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Destroy yourself. Be on the edge of it all, and right before that weird place tells you to let it go completely; let the energy go in all directions. Falling on your face will never be fun, or purposeful. You don't own energy; you own the inertia!
— James Emlund
Don't base your decision on the opinions of those who don't want to see you grow.
— Yvonne Pierre, The Day My Soul Cried:  A Memoir
If I know something, I am not a victim. Victims don't know the meaning of their suffering. I am an enemy or a collaborator, not a victim.
— Rachel Klein, The Moth Diaries
I do... to this day, think that success is being able to look in the mirror and know that I'm alright on that day. I don't believe I've made it–I believe that I'm making it. I believe that I've found my past so that I can live in the present, it's the most important thing to me. The books and the plays and the touring and the gigs and the speeches and the cash...it all pales into insignificance when compared with knowing that I didn't do anything wrong, and I'm going to be okay now.
— Lemn Sissay
We add caveats to prayers like seasoning to bad sauce. We hope for something else or something more, but we forget. Sometimes life isn’t the pleasure of the taste, rather the nutrition we get from it.
— Shannon L. Alder
A person who faces unique miseries learns much. All time transports him rich insights.
— Darmie O-Lujon
You may have sought and tried to obtain instant godliness. There is no such thing....We want somebody to give us three easy steps to godliness, and we'll take them next Friday and be godly. The trouble is, godliness doesn't come that way.~Jay Adams~
— Jerry Bridges, The Pursuit of Holiness
No man has been able to do everything he wants without experiencing failures first.
— Dave Shepp
God in his infinite wisdom has deposited in everything the potential for growth and multiplication.
— Sunday Adelaja
Setbacks are just stepping stones to great things.
— Teresa Collins, Live LIFE in All Caps: The Teresa Collins Story
It is so easy to demonize free-market and the freedom to outsource and offshore because it is so much easier to see people being laid off in big bunches, which makes headlines, than to see them being hired in fives and tens by small and medium-sized companies, which rarely makes news.
— Thomas L. Friedman, The World Is Flat: A Brief History of the Twenty-first Century
Every person, experience and circumstance are opportunities for spiritual growth and development. They are not coincidences… they are synchronicities.
— Renee Cefalu
While those who continuously get themselves the supply of growth, smile through life.
— Sunday Adelaja
The universe begins in infinity and move in infinity, your soul is part of the universe you have no end; your soul will always thrive in eternal flame.
— Micheline Jean Louis
Our churches are full of people during work hours, in the morning, at noon, in the evening praying, instead of being in the factories, libraries, and laboratories, facilitating economic growth.
— Sunday Adelaja
Life demands growth
— Sunday Adelaja
A continuous growth, a steady growth is a demand of life.
— Sunday Adelaja
A long decade ago economic growth was the reigning fashion of political economy. It was simultaneously the hottest subject of economic theory and research, a slogan eagerly claimed by politicians of all stripes, and a serious objective of the policies of governments. The climate of opinion has changed dramatically. Disillusioned critics indict both economic science and economic policy for blind obeisance to aggregate material "progress," and for neglect of its costly side effects. Growth, it is charged, distorts national priorities, worsens the distribution of income, and irreparably damages the environment. Paul Erlich speaks for a multitude when he says, "We must acquire a life style which has as its goal maximum freedom and happiness for the individual, not a maximum Gross National Product." [in Nordhaus, William D. and James Tobin., "Is growth obsolete?" Economic Research: Retrospect and Prospect Vol 5: Economic Growth. Nber, 1972. 1-80]
— James Tobin, Economic Research: Retrospect and Prospect : Economic Growth
You are engaging in madness. I feel obliged to accompany you.
— Alejandro Jodorowsky
Growth is one of the most natural process of life
— Sunday Adelaja
A butterfly does not return to a caterpillar after it is mature. We must learn to grow and evolve into a stronger, wiser and better version of ourselves. Life occurs in stages and taking a step at a time is key to learning and growing.
— Kemi Sogunle
Our churches are full of people during work hours, morning, noon, evening, praying instead of being in the factories, libraries, laboratories, facilitating economic growth
— Sunday Adelaja
To fully understand how utterly amazing we really are we must first understand all of the things about us that are not, and then we must make our habitation where they are not.
— Craig D. Lounsbrough, An Intimate Collision: Encounters with Life and Jesus
It's hard enough being alive, trying to survive in the world and find your place in it, to do the things you need to do to get by, without wondering if the thing you just did, whatever it was, was worth someone having.
— Neil Gaiman, The Ocean at the End of the Lane
Where there is growth however, there is increase
— Sunday Adelaja
To overcome something great you must first learn to overcome your own fears.
— Nikki Rowe
Increase answers to growth
— Sunday Adelaja
Powerful words, a soft embrace, & facial expression that can warm your heart. Growth shows you to appreciate what you didn't before.
— April Mae Monterrosa
I believe we could both maintain growth and increase, both in quality and quantity
— Sunday Adelaja
If your small work does not experience increase and growth, you will be starving yourself inspiration
— Sunday Adelaja
People who gives excuses of lack of growth simply don’t know how to apply the principle of increase
— Sunday Adelaja
People who gives excuses of lack of growth simply don’t know how to apply the principle of increase is practically inevitable.
