Growth Life Quotes

Much like life, you don't complete a puzzle by throwing away the pieces. ~ Craig D. Lounsbrough

Life is a progression of becoming who we are. ~ J.R. Rim

To heal our world we must be silent; willing to listen to the roars of the wounded. We must teach eachother how to feel, only than can an entire nation grow in peace, as the war within will slowly diminish. ~ Nikki Rowe

To think how different ones life would be had one moment not altered it all - just don't sit there too long or you'll self sabotage all your growth. ~ Nikki Rowe

Movement turns dead dogs into maggots and daisies, and flour butter sugar an egg and a tablespoon of milk into Abernethy biscuits, and spermatozoa and ovaries into fishy little plants growing babyward if we take no care to stop them. ~ Alasdair Gray

Life includes unforeseen incidents that prove critical to promote personal growth. Life rarely gives us what we want. We are lucky if life gives us what we need in order to fulfill the path that was in place at our birthing. ~ Kilroy J. Oldster

You have to go through those mountains and valleys - because that's what life is: soul growth. ~ Wayne Newton

You must welcome change as the rule but not as your ruler. ~ Denis Waitley

Tough love may be tough to give, but it is a necessity of life and assurance of positive growth. ~ T.F. Hodge

When a woman is full of cockiness, I wonder what makes her so insecure.
When a man is full of ego, I wonder what he's holding onto. ~ Nikki Rowe

If you make it right with yourself, it will be right with the whole world. ~ Bryant McGill

I can feel my life changing and I'm not ready. ~ Jennifer Elisabeth

Change is constant and always happening...The more flexible we are, the more we can benefit from life's changes that occurs. ~ Dionna L. Hayden

If you were all alone in the universe with no one to talk to, no one with which to share the beauty of the stars, to laugh with, to touch, what would be your purpose in life? It is other life; it is love, which gives your life meaning. This is harmony. We must discover the joy of each other, the joy of challenge, the joy of growth. ~ Mitsugi Saotome

Your life will consist of a series of times when you must reinvent yourself. We desperately cling to the idea that things should stay the same, but life and growth are about change. Don't mistake the end of a chapter for the end of the story. Lean into the plot changes, and follow your character arc. If you are in a dark part of your tale, know that this night will not last forever, but you must be brave enough to see it through. This is not the end, oh no my friend. Take courage. Better things await you. ~ John Mark Green

Don't force it, if there isn't flow let it go. ~ Nikki Rowe

We've observed that people who stall in their personal growth work often have counterproductive soft addictions that stand in their way of growth and having the life they say they want. It can be a simple thing, such as watching TV instead of finishing a project. ~ Judith Wright

We cannot carve or forcibly preserve
or cultivate belief. If it will grow, it grows
as we do - mostly after we have fallen ~ Jennifer Clarvoe

There is no steady unretracing progress in this life; we do not advance through fixed gradations, and at the last one pause: - through infancy's unconscious spell, boyhood's thoughtless faith, adolescence' doubt (the common doom). and then scepticism, then disbelief, resting at last in manhood's pondering repose of If. ~ Herman Melville

Life does not always give you what you want, but if you look closely you will see that it gives what you need for growth. ~ Leon Brown

Thank you to my past oppressors. The scars you left behind taught me to view pain differently... ~ Astrid Ferguson

This is your life and you have the right and responsibility to make good decisions for yourself. ~ Bryant McGill

Your greatest responsibility is to live a life that nourishes your highest truth. ~ Mollie Marti

Manifestation is like a flower, you must put so much intent into its energy before you can sight its beauty. ~ Nikki Rowe

There's always something coming. Good or bad, it's going to force you to grow. ~ Robert Tew

All humans change. Development is our life. Transition, in labor, is the most painful time. Without change, there's no growth. ~ Mimi Kennedy

I believe that life is basically a process of growth-that we go through many lives, choosing those situations and problems that we will learn through. ~ Jim Henson

We are all alone, born alone, die alone, and - in spite of True Romance magazines - we shall all someday look back on our lives and see that, in spite of our company, we were alone the whole way. I do not say lonely - at least, not all the time - but essentially, and finally, alone. This is what makes your self-respect so important, and I don't see how you can respect yourself if you must look in the hearts and minds of others for your happiness. ~ Hunter S. Thompson

