5,371 Quotes About Growth

We all have our states of fullness and of emptiness, but we overflow at different points. One overflows through the sensual outlets, another through his heart, another through his head, and another perchance only through the higher part of his head, or his poetic faculty. It depends on where each is tight and open. We can, perchance, then direct our nutriment to those organs we specially use.

Healing—takes time,and—so does—not healing.Chose—how you spend your time —wisely.

Let's not grow with our roots in the ground.

Perhaps I occasionally sought to give, or inadvertently gave, to the student a sense of battle on the intellectual battlefield. If all you do is to give them a faultless and complete and uninhabited architectural masterpiece, then you do not help them to become builders of their own.

Courage is the power to let go of the familiar.

Scars prove that you're still here. That you can move on. Maybe missing a chunk of yourself, but here, goddamn it, surviving.

The Personal SonnetIf you want to be heard,You must learn to listen.If you want to be trusted,You must keep trustin'.If you want to grow,You must first evolve.If you want to be happy,Let yourself dissolve.If you want to smile,You must learn to give.If you want to lead,Help others to live.Law of the jungle is self-preservation.Law of society is collective ascension.

Your footsteps will have more to say about your spiritual life than knowledge attained.

When you see people only as personalities, rather than souls with life missions to fulfill, you forever limit the growth and possibilities of what God has in store for another person.