— Sunday Adelaja
One of the principles of increase that provide enough demand for growth is vision
— Sunday Adelaja
Skills or professionalism is another factor of growth
— Sunday Adelaja
Just like the cast of a great movie and the career of great athletes few success stories are a one man show. Build your team and grow.
— Rasheed Ogunlaru
Negative feedback may be fun, but it is far less brave than endorsing something unproven and providing room to grow.
— Ed Catmull
Whenever you should doubt your self-worth, remember the lotus flower.Even though it plunges to life from beneath the mud, it does not allow the dirt that surrounds it to affect its growth or beauty. Be that lotus flower always. Do not allow any negativity or ugliness in your surroundings destroy your confidence, affect your growth, or make you question your self-worth.
— Suzy Kassem
... In your twenties you're becoming who you're going to be and so you might as well not be an asshole. Also, because it's harder to be magnanimous when you're in your twenties, I think, and so that's why I'd like to remind you of it. You're generally less humble in that decade than you'll ever be and this lack of humility is oddly mixed with insecurity and uncertainty and fear. You will learn a lot about yourself if you stretch in the direction of goodness, of bigness, of kindness, of forgiveness, of emotional bravery.
— Cheryl Strayed, Tiny Beautiful Things: Advice on Love and Life from Dear Sugar
Why do we resist the mystery that change brings? When we get too rigid and inflexible, rigor mortis of the soul sets in. For proof of this, we need look no further than to those who choose to stay in a relationship or job long after the soul, or life force, that originally brought it passion and joy has vacated the premises.
— Dennis Merritt Jones, The Art of Uncertainty: How to Live in the Mystery of Life and Love It
When listening to the lightning storms in your area on a standard AM radio, you will hear a sound like bacon frying and this is the electromagnetic energy that the storm is generating. Plants react to this energy and may show vigorous growth during lightning seasons.
— Steven Magee, Electrical Forensics
Better to step out of your comfort zone, enjoy new experiences & not know what's coming your way, than stick to routines & be bored with the same end results.
— April Mae Monterrosa
A lazy person will never grow wealthy.
— Sunday Adelaja
Being part of the whole, as I grow so does that which contains me.
— Chris Matakas, My Mastery: Continued Education Through Jiu Jitsu
I have noticed that the solar radiation reflections from rippled privacy windows cause greatly accelerated growth patterns in plants
— Steven Magee, Light Forensics
When I was younger, my mom loved to garden. But the flowers would never grow. She kept planting seeds even thought nothing would grow. She just kept trying.''I don't understand.''Because you can't.''What does this have to do with anything?'I don't fiddle with my fingers and there's no apology on the tip of my tongue when I say, 'I am my mother's son.
— Ellie Lieberman, Society's Foundlings
It is always necessary to acknowledge creative injuries and grieve them. Otherwise, they become creative scar tissue and block your growth.
— Julia Cameron, The Artist's Way Workbook
So much of personal development and growth comes down to the decisions you make when you hit a wall. Do you spend your time feeling bad for yourself, or do you invest your time in continuing to build toward your dreams?
— Andrea Goeglein
The root systems of these lies we tell ourselves tend to grow together. It’s all connected with the belief human love is conditional. But human love isn’t conditional. No love is conditional. If love is conditional, it’s just some sort of manipulation masquerading as love.
— Donald Miller, Scary Close: Dropping the Act and Finding True Intimacy
Plants can be affected by stray voltage and they may show stunted growth, deformed growth, or go dormant. In extreme cases they may die.
— Steven Magee, Electrical Forensics
Like seeds we start small, grow together and stand tall
— Evy Michaels
There is a time and place for electromagnetic shielding and I regard it as a last resort due to the long term biological problems that I have observed with it over the years in plant growth experiments.
— Steven Magee, Curing Electromagnetic Hypersensitivity
Generation is the Important factor,of the Growth of Ideas.
— Fahad Rashiq
Great people will always be mocked by those who feel smaller than them. A lion does not flinch at laughter coming from a hyena. A gorilla does not budge from a banana thrown at it by a monkey.A nightingale does not stop singing its beautiful song at the intrusion of an annoying woodpecker. Whenever you should doubt your self-worth, remember the lotus flower. Even though it plunges to life from beneath the mud,it does not allow the dirt that surrounds it to affect its growth or beauty.
— Suzy Kassem, Rise Up and Salute the Sun: The Writings of Suzy Kassem
Who can be 100 percent sure of one's choices in life? How do you know that your beloved will always remain the same, or that you'll never change your mind? Growth and change are two of the great gifts we get from time. It would be shortsighted to spurn them.
— Alma Katsu, The Descent
I ought to grow up successfully, and I'm sure it will be my own fault if I don't. I feel it's a great responsibility because I have only one chance. If I don't grow up right I can't go back and begin over again.
— L.M. Montgomery
I find pain, rather beautiful. It has a chaotic way of shaking up Everything we once ignored, To empower us to move past Anything that doesn't serve the best of us anymore.
— Nikki Rowe
Don't waste today by talking about yesterday until it's finally tomorrow.
