about the situation that may never solve of problems, our inadequacy.The government may set standards and regulations about how we ought t conduct our affairs in the public, but it will hardly, rarely and barely concern itself with the regulation of personal and private life, except those private actions that have or bring about public consequences. As such, each one of us has the power to make Rules and Regulations for the Admission of Persons into our lives, it is not in your capacity to cry when someone chooses to set his as high as the Eiffel towerFinally, instead of dying of envy, jealousy or resulting in character assassination, what you may do is spend time climbing the ladder of life, that you may become relevant to those you wish to dine and wine with. This is the hard part and most of us will rather squirm and cry-fowl. The rules of the game was set by nature, quitting, is a choice too.
— Magnus Nwagu Amudi
View every obstacle as an opportunity to grow.
— Azim Jamal & Brian Tracy, What You Seek Is Seeking You
Self-discipline is a self-enlarging process.
— M. Scott Peck, The Road Less Traveled: A New Psychology of Love, Traditional Values, and Spiritual Growth
Following your intuition will always lead you to the best experience for your growth right now.
— Michael Thomas Sunnarborg, Balancing Work, Relationships & Life in Three Simple Steps
As we grow older, it becomes difficult to just believe. It's not that we don't want to, but too much has happened and we can't.
— Now and Then
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 grace of the balls. Someone else. Someone she liked.
— Brandon Sanderson, The Hero of Ages
The only thing that separates the person you are from the person you want to be are the actions you take.
— John Bruna
the German and Japanese governments heavily subsidized their chemical industries for war purposes. Government subsidies, direct or indirect, spurred German developments in synthetic rubber and plastics, synthetic fuels, light metals, and various other substitutes for natural materials.However, the world's chemical industries would have grown rapidly without artificial encouragement.
— George W. Stocking, Cartels in Action: Case Studies in International Business Diplomacy
When a situation becomes too uncomfortable for you, it's either it's way bigger than you can handle or you've become too big for it. The catch, though, is that you decide which is - To outgrow it or let it grow all over you.
— Ufuoma Apoki
In the present moment, no past achievement has any bearing, but we perpetually bring ourselves into the here and now; we are our constant companion. By carving the ineffable nature of my soul, rather than simply pursuing the "W," I am able to bring all of my past accomplishments with me into the present. They do hold bearing on today, not because of what I have done, but because of who I have become. This is what matters.
— Chris Matakas, The Tao of Jiu Jitsu
Faith in Christ is a one-time decision that leads to a lifetime of growth.
— Stephen Caldwell
The seed must be buried, for the flower to bloom.
— Wordions
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 wanting something good. The shame of feeling something good. The shame of not believing we deserve to stand in the same room in the same way as all those we admire. Big red As on our chests. I never thought to myself growing up, be a lawyer. An astronaut. The President. A scientist. A doctor. An architect. I didn’t even think, be a writer. Aspiration gets stuck in some people. It’s difficult to think yes. Or up. When all you feel is fight or run.
— Lidia Yuknavitch, The Chronology of Water
Ive learnt the most about myself through the people and places i no longer visit, such an ironic exprience.The greatest lessons are from those we give the keys of our hearts to & trust all too easily; realising later on, they are just apart of this grande' story and not everyone gets to make it to the end chapter & happy ever after.
— Nikki Rowe
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 unconditional love does not lead us to rest on our laurels. Instead, it surrounds us with a charged force field that makes us want to grow from the inside out — a force field that is safe enough to take the risks and endure the failures that growth requires.
— Parker J. Palmer
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.
— E. Obeng-Amoako Edmonds
Everyday my life gets better and better. I make loving, life affirming choices daily to create an amazing life.
— Eileen Anglin
That is the thing about films. They don't change. You change. The immutability of the film (or a book or a painting or a piece of music) is something to measure yourself against. That is one of the things a great work of art does. It stays there waiting for you to come back to it, and it shows you who you are now, each time a little different.
— Dana Spiotta, Innocents and Others
I would prefer my experiences in communication to have a growth-promoting effect, both on me and on the other, and I should like to avoid those communication experiences in which both I and the other person feel diminished.
