Quotes about growth

Once you realize there is no real destination and life is a constant state of evolution you'll actually start to find peace.

Knowledge and ego are directly related. The less the knowledge, the greater the ego.

When it feels scary to jump, that is exactly when you jump, otherwise you end up staying in the same place your whole life.

You're not tired, just scared to begin. Starting feels heavy, but so does regret. One small step is all it takes for life to start moving again.

Look at your wardrobe. Your routines. Your meals. Your home. Ask yourself if they reflect the person you want to be. If not, start editing.

Every pattern in your life repeats until you learn the lesson. The moment you choose differently, the loop ends and growth begins.

If you want to go for a run, go for a run, don't look for company. Sooner or later, on your fifth run or your twentieth, like minded people will find you themselves.

The most creative act, is the act of creating yourself.

What a privilege it is to grow into someone I used to need.

Waste no more time arguing about what a good man should be. Be one.

What does not kill me makes me stronger.

No man ever steps in the same river twice.

Knowing others is wisdom; knowing yourself is enlightenment.

Nothing great is produced suddenly, since not even the grape or the fig is.

The journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step.

When you have faults, do not fear to abandon them.

Your pain is the breaking of the shell that encloses your understanding. Even as the stone of the fruit must break, that its heart may stand in the sun, so must you know pain.

He who is in love is wise and is becoming wiser, sees newly every time he looks at the object beloved, drawing from it with his eyes and his mind those virtues which it possesses.

Against that positivism which stops before phenomena, saying "there are only facts," I should say: no, it is precisely facts that do not exist, only interpretations.

Instruction does much, but encouragement everything.

An idea that is not dangerous is unworthy of being called an idea at all.

Your vision will become clear only when you can look into your own heart. Who looks outside dreams; who looks inside awakes.

The meeting of two personalities is like the contact of two chemical substances: if there is any reaction, both are transformed.

Seldom, or perhaps never, does a marriage develop into an individual relationship smoothly and without crises; there is no coming to consciousness without pain.

The secret is that only that which can destroy itself is truly alive.

Man needs difficulties; they are necessary for health.

The best thing you can do for your family, your children, society, and the world around you is to enhance yourself.

There are no limits. There are plateaus, but you must not stay there, you must go beyond them.

All types of knowledge ultimately mean self knowledge.

Life itself is your teacher, and you are in a state of constant learning.

Each man had only one genuine vocation — to find the way to himself.

I realize today that nothing in the world is more distasteful to a man than to take the path that leads to himself.

The bird fights its way out of the egg. The egg is the world. Who would be born must first destroy a world.

Wisdom is born of meditation; without meditation wisdom is lost.

To cease from evil, to do good, and to purify the mind — this is the teaching of all the Buddhas.

As long as you live, keep learning how to live.

What is great in man is that he is a bridge and not a goal.

One must still have chaos in oneself to give birth to a dancing star.

The secret for harvesting from existence the greatest fruitfulness and the greatest enjoyment is to live dangerously!

It is the act of an ill-instructed man to blame others for his own bad condition; it is the act of one who has begun to be instructed, to lay the blame on himself; and of one whose instruction is completed, neither to blame another, nor himself.

Only the educated are free.

To attain knowledge, add things every day. To attain wisdom, remove things every day.

Sell your cleverness and buy bewilderment. Cleverness is mere opinion, bewilderment intuition.

If you are irritated by every rub, how will your mirror be polished?

God turns you from one feeling to another and teaches by means of opposites, so that you will have two wings to fly, not one.

Come, seek, for search is the foundation of fortune: Every success depends upon focusing the heart.

There is no worse sickness for the soul, O you who are proud, than this pretense of perfection.

If you wish to shine like day, burn up the night of self-existence. Dissolve in the Being who is everything.

Whoever enters the Way without a guide will take a hundred years to travel a two-day journey.

At fifteen my heart was set on learning; at thirty I stood firm; at forty I had no more doubts.