— Tim Fargo
If you look around you at the physical universe, you will see that it's nature is growth. Everything from the cells in your body to the planets orbiting the sun are constantly growing, constantly changing, constantly evolving. Nothing stays still. Nothing remains the same. So think about it - why would your life be the exception? Why would you be the only thing that exists in all of creation whose purpose isn't to grow?
— Barbara De Angelis, Secrets About Life Every Woman Should Know: Ten Principles for Total Emotional and Spiritual Fulfillment
I am a phoenix rising from the ashes of my pain and suffering. Today I am reborn, today begins my growth and change.
— Kaitlin DS Cammie
I’ll never be able to be here again. As the minutes slide by, I move on. The flow of time is something I cannot stop. I haven’t a choice. I go. One caravan has stopped, another starts up. There are people I have yet to meet, others I’ll never see again. People who are gone before you know it, people who are just passing through. Even as we exchange hellos, they seem to grow transparent. I must keep living with the flowing river before my eyes.
— Banana Yoshimoto
Be with people who like you for who you are, not what you have.
— Robert Tew
Marianne could never love by halves; and her whole heart became, in time, as much devoted to her husband, as it had once been to Willoughby.
— Jane Austen, Sense and Sensibility
The pathway to peace is an in describable journey of facing ones darkness, to find ones light. If they told you it's easier to give up, you met a fool; if they told you; it's easier to grow, you met the wise.
— Nikki Rowe
Were you always such a snake," the child asked, "or did you grow into what you are?
— Dean Koontz, Odd Apocalypse
Everything you go through grows you.
— Robert Tew
Until you see fear as an opportunity for growth, you won’t grow beyond your current self.
— Robert Tew
I’m sorry I changed… life forced me to grow.
— Robert Tew
You've earned the right to grow. You're going to have to carry the water yourself.
— Cheryl Strayed
Until you see fear as an opportunity for growth, you won't grow beyond your current self.
— Robert Tew
It doesn't really matter who you used to be, what matters is who you've become.
— Robert Tew
Your level of comfort will increase your level of confidence.
— Rob Liano
I learnt my best lessons from some of the worst people & I look back now and think thank fuck I let you go, I deserved to grow.
— Nikki Rowe
The struggle to leave the cocoon is what strengthens the butterfly’s wings so she can fly. I am about to become something beautiful.
— Tricia Stirling, When My Heart Was Wicked
Despite our disapproval with what God allows us to endure, he still remains the same God that is not interested in our convenience, as much as our character.
— Shannon L. Alder
I have gotten where I am today by refusing to stay where I was. Change is something I have done over and over again.
— Danielle Bernock, Emerging with Wings: A True Story of Lies, Pain, and the Love That Heals
Even when life knocks me around, I will not lose hope. For you see, nothing is ever personal Just a chance for me to grow.
— Nikki Rowe
i see the sky as beautiful, Regardless of its shine Because I wake each day grateful, That I get another chance to be alive.
— Nikki Rowe
Resistance makes a man think new thoughts he never considered before. It makes a man ask questions he never asked before. It makes a man seek answers he never sought before. It makes a man beg God for help that he never before realized he needed. These quests, quests of the heart and soul, eventually make a man deeper, wider, taller.
— Randall Arthur, Wisdom Hunter
A true man will treat a woman how she treats herself, you can't expect to be a queen when your disrespecting your own crown.
— Nikki Rowe
Some believe to be spiritual, is to be always loving and shit... Being spiritual is taking no shit, by believing that your voice deserves to be heard if the deed is not satisfying your soul.
— Nikki Rowe
carry your wounds with pride, Believe in yourself; amongst greatest of catastrophe' You grew into the being you are And I think that in itself, is certainly enough.
— Nikki Rowe
Gandhi is an example of a man who grew from being self-centered as he was learning to become a lawyer in England, to becoming more family- and social oriented in South-Africa, where he led a reformation of Indian rights, to becoming determined in helping his nation recover from British rule at which he succeeded in the end with the help of a great many people. At the end of his life Gandhi was increasingly focused on a larger picture, encasing the whole world in his vision of a peaceful future.
— Gudjon Bergmann, Living in the Spirit of Yoga: Take Yoga Off the Mat and Into Your Everyday Life
I am weary of this notion of faithfulness to a point of view at all cost. Life around us is ever changing, and I believe that one should try to change one’s slant accordingly—at least once every ten years. The great heroic devotion to one point of view is very alien to me—it’s a lack of humility. Mayakovsky killed himself because his pride would not be reconciled with something new happening within himself—or around him.
— Boris Pasternak
I sat and asked God a question, never before now had I felt he was truly listening; Or was it i, that disrupted his appearance... Why God, must the treasures of our world be hard done by and the enemies of life become greater in their scheme of manipulation? Oh dear one, I chose the strong ones to hand the deepest lessons, because I know they can handle it and soon enough they will too. The ones that twiddle their thumbs and become ignorant to what's their truth; will attract what they are and continue in the circle of vicious greed. They'll eventually grow, like you did too. It may just take time, and your time now is bettering your existence from the struggle you've faced.
— Nikki Rowe
Breaking away from old psychological memes requires a Herculean effort in many cases. In essence, we are outgrowing a worldview while maintaining a relation-ship of sorts. Transcending an ideology can feel like going through a divorce and having to stay friends because of the kids.