— Carl R. Rogers, A Way of Being
Honesty can force any dysfunction in your life to the surface. Are you in an abusive relationship? A refusal to lie to others – How did you get that bruise? – would oblige you to come to grips with this situation very quickly. Do you have a problem with drugs or alcohol? Lying is the lifeblood of addiction. If we have no recourse to lies, our lives can unravel only so far without others noticing.Telling the truth can also reveal ways in which we want to grow but haven’t.
— Sam Harris, Lying
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.
— M. Scott Peck
Death Valley wasn't dead at all. It was asleep. It was simply waiting for the conditions of growth. When the conditions came, life returned to the heart of Death Valley.Human beings and human communities are the same. We need the right conditions for growth, in our schools, businesses, and communities, and in our individual lives. If the conditions are right, people grown in synergy with the people around them and the environments they create. If the conditions are poor, people protect themselves and their anxieties from neighbors and the world. Some of the elements of our growth are inside us. They include the need to develop our unique natural aptitudes and personal passions. Finding and nurturing them is the surest way to ensure our growth and fulfillment a as individuals.
— Ken Robinson, The Element: How Finding Your Passion Changes Everything
Self worth is not measured by what you have, no matter how full your life is. Rather, it comes from what you are, how authentically you're really living your life, and how much you are willing to give to something other than your own insecurities.
— Shannon L. Alder
I synonymously felt my heart beat rapaciously, the heart which was once void of anything alive and well. Now the heart was rasping and knocking on my ribcage as if it was demanding to come out, take its root and grow.
— Diyar Harraz, Like The Starlings
If I flew for you, you would still be standing.
— Heather Nova
Change is constant and always happening...The more flexible we are, the more we can benefit from life's changes that occurs.
— Dionna L. Hayden, Moving Day
The process of fostering the growth of another living being—either plant or human—is a delight for the soul.
— Catherine Carrigan, What Is Healing? Awaken Your Intuitive Power for Health and Happiness
All relationships have ups and downs. Romantic fantasy often nurtures the belief that difficulties and down times are an indication of a lack of love rather than part of the process. In actuality, true love thrives of the difficulties. The foundation of such love is the assumption that we want to grow and expand, to become more fully ourselves. There is no change that does not bring with it a feeling of challenge and loss. When we experience true love it may feel as though our lives are in danger; we may feel threatened.
— bell hooks, All About Love: New Visions
Good laughter, or even a smile. It makes everything grow. It makes people Love you.
— Angie karan
In every experience we get to choose either love or fear as a response. Your character is formed by the percentages of those choices, which then forms your life.
— Shannon L. Alder
Keep up your faith to go high and fly, even after so many pains and sorrow. You can turn from a caterpillar to a butterfly. Life gives you a second change: a call to grow.
— Ana Claudia Antunes, The Tao of Physical and Spiritual
Each story provides a beginning, a middle and an end, the trick is, never seperate them through the chapters or you'll miss the meaning of the entire book.
— Nikki Rowe
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 thrilled her. I am beyond it and I will not sink. This submission, this triumph made her stronger. It was as if finally, after having passed through inferior stages, her life had found a form worthy of it.
— James Salter, Light Years
Life has a way of forcing us to grow in one way or another, constantly. We sometimes try to stem the growth by being unbending..yet, look what happens to the branches of a tree, if they refuse to bend to whims of the weather? They snap and break...If one starts to learn to be flexible and not resist life.... one steps into the kind of Mastery that is able to walk on the waters of time
— Angie karan
To present is to take a stand and being responsible.
— Aayush Jain
We do all these things when we are young. The poise, the savoir faire, it comes later.
— Agatha Christie, Murder in Mesopotamia
Leave me, O Love, which reachest but to dust,And thou, my mind, aspire to higher things!Grow rich in that which never taketh rust:Whatever fades, but fading pleasure brings.Draw in thy beams, and humble all thy mightTo that sweet yoke where lasting freedoms be;Which breaks the clouds, and opens forth the light,That doth both shine, and give us sight to see.