Reviewing what you have learned and learning anew, you are fit to be a teacher.

Learning without thought is labor lost; thought without learning is perilous.

When we see men of worth, we should think of equaling them; when we see men of a contrary character, we should turn inwards and examine ourselves.

When I walk along with two others, they may serve me as my teachers.

All men by nature desire to know.

Our characters are the result of our conduct.

Hope is the dream of a waking man.

Imagination is more important than knowledge. Knowledge is limited. Imagination encircles the world.

I have no special talents. I am only passionately curious.

What I really need is to get clear about what I must do, not what I must know.

When we are no longer able to change a situation, we are challenged to change ourselves.

What man actually needs is not a tensionless state but rather the striving and struggling for some goal worthy of him.

She believed she could, so she did.

A true soul mate is a mirror, the person who shows you everything that is holding you back.

The comeback is always stronger than the setback.

That's one small step for man, one giant leap for mankind.

We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars.

Every flower must grow through dirt.

Be the energy you want to attract.

A reader lives a thousand lives before he dies. The man who never reads lives only one.

Healing is not linear.

Bloom where you are planted.

Good things take time.

Education is the most powerful weapon which you can use to change the world.

The greatest glory in living lies not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall.

Everybody is a genius. But if you judge a fish by its ability to climb a tree, it will live its whole life believing that it is stupid.

Stay hungry, stay foolish.

So many books, so little time.

Live as if you were to die tomorrow. Learn as if you were to live forever.

The wound is the place where the Light enters you.

I am not what happened to me, I am what I choose to become.

The impediment to action advances action. What stands in the way becomes the way.

Associate with people who are likely to improve you.

Difficulties strengthen the mind, as labor does the body.

It is impossible for a man to learn what he thinks he already knows.

The important thing is not to stop questioning. Curiosity has its own reason for existing.

Absorb what is useful, discard what is useless, and add what is specifically your own.

Mistakes are always forgivable, if one has the courage to admit them.

You gain strength, courage and confidence by every experience in which you really stop to look fear in the face.

Vulnerability is the birthplace of love, belonging, joy, courage, empathy, and creativity.

Vulnerability sounds like truth and feels like courage.

Life shrinks or expands in proportion to one’s courage.

Early to bed and early to rise makes a man healthy, wealthy, and wise.

At the touch of love everyone becomes a poet.

There is only one good, knowledge, and one evil, ignorance.

Great things are not done by impulse, but by a series of small things brought together.

The measure of intelligence is the ability to change.

The one who falls and gets up is so much stronger than one who never fell.

You are never too old to set another goal or to dream a new dream.

Experience is the hardest kind of teacher. It gives you the test first and the lesson afterward.

You can’t go back and change the beginning, but you can start where you are and change the ending.

I am not afraid of storms, for I am learning how to sail my ship.

If you surrendered to the air, you could ride it.

I am among those who think that science has great beauty.

Be less curious about people and more curious about ideas.

One child, one teacher, one book and one pen can change the world.

Your story is what you have, what you will always have. It is something to own.

One is not born, but rather becomes, a woman.

Strengthen the female mind by enlarging it, and there will be an end to blind obedience.

Virtue can only flourish among equals.

Goodness is connected with the attempt to see the unself, to see and to respond to the real world.

Have the courage to use your own understanding; this is the motto of the Enlightenment.

It is not enough to have a good mind; the main thing is to use it well.

In order to seek truth, it is necessary once in the course of our life to doubt, as far as possible, all things.

Living is the trade I want to teach him.

When we read, another person thinks for us: we merely repeat his mental process.

Every man takes the limits of his own field of vision for the limits of the world.

Existence precedes essence.

The limits of my language mean the limits of my world.

It is better to be a human being dissatisfied than a pig satisfied; better to be Socrates dissatisfied than a fool satisfied.

A man's character is his fate.

The sun is new every day.