— Gudjon Bergmann, More Likely to Quote Star Wars than the Bible: Generation X and Our Frustrating Search for Rational Spirituality
You must learn to give, from sufficiency, not only take, from neediness.
— Lois McMaster Bujold
Masters of flight don't learn to fly because of all that helped them, they learnt to fly, despite all that tried to stop them.
— Nikki Rowe
Growth seems to evolve from a narrow-minded, constricted worldview (selfish) to an ever-more-encompassing worldview (multiperspective caring). To put it simply, the more self-centered you are, the lower you tend to land on these scales, while the more perspectives you can entertain—the more empathy you can show and the better your ability to see things from a variety of viewpoints—the higher you land on these scales.
— Gudjon Bergmann, More Likely to Quote Star Wars than the Bible: Generation X and Our Frustrating Search for Rational Spirituality
I'm enjoying getting to know me, one lesson at a time.
— Nikki Rowe
They swore by concrete. They built for eternity.
— Günter Grass
I have awaited a storm that should deliver me, pluck me away and now it has come softly, even without my knowledge. But it is here. While I was despairing, thinking everything lost, it was already quietly growing. I had thought that division was always an end. Now I know that growth also is division. And growth means relinquishing. And growth has no end.
— Erich Maria Remarque
Feeling uncomfortable is the first step towards growth.
— L.K. Elliott, Confessions of an Ex Hot Mess
there is a silent beauty hidden amongst pain, if you sit in it you may never find it; if you grow through it, You'll find the treasure.
— Nikki Rowe
Love me only for my actions, and I will grow stressed. Love me only for my body, and I will grow paranoid. Love me only for my words, and I will grow bitter.Love me only for my soul, and I will grow.
— Vironika Tugaleva
there's something about trauma to the mind, body and soul. One day your normal and the next your different; you don't know what changed but you know nothing's the same and all of a sudden you are learning to adapt yourself to the same environment with a whole new outlook. I guess you realise your not invisible and every aching bone bleeds it's sorrow through anguish in your movements. One day it'll get easier, because I'm telling myself it will and that's the difference between becoming a pioneer through this disaster when all thought I'd be a slave to pity.
— Nikki Rowe
dont harden your heart; because of the past, it'll block your sight, of a positive future.
— Nikki Rowe
That we are bound to the earth does not mean that we cannot grow; on the contrary it is the sine qua non of growth. No noble, well-grown tree ever disowned its dark roots, for it grows not only upward but downward as well.
— C.G. Jung, Dreams
Today, I don't want to ask for anythingI just want to give thanks for Everything I already have.
— Nikki Rowe
The possibility to love another scared me; terrified me actually. Being a free spirit, apart of me is most alive when roaming, than I became a mother and for the first time I felt my heart live outside my body and that's the moment his laughter became my medicine.
— Nikki Rowe
You are never as good as you think you are, and you are never as bad as you believe yourself to be.
— Chris Matakas, My Mastery: Learning to Live through Jiu Jitsu
There is no higher calling than service to your fellow man, and to do so through your own personal mastery of a craft is a gift enjoyed by few. Cultivate this gift, and give it away.
— Chris Matakas, My Mastery: Learning to Live through Jiu Jitsu
Jiu Jitsu is a vehicle for self-discovery and growth. It reminds me of my ego, of my insecurities, and of my shortcomings.
— Chris Matakas
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He who didn't succeed at his own dreams, was too busy listening to another's failures.
— Nikki Rowe
I train Jiu Jitsu because I recognize that I am a piece of the whole, and as I grow so does that which contains me. The whole of man advances with the growth of a single individual. Every life I influence is benefited from the fact that I have devoted such a large portion of my life to this pursuit. I will be a better husband, father, and whatever other future roles I may hold because of my time in this sport. In making me a better man, I know that society as a whole is improved.
— Chris Matakas
Reclined legs don't get fed, they get limp like boiled spaghetti. Walk it out!
— T.F. Hodge, From Within I Rise: Spiritual Triumph Over Death and Conscious Encounters with "The Divine Presence"
Jiu Jitsu gives me an ideal to strive toward. Technical mastery lies on an infinite continuum and completion of this skill is impossible. Every time I train I have something that I can improve upon, and this will hold true for each and every training session that lies between me and my grave.
— Chris Matakas
I would more appropriately define mastery as the technical ability possible within the constraints of your particular existence. It must be noted that this is a subjective definition, and that this degree of mastery would be individual to each of us.
— Chris Matakas, My Mastery: Learning to Live through Jiu Jitsu
Rather than whinge on how another has treated you, give a thought to what it is your upset with? Is It really them or is it yourself.. Did they cross a boundary or have you not set one? Did they communicate rudely or are you not listening intently. We so often blame, because it's easier than to confront our vulnerable selves. But the truth is, no one can make you feel inferior if you do not give them the power!
— Nikki Rowe
Like a wild flower; she spent her days, allowing herself to grow, not many knew of her struggle, but eventually all; knew of her light.
— Nikki Rowe
i think through it all, the hardest part was un-attaching myself to the ones I thought would stay around forever. People change and life changes with it, you've got to fight like mad for everything you love and let go with ease for everything that isn't fitting for you anymore. It is apart of maturing your soul, you attract what you need for that stage of your life, and you grow, as people change and so does life.