— Philip Sidney, The Poems of Sir Philip Sidney
His life coiled back into the brown murk of the past like a twined filament of electric wire; he gave life, a pattern, and movement to these million sensations that Chance, the loss or gain of a moment, the turn of the head, the enormous and aimless impulsion of accident, had thrust into the blazing heat of him. His mind picked out in white living brightness these pinpoints of experience and the ghostliness of all things else became more awful because of them. So many of the sensations that returned to open haunting vistas of fantasy and imagining had been caught from a whirling landscape through the windows of the train.And it was this that awed him — the weird combination of fixity and change, the terrible moment of immobility stamped with eternity in which, passing life at great speed, both the observer and the observed seem frozen in time. There was one moment of timeless suspension when the land did not move, the train did not move, the slattern in the doorway did not move, he did not move. It was as if God had lifted his baton sharply above the endless orchestration of the seas, and the eternal movement had stopped, suspended in the timeless architecture of the absolute. Or like those motion-pictures that describe the movements of a swimmer making a dive, or a horse taking a hedge — movement is petrified suddenly in mid-air, the inexorable completion of an act is arrested. Then, completing its parabola, the suspended body plops down into the pool. Only, these images that burnt in him existed without beginning or ending, without the essential structure of time. Fixed in no-time, the slattern vanished, fixed, without a moment of transition.His sense of unreality came from time and movement, from imagining the woman, when the train had passed, as walking back into the house, lifting a kettle from the hearth embers. Thus life turned shadow, the living lights went ghost again. The boy among the calves. Where later? Where now?I am, he thought, a part of all that I have touched and that has touched me, which, having for me no existence save that which I gave to it, became other than itself by being mixed with what I then was, and is now still otherwise, having fused with what I now am, which is itself a cumulation of what I have been becoming. Why here? Why there? Why now? Why then?The fusion of the two strong egotisms, Eliza’s inbrooding and Gant’s expanding outward, made of him a fanatical zealot in the religion of Chance. Beyond all misuse, waste, pain, tragedy, death, confusion, unswerving necessity was on the rails; not a sparrow fell through the air but that its repercussion acted on his life, and the lonely light that fell upon the viscous and interminable seas at dawn awoke sea-changes washing life to him. The fish swam upward from the depth.
— Thomas Wolfe, Look Homeward, Angel
Embrace the uncertainty; there is either a massive growth or catastrophic destruction for you lying underneath, there comes its joy.
— Alper Durukan
We tend to think of nourishment only as what we take in through our mouths, but what we consume with our eyes, our ears, our noses, our tongues, and our bodies is also food. The conversations going on around us, and those we participate in, are also food. Are we consuming and creating the kind of food that is healthy for us and helps us grow?
— Thich Nhat Hanh
If a lotus is to grow, it needs to be rooted in the mind.
— Thich Nhat Hanh, The Art of Communicating
Your faith requires your action to back it up. Choose to see what part you must participate in to see your circumstance improve and personally grow and appreciate the victory because of it.
— Dionna L. Hayden
The middle [those rough patches that come before the completion of our milestones] is only a temporal place, never settle there or cut corners to get out!
— Dionna L. Hayden
The things we earnestly chased like they are inevitable
—  now we see them and pass by....that's what i call GROWTH. Some will take 20 yrs to know this growth but those that feed on the Word have instant growth and prosperity. God be praised
The studies of women's lives over time portray the role of crisis in transition and underline the possibilities for growth and despair that lie in the recognition of defeat. The studies of Betty and Sarah elucidate the transitions in the development of an ethic of care. The shifts in concern from survival to goodness and from goodness to truth are elaborated through time in these two women's lives. Both studies illustrate the potential of crisis to break a cycle of repetition and suggest that crisis itself may signal a return to a missed opportunity for growth. These portraits of transition are followed by depictions of despair, illustrations of moral nihilism in women who could find no answer to the question "why care?
— Carol Gilligan, In a Different Voice: Psychological Theory and Women's Development
Unsuccessful people think the end justifies the means. Successful people understand that the means justifies the end; if the means isn't available, the end can wait. Successful people simply cut their coat according to their size, then grow by increasing their size.
— Asuni LadyZeal
It is better to be alone then to be in a relationship, while you are trying to figure out what love means to you.
— Shannon L. Alder
The more we focus on who we are in Christ, the less it matters who we were in the past, or even what happened to us.
— Joyce Meyer, Beauty for Ashes: Receiving Emotional Healing
Yes, you're right. It's part of growing up, I suppose. You always have to leave something behind you.ü
— Neil Gaiman, Season of Mists
I am not where I need to be, but, thank God, I am not where I used to be.
— Joyce Meyer, Beauty for Ashes: Receiving Emotional Healing
A person can't heal as long as they are deflecting and blaming. One must accept responsibility for their own actions and make the shift necessary for growth.
