5,371 Quotes About Growth

Nothing is more foreign than the world of one's childhood when one has truly left it.

Well done, Spin," Cobb said over a private line. "You have the passion. Now you're showing restraint.

If the pushing-yourself-forward is the engine, then the patting-yourself-on-the-back should be the oil to keep going.

Practicing what you preach is a lot more difficult than preaching what you practice.

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.

It's better to change and adapt, than to complain and remain.

Growth has spiritual and organic aspects; the spiritual part has to do with maturity, knowledge, wisdom, perspective and attitude adjustment. While the organic part accounts for increase, expansion, multiplication, and addition of the territory we have.

This life therefore is not righteousness, but growth in righteousness, not health, but healing, not being but becoming, not rest but exercise. We are not yet what we shall be, but we are growing toward it, the process is not yet finished, but it is going on, this is not the end, but it is the road. All does not yet gleam in glory, but all is being purified.

Letti wasn’t born to pass through the world. She had been born to sit atop of it.