— Nikki Rowe
We become extremely vulnerable to the ones that love us, we believe in what they say, we believe in their faith held next to us. It's law of attraction to become who your surrounded by, so instead of focusing of changing another, find some one suitable to your soul.
— Nikki Rowe
A moment can change the way you view the world, and the way you view the world will give you more moments.
— Nikki Rowe
Slush is frozen over. People say that winter lasts forever, but it's because they obsess over the thermometer. North in the mountains, the maple syrup is trickling. Brave geese punch through the thin ice left on the lake. Underground, pale seeds roll over in their sleep. Starting to get restless. Starting to dream green.
— Laurie Halse Anderson, Speak
Tomorrow when you wake up, be aware of how you dress your thoughts and emotions, because at the end of the day no matter what you look like, if your inner being isn't beautiful, neither are you.
— Nikki Rowe
And even if you cared what they had to say, would you act upon their opinions and create your life from it? No. Than stop replaying their toxic words in your head, it's no good for your being and start doing the things that once made you, you.
— Nikki Rowe
When 'Dirty Mack' salts your flow, get beyond feelings of hurt, anger, bitterness, and especially vengeance. Be glad, and take refuge in knowing light has been cast on the shadow of hatred, envy or jealousy that has mocked your shine. And press forward with your purpose - allowing time and space to clear the way for karmic justice on your behalf.
— T.F. Hodge, From Within I Rise: Spiritual Triumph Over Death and Conscious Encounters with "The Divine Presence"
We're all a little broken, it's how we feed our brokenness that defines us; some you wouldn't believe ever broke and some you will see never grew through the break but one thing certain, everyone is a little broken, it's how we feed our brokenness that defines us.
— Nikki Rowe
I remember sitting back, on a local beach I called home; thinking about the wild storms I had already faced, the chaotic thunder I somehow learnt to dance through. This time, remembering it, was different. I had no emotional attachment, I felt free of the past and could quietly seperate who I was with who I am now and this moment was empowering , because had I not faced the greatest disasters with courage, I wouldn't have learnt the mastery of life. My self awakening.
— Nikki Rowe, Once a Girl, Now a Woman
don't let someone rearrange your path because they lost sight of their own.
— Nikki Rowe
She always had that about her, the sparkle in her eye, she was unshakeable and what made her so admirable was; her ability to shine bright when no one knew of her pain.
— Nikki Rowe
There isn't much art to writing, you just feel; feel everything deeply and somehow transform your lessons into a magical piece of work that will help someone else's heartache.
— Nikki Rowe
I find it boring and a waste of time debating other people’s opinions, however challenging my own is always intriguing and there is where I inevitably discover growth.
— Carl Henegan, Darkness Left Undone
Preaching vs Teaching:The difference between preaching and teaching: one makes you feel good, the other makes you grow.
— T.F. Hodge, From Within I Rise: Spiritual Triumph Over Death and Conscious Encounters with "The Divine Presence"
people give themselves away so freely, and we can't be lesser to them for this, we've all experienced density in which we've honoured another's journey before our own, and they too, like us will start to believe that they hold a rare infectious gift by being their 100% self. When they realise this, they won't waste another moment giving away apart of them they fought so hard to find.
— Nikki Rowe
Your potential for growth is directly proportionate to the degree to which you are willing to make mistakes.
— Chris Matakas, My Mastery: Learning to Live through Jiu Jitsu
She didn't struggle and so she didn't grow
— Paulo Coelho
No matter how old I get, I keep running into people who are smarter, nobler, and kinder. I really ought to start listening to them and telling my pride to shut up. I had gods tell me not to go to Asgard. I had witches tell me not to go to Flagstaff. You told me this plan wouldn't work. But I barreled ahead anyway for my own reasons. I still have plenty of growing to do.
— Kevin Hearne, Tricked
Never violate the sacredness of your individual self-respect.
— Theodore Parker
When you enter a mindset, you enter a new world. In one world--the world of fixed traits--success is about proving you're smart or talented. Validating yourself. In the other--the world of changing qualities--it's about stretching yourself to learn something new. Developing yourself.
— Carol S. Dweck
I believe that man is here to grow into the fullest, the best that he can be. At least this is what I want to do. As I am growing to become whatever I become, this will just come out on the horn. Whatever that's going to be, it will be. I am not so much interested in trying to say what it's going to be. I don't know. I just know that good can only bring good.
— John Coltrane
Hope floats but effort propels.
— Rob Liano
Without appreciation (for yourself, others and life itself) there is no growth
— Rasheed Ogunlaru
Thousands of hopeful days came to naught before this one. This was a golden day. Never give up.
— Richelle E. Goodrich, Making Wishes
When you fall so many times, you become the master of flight.
— Nikki Rowe
They say if you're a better person today than you were yesterday you're well on the road to perfection. So I figure if I'm a real snot today, tomorrow I should make huge progress.
— Richelle E. Goodrich
Sometimes our inability to be Christlike happens because... we don't care. But sometimes it happens because we are naïve about our own hidden darkness.
— MaryKate Morse, Making Room for Leadership: Power, Space and Influence
Comparison kills...There will always be someone ahead of you and someone behind you in life...When you see someone behind you...feel blessed for you are ahead of them...When you see someone ahead of you...feel inspired for your own growth...Compare yourself to YOU of yesterday, if that's what you like to do...so you can become better today !