— Sanjo Jendayi
Everything we encounter in life is an opportunity to choose God and in turn become more like Him in the process. Quick contentment fixes are corner cutters; when we cut the corner and cut the process, we miss what God wants to do.
— Joshua Stannard, How Good Can It Get
It was a strange thing about people- they could look the same but be different.
— Bernard Malamud, The Assistant
...distinction between growth and development. Aggregate growth in national economic indicators need not mean an improved life for the majority of the people.
— Raewyn Connell and Nour Dados
You see, what we do with what He gives us determines how much more we will get.
— Joshua Stannard, How Good Can It Get
No one can tell what goes on in between the person you were and the person you become. No one can chart that blue and lonely section of hell. There are no maps of the change. You just... come out the other side.
— Stephen King, The Stand
The really dramatic growth happens when a startup only has three of four people, so only three or four people see that, whereas tens of thousands see business as it's practiced by Boeing or Philip Morris.
— Jessica Livingston
Prune the ill branches so that a tree grows.Prune the dilapidated buildings so that a city flourishes.
— Khang Kijarro Nguyen
Allow yourself to grow. When you think you've seen it all, this is far beyond the truth... There is so much more out there seeking you.
— Karen A. Baquiran
I always stopped myself from crying because I wasn't allowed to feel my "bad" emotions. I've learned that there is no such thing as bad emotions. To expand is to feel everything because they are part of being human. Never resist your true feelings because then you're resisting yourself and your chance to grow.
— Karen A. Baquiran
Yes, you're right. It's part of growing up, I suppose. You always have to leave something behind you.
— Neil Gaiman, Season of Mists
If we dismiss all of our hard work, including the very foundation we stand on, and its cracks, we won’t get very far because it takes a foundation from which to begin. Be proud, and embrace “your normal.
— Stacy A King
I heaved into being, came out of the stone, the bricks, and other elements, and took form. (Dark City Lights)
— Jerrold Mundis
It's him, it always has been and it always will be ~ the only thing left now is timing.
— Nikki Rowe
Beautiful are those whose brokenness gives birth to transformation and wisdom.
— John Mark Green
Only ever doing what feels comfortable is a form of suicide.
— Oli Anderson, Personal Revolutions: A Short Course in Realness
You will be perpetually unhappy if you continue to refuse to walk in your calling.
— Brandi L. Bates, Moonshine For The Soul: A Path to Strength, Wisdom, Growth, Health & Happiness
A daughter of God knows that insecurity is not an excuse for doing evil to others, nor will God rest until caring for everyone is a lesson you learn.
— Shannon L. Alder
In the midst of your struggles, you WILL find a reason to keep going. Don’t give up!
— Robert Tew
When we read stories of heroes, we identify with them. We take the journey with them. We see how the obstacles almost overcome them. We see how they grow as human beings or gain qualities or show great qualities of strength and courage and with them, we grow in some small way
— Sam Raimi
You’ll get better with time so be patient with yourself.
— Robert Tew
There's always something coming. Good or bad, it's going to force you to grow.
— Robert Tew
Nothing happens without waiting. The seed in the ground does not become a tree overnight. It goes through seasons, nurturing, watering, pruning before it bears fruit.
— Ngina Otiende, Navigating Change: Why You Don't Have to Drown
People don’t need to be forced to grow. All we need is favorable circumstances: respect, love, honesty, and the space to explore.
— Ellen Bass, The Courage to Heal: A Guide for Women Survivors of Child Sexual Abuse
Familiarity breeds contempt, for others at first, but then inwardly, contempt towards ourselves.
— Oli Anderson, Synchronesia: A Depressing Existential Novel
The past will only catch you, if you ran from it to begin with.
— Nikki Rowe
Four months in the life of a seventeen-year-old is the stuff of swings and roundabouts
— ... Never again in your life do you possess the capacity for such total personality overhaul.
Inability to accept positive change is a hindrance to growth.
— Amitava Chowdhury
Am I a storm-waster? For it is within the fury of the very storms within which I cower that I find resources for my growth that are entirely absent on calmer days.
— Craig D. Lounsbrough, Flecks of Gold on a Path of Stone: Simple Truths for Profound Living
I could tell he was just as scared to love as I, But we still both carelessly climbed into eachothers arms and before we knew it, love had found us.
— Nikki Rowe