Growth is often the parent or the child of pain.

We are often robbed of an opportunity to grow by being helped.

After a certain point, all natural bodily changes are for the worst.

It is impossible to become the best version of yourself if you do not read, exercise, and meditate.

Change is not always a bad thing: it sometimes takes the form of progress. And is not always a good thing: it sometimes takes the form of regress.

It is often a result of growth not to be known by someone who once knew you.

Being told that you have not changed is not always a compliment.

Just like how most if not all poor boys look up to and aspire to someday be rich men, most if not all underdeveloped and developing countries look up to and aspire to someday be developed countries.

Life is a process during which one initially gets less and less dependent, independent, and then more and more dependent.