— Abha Maryada Banerjee, Nucleus: Power Women: Lead from the Core
Small but growing is better than big and stuck.
— David Waweru, Champion
Life is full of lessons for the success-minded person who keeps his/her eyes open to what is going on.
— John Patrick Hickey
Somewhere along the journey i lost myself; i learnt to be who they told me to be, i lived that girl for decades until their truth showed me; the words they were preaching didnt match the the steps they were walking, so i was done with their opinion and went on my unique way.
— Nikki Rowe
focus your intention on what your building, not whats already fallen away.
— Nikki Rowe
A person has all sorts of lags built into him, Kesey is saying. One, the most basic, is the sensory lag, the lag between the time your senses receive something and you are able to react. One-thirtieth of a second is the time it takes, if you are the most alert person alive, and most people are a lot slower than that. Now Cassady is right up against that 1/30th of a second barrier. He is going as fast as a human can go, but even he can't overcome it. He is a living example of how close you can come, but it can't be done. You can't go any faster than that. You can't through sheer speed overcome the lag. We are all of us doomed to spend the rest of our lives watching a movie of our lives - we are always acting on what has just finished happening. It happened at least 1/30th of a second ago. We think we are in the present, but we aren't. The present we know is only a movie of the past, and we will really never be able to control the present through ordinary means. That lag has to be overcome some other way, through some kind of total breakthrough.
— Tom Wolfe, The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test
Broken by hardships, disappointments and tragedy, people can become discouraged and cynical. But lives can also be mended. Put back together well, they won't be just like they were before. Damaged pieces reassembled with a golden bonding of patience and love will help form a person into an exquisite masterpiece. It is as if people have to be broken before they can become whole and complete.
— Steve Goodier
she will change the world someday, her cure of love in a world gone mad; is the gentle kind of touch that will teach women to grow and men to rise.
— Nikki Rowe
we can only flourish when we are truly grounded in self. keep that in mind when journeying.
— Alexandra Elle
The greatest disaster of self; comes not with experience of failure, but the fear gained belief; about what you think you cannot achieve
— Nikki Rowe, Once a Girl, Now a Woman
i love the moments i lost a little faith, spirit would always remind me; it was just a bad day.
— Nikki Rowe
In the heart of every apple is an entire orchard waiting only to be planted.
— Thorstan Osborne
Manifestation is like a flower, you must put so much intent into its energy before you can sight its beauty.
— Nikki Rowe
Our talents are living things, we give birth to them, nourish them till they grow and become immortal.
— Michael Bassey Johnson
Seed Leaves Homage to R. F. Here something stubborn comes,Dislodging the earth crumbsAnd making crusty rubble.it comes up bending double,And looks like a green staple.It could be seedling maple,Or artichoke, or bean.That remains to be seen.Forced to make choice of ends,The stalk in time unbends,Shakes off the seed-case, heavesAloft, and spreads two leavesWhich still display no sureAnd special signature.Toothless and fat, they keepThe oval form of sleep.This plant would like to growAnd yet be embryo;In crease, and yet escapeThe doom of taking shape;Be vaguely vast, and climbTo the tip end of timeWith all of space to fill,Like boundless IgdrasilThat has the stars for fruit.But something at the rootMore urgent that the urgeBids two true leaves emerge;And now the plant, resignedTo being self-definedBefore it can commerceWith the great universe,Takes aim at all the skyAnd starts to ramify.
— Richard Wilbur
Nothing is lost that cannot be refound" she says in a voice infused with otherworldly authority "this is the Dark Goddess's promise to guide you back to your deepest self and soul. If you choose this Sarah, so will it be.
— Karen   Clark
I sat with the broken; I whispered their names, I let them feel for the first time; serendipity, would change the vision they see for a day
— Nikki Rowe
It was painful to contemplate the distance between the future of accomplishment I'd imagined for myself twenty years earlier, and the reality...it was painful to understand that the cushion of exceptionality invoked by the drug had made me oblivious to my inertia. And it was painful to have to define myself again, at an age when most people are happy in their own skins.
— Ann Marlowe
Your life is your teacher and whatever comes to you is the work of your soul. Things are never as they appear on the surface. Your lessons are woven into your losses and challenges and only you can figure out what they mean and allow them to change you.
— Karen   Clark
Motivation is desire or inspiration. A motive is a reason. What's your reason?
— Rob Liano
Of the obstacles we face while traversing life, the most challenging are often the ones we create from within and project onto our path.
— Glenn A. Maltais
It’s sometimes difficult to align our wants with our needs, for old programing and new paradigms vibrate at very different levels.
— Glenn A. Maltais
You can no longer hide from me. I am your soul ache come to guide you home.
— Karen   Clark
When we assign ourselves the mission of changing others who show no want or need to change, it blocks our spirit-it drains us-and prevents us from attracting into our lives that which we need to grow.
— Charles F. Glassman, Brain Drain   The Breakthrough That Will Change Your Life
We sometimes just have to let things be.There are times in life that things happen, and we just cannot control them. There are times when we don't want things to happen, but they do. Things that we don't want to know, we learn. Times in which people we can't live without, we have to let go.The greatest learning is accepting what has, what is, and what will be. Remaining focussed on where we want to go, and how we want to get there. It might not go the way we planned, or the way we hoped it would be. No one said life would be easy, but at least we keep trying, and working hard at making it the best life it can be.