Human love is the shadow of the Great love; its child. And of all human loves, it is romantic love which has the most riveting effect upon our soul. Ageless and perennial, it is forever finding an outlet in poetry, music, dance, story-telling, and the media. We never tire of it. It commands attention at so many turns, such is the longing for its presence in our life. It is not by accident that it has such an unfailing pull on our psyche. If we cannot connect with visible human love, we will not be able to find the invisible Love. Human love is leading us, most of us unknowingly, straight to the divinity of our own nature. And that nature leads us, in turn, to the source of life itself. ~ Donna Goddard

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

Life is a race, and what matters most isn't when a person crosses the finish line, but how strong they've grown along the way. ~ Jen Stephens

Growth and change were viewed as reactions to conditions met ~ Gregory Maguire

Seed Leaves

Homage to R. F.

Here something stubborn comes,

Dislodging the earth crumbs

And 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, heaves

Aloft, and spreads two leaves

Which still display no sure

And special signature.

Toothless and fat, they keep

The oval form of sleep.



This plant would like to grow

And yet be embryo;

In crease, and yet escape

The doom of taking shape;

Be vaguely vast, and climb

To the tip end of time

With all of space to fill,

Like boundless Igdrasil

That has the stars for fruit.



But something at the root

More urgent that the urge

Bids two true leaves emerge;

And now the plant, resigned

To being self-defined

Before it can commerce

With the great universe,

Takes aim at all the sky

And starts to ramify. ~ Richard Wilbur

Nietzsche was the one who did the job for me. At a certain moment in his life,the idea came to him of what he called 'the love of your fate.' Whatever your fate is, whatever the hell happens, you say, 'This is what I need.' It may look like a wreck, but go at it as though it were an opportunity, a challenge. If you bring love to that moment--not discouragement--you will find the strength is there. Any disaster you can survive is an improvement in your character, your stature, and your life. What a privilege! This is when the spontaneity of your own nature will have a chance to flow.

Then, when looking back at your life, you will see that the moments which seemed to be great failures followed by wreckage were the incidents that shaped the life you have now. You'll see that this is really true. Nothing can happen to you that is not positive. Even though it looks and feels at the moment like a negative crisis, it is not. The crisis throws you back, and when you are required to exhibit strength, it comes. ~ Joseph Campbell

I encountered a large temporary sign declaring Rough Road Ahead, and indeed it was. Had I not been warned, that experience would have been disastrous. Life is like that. It's full of rough spots. Some are tests to make us stronger. Others result from our own disobedience ... Each one of us encounters unique challenges meant for growth. ~ Richard G. Scott

An artist is a sort of emotional or spiritual historian. His role is to make you realize the doom and glory of knowing who you are and what you are. He has to tell, because nobody else in the world can tell, what it is like to be alive. All I've ever wanted to do is tell that, I'm not trying to solve anybody's problems, not even my own. I'm just trying to outline what the problems are.

I want to be stretched, shook up, to overreach myself, and to make you feel that way too. ~ James Baldwin

4.07 WALK OF LIFE
A candle without fire cannot be burning,
Man without a spiritual life cannot be living,
Yet sitting quietly and nothing even if doing,
Spring will come and grass will be growing.
[76] - 4 ~ Munindra Misra

If I knew what I know today, years ago, I wouldn't change a thing about anything. I would not have appreciated what I know today if it hadn't been for what I didn't know. ~ E. Obeng-Amoako Edmonds

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

When you finally make it, when you finally reach your level of greatness, the years of struggle that consumed you will all be swallowed up as if they were a moment in time. And you will come to realize that greatness was not the end result of being un-great, but that you demonstrated greatness every day along the way. #greatness ~ Tiffany Dorese Winfree

Where there is age there is evolution, where there is life there is growth. ~ Anjelica Huston

After a breakup, it takes a couple weeks for the fog to settle, but it's always a period of self-priority and growth. Life presents you with so many decisions. A lot of times, they're right in front of your face and they're really difficult, but we must make them. ~ Brittany Murphy