— Aisha Mirza
we all get waves of regret sometimesbut instead of dwelling on what you can’t change,start focusing on what you can.
— Alexandra Elle
As you develop, the people around you also develop. As you progress, the world progresses with you to a certain degree.
— Choa Kok Sui, Creative Transformation - The Golden Lotus Sutras on Spiritual Practice
Sometimes the best journeys are those, that start when we do not plan, continue how we do not expect and are taking us places we do not know.
— Aisha Mirza
One who is hungry for growth, doesn't requires motivation and training.. He just needs an opportunity...
— honeya
Grow in a way without losing much of our inner childlike deep senses embracing truthful, pure, simple relief of appreciation and gratitude.
— Angelica Hopes, Landscapes of a Heart, Whispers of a Soul
If not love, what?
— Rob Liano
You can grow softly, lovely and delicately amidst the hard surfaces. Not all who passed tougher times in life have a hard heart, kindness and tenderness do breathe despite of worse times.
— Angelica Hopes, Landscapes of a Heart, Whispers of a Soul
You can either grow or degenerate. Either of these is happening all around you, all the time. There is nothing called a "safe comfort zone". This is a convenient name depicting the process of degeneration.
— Manoj Arora, Happiness Unlimited: How to be happy always
If you wish to give chance on others' abilities and capabilities then give them respected time to grow and express themselves.Share a path for everyone to grow and glow!
— Angelica Hopes, Landscapes of a Heart, Whispers of a Soul
Have the capacity to adapt to change, it's your healthy growth, intelligently and emotionally.Our life can be full of extrinsic surprises, your flexibility is a key when you accept changes.
— Angelica Hopes, Landscapes of a Heart, Whispers of a Soul
Happiness is in all of us and it comes from progress. The root cause of a multiplier effect or a destroyer effect lies inside of us. The multiplication of the happiness in us on a daily basis makes us unique and powerful and gives us the reason for our existence." --Bimal Shah.
— Bimal Shah
I can feel my life changing and I’m not ready.
— Jennifer Elisabeth
Life is change. Growth is optional. Choose wisely.
— Miranda J. Barrett, A Woman's Truth: A Life Truly Worth Living
Some people say readin too many books will stunt your growth.
— Henry Dumas, Echo Tree: The Collected Short Fiction of Henry Dumas
You have to do your own growing, no matter how tall your grandmother was.
— Miranda J. Barrett, A Woman's Truth: A Life Truly Worth Living
The ability to live in a stable, safe environment that gives us the opportunity to create, grow and nurture our talents is sadly denied to many in the world today. I am proud to be able to say – as a leader – I can offer this to my people.
— Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum
Habits are familiar and comfortable, putting our reactions on autopilot and often leading us, instead, to great discomfort.
— Charles F. Glassman
My body is a political battlefield.It is a place of war, of death and suffering, of triumph and victory, of damage and repair, of blood and tears and sweat.It is a place where memories go to find purpose for their existence.It is a place where humans cast all inhibitions aside to discover what exists at their very core.It is a place of growth wearing a mask of destruction.It is a challenge, not for the faint of heart, beckoning us to face it with eyes wide open.The only war is within. When you are ready to fight it, the field awaits.
— Agnostic Zetetic
There" is not your dream, "here" is.. To create it, to become it and to live in it. The journey of your triumphs and setbacks are apart of the process now,stop getting ready to get ready and start living in the essence of your movements NOW.
— Nikki Rowe, Once a Girl, Now a Woman
A life I didn't choose chose me.
— Wally Lamb, We Are Water
All money does with an empty heart is allow you to be miserable in style.
— Stefan Molyneux
Sometimes violence cannot be stopped no matter what we do. But the more peaceful we are, the better chance we have of bringing out the peace in those around us.
— Judith Orloff, Second Sight
If at the moment when someone cuts us off in traffic or breaks our heart or begins bombing our ancestral village, we could withdraw from judging mode, and enter this other, more accepting mode, we could paradoxically, make ourselves more powerful. By resisting the urge to reduce, in order to subsequently destroy, we keep alive - if only for a few seconds more - the possibility of transformation. -The Thought Experiment
— George Saunders, The Braindead Megaphone
When you have a distaste for what is not yours, you have set the stage for what is yours.
— Paul Enenche
Any fight in life whether it is physical, mental, moral, or spiritual, how long you stay in the fight is highly dependent on your growth.
— Assegid Habtewold, The 9 Cardinal Building Blocks: For Continued Success in Leadership
Life is funny. We all have periods of ups and downs. Of silence and discovery. And then we begin to know who we are. Like watching a rose opening. Ah, we say. And once we do, the love and the wonder truly begin.
— Erin Kouvas
Another great example of the power of vulnerability -- this time in a corporation -- is the leadership approach taken by Lululemon's CEO, Christine Day. In a video interview with CNN Money, Day explained that she was once a very bright, smart executive who "majored in being right." Her transformation came when she realized that getting people to engage and take ownership wasn't about "the teling" but about letting them come into the idea in a purpose-led way, and that her job was creating the space for others to perform. She chracterized this change as the shift from "having the best idea or problem solving" to "being the best leader of people.
— Brené Brown, Daring Greatly: How the Courage to Be Vulnerable Transforms the Way We Live, Love, Parent, and Lead
When intent is rooted in pure love, you dreams will grown and manifest faster than you could ever imagine.
— Dawn Gluskin
Change what you can, accept what you can't, and be smart enough to know the difference.
— Wally Lamb, We Are Water
When we are in touch with our creativity, through passion and excitement, we always put ourselves in the most expansive state of consciousness. Fear slows down our development, while love supports a rapid growth.
— Raphael Zernoff
I have stretch marks on my heart.
— Bella Bloom
We should invest on our personal development not only to outgrow challenges but also maximize every opportunity that comes on our way.
— Assegid Habtewold, The 9 Cardinal Building Blocks: For Continued Success in Leadership
He who fears a positive purposeful change fears growth.
— Ernest Agyemang Yeboah, The Untapped Wonderer in You: Dare to Do the Undone
Life is more than not dying. Every living creature is born; it grows and dies. The pattern is the same, regardless of the span allotted. You build between the beginning and the end. What you build is yours. Nothing else is.
— Tom Deaderick, Flightpack
Great things are done when men and mountains meet; This is not done by jostling in the street. -William BlakeThis admirable couplet should be posted in conspicuous places all over England. The truth it embodies is threatened by two parties of opinion: on the one hand by those who hold it as a sin against nature to try and control the increase of population in any way and on the other by those who believe in 'growth', the pursuit at all costs of a standard of living which entails more and more industrialization and urbanization. If the believers in nature have their way, England will in the end be so full of people that they will be jostling each other even on mountains: if the believers in 'growth' have their way, the whole country will be covered with streets and we shall hardly be aware that mountains exist.
— David Cecil, Library Looking-Glass: A Personal Anthology
If you cannot be open-minded, then you do not possess your ideas, your ideas possess you.
— Bryant McGill, Simple Reminders: Inspiration for Living Your Best Life
Be like water making its way through cracks. Do not be assertive, but adjust to the object, and you shall find a way round or through it. If nothing within you stays rigid, outward things will disclose themselves.Empty your mind, be formless. Shapeless, like water. If you put water into a cup, it becomes the cup. You put water into a bottle and it becomes the bottle. You put it in a teapot it becomes the teapot. Now, water can flow or it can crash. Be water my friend.
— Bruce Lee
Be selfish and take good care of you first. When you are your best, you can best help others.
— Bryant McGill, Simple Reminders: Inspiration for Living Your Best Life
Each new step into his new human existence is frightening. It always means to give up a secure state, which was relatively known, for one which is new, which one has not yet mastered. Undoubtedly, if the infant could think at the moment of the severance of the umbilical cord, he would experience the fear of dying. A loving fate protects us from this first panic. But at any new step, at any new stage of our birth, we are afraid again. We are never free from two conflicting tendencies: one to emerge from the womb, from the animal form of existence into a more human existence, from bondage to freedom; another, to return to the womb, to nature, to certainty and security.
— Erich Fromm, The Sane Society
A truly educated man never ceases to learn. He never ceases to grow. I hope you women, as you take upon yourselves the burden of rearing families, will never set aside the desire to acquire knowledge.
— Gordon B. Hinckley, LDS Gems and Inspiration Quotes
When you've prepared, practiced, studied, and consistently put in the required effort, sooner or later you'll be presented with your own moment of truth. In that moment, you will define who you are and who you are becoming. It is in those moments where growth and improvement live--when we either step forward or shrink back, when we climb to the top of the podium and seize the medal or we continue to applaud sullenly from the crowd for others' victories.
— Darren Hardy, The Compound Effect: Jumpstart Your Income, Your Life, Your Success
Work to become whole enough to love and to be loved.
— Bryant McGill, Simple Reminders: Inspiration for Living Your Best Life
One of the most radical and revolutionary things you can do is grow your own food and eat from the land.
— Bryant McGill, Simple Reminders: Inspiration for Living Your Best Life
Even when change is elective, it will disorient you. You may go through anxiety. You will miss aspects of your former life. It doesn’t matter. The trick is to know in advance of making any big change that you’re going to be thrown off your feet by it. So you prepare for this inevitable disorientation and steady yourself to get through it. Then you take the challenge, make the change, and achieve your dream.
— Harvey MacKay
Persistence is the most traveled path to success.
— Bryant McGill, Simple Reminders: Inspiration for Living Your Best Life
The struggle is beautiful.
— Bryant McGill, Simple Reminders: Inspiration for Living Your Best Life
Do not be limited by the judgements of others.
— Bryant McGill, Simple Reminders: Inspiration for Living Your Best Life
As our heart soars, we fly with it! Let love take you places!
— Bryant McGill, Simple Reminders: Inspiration for Living Your Best Life
Real success sometimes involves saying no to growth, expansion and gain.
— Bryant McGill, Simple Reminders: Inspiration for Living Your Best Life
Change takes time. It takes time for the seeds to begin growing within, time to understand and process, time for the growth to mature, and time for the old self to die and fall away.
— Bryant McGill, Simple Reminders: Inspiration for Living Your Best Life