It takes courage and maturity to realise your own story. ~ Horst Kornberger

We grow the aspects of our lives that we feed – with energy and engagement – and choke off those we deprive of fuel. Your life is what you agree to attend to. ~ Jim Loehr

What can we take on trust in this uncertain life? Happiness, greatness, pride - nothing is secure, nothing keeps. ~ Euripides

I do not think that I will ever reach a stage when I will say, "This is what I believe. Finished." What I believe is alive ... and open to growth ~ Madeleine L'Engle

When we refuse to work with our disappointment, we break the Precepts: rather than experience the disappointment, we resort to anger, greed, gossip, criticism. Yet it's the moment of being that disappointment which is fruitful; and, if we are not willing to do that, at least we should notice that we are not willing. The moment of disappointment in life is an incomparable gift that we receive many times a day if we're alert. This gift is always present in anyone's life, that moment when 'It's not the way I want it! ~ Charlotte Joko Beck

The whole world is determined by trade - which is really the blood of the world. The driving force is everyone's desire to have a better life. How? By consuming. For countries, the 'Holy Grail' is economic growth. ~ Yann Arthus-Bertrand

There is an hidden energy in a child that works in all areas of growth and development ~ Sunday Adelaja

Run after truth until you're breathless. Accept the pain involved in re-creating yourself afresh. These ideas will take a life to comprehend, a hard one interspersed with drunken moments. ~ Naguib Mahfouz

The demon that you can swallow gives you its power, and the greater life's pain, the greater life's reply. ~ Joseph Campbell

The struggle you're in today is developing the strength you need for tomorrow. Don´t give up. ~ Robert Tew

The constant abrasion and decay of our lives makes the soil of our future growth. ~ Henry David Thoreau

Enhancement not only allows the possibilities of a healthy fullness and exuberance, but of a rather ominous extravagance, aberration, monstrosity ... This danger is built into the very nature of growth and life. Growth can become over-growth, life 'hyper-life' ... The paradox of an illness which can present as wellness - as a wonderful feeling of health and well-being, and only later reveal its malignant potentials - is one of the chimaeras, tricks and ironies of nature. ~ Oliver Sacks

Balance in life is the key to everything. ~ Bryant McGill

I have always looked upon decay as being just as wonderful and rich an expression of life as growth. ~ Henry Miller

Spirits arrive at this world in naked bodies, their purpose - to grow wings. ~ Xue Yun

We do not grow absolutely, chronologically. We grow sometimes in one dimension, and not in another; unevenly. We grow partially. We are relative. We are mature in one realm, childish in another. The past, present, and future mingle and pull us backward, forward, or fix us in the present. We are made up of layers, cells, constellations. ~ Anais Nin

Life is about growth and change. When you are no longer doing that - that is your whisper; that is your whisper that you are supposed to do something else. ~ Oprah Winfrey

Sometimes you can grow more in a shorter amount of time with the right company than years of soul-searching alone, or by living the same patterns you've lived for your entire life. ~ A.J. Darkholme

Life can take so many twists and turns. You can't ever count yourself out. Even if you're really afraid at some point, you can't think that there's no room for you to grow and do something good with your life. ~ Portia De Rossi

I'm all about the little moments, don't get me wrong the big life changing moments will never be outnumbered - those are the experiences we name chapter after, but for me, its the little moments that i write entire stories about. ~ Nikki Rowe

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

Your self-imposed prison. That think called your COMFORT ZONE. Challenge it, stretch it. You will thank yourself. ~ Tony Curl

Focus on faith and grow your roots strong and deep so no one can make you believe in something that is not good for your soul. ~ Molly Friedenfeld

Enthusiastic people take action rather than setting up roadblocks or distractions. What helps grow enthusiasm and build momentum is having a clear vision of what motivates you, which will help you remain focused. ~ Farshad Asl

I saw my earlier selves as different people, acquaintances I had outgrown. I wondered how I could ever have been some of them. ~ Roger Zelazny

The most important result of the efforts of a man is the effort of self-development and continuous growth ~ Sunday Adelaja

Faith is born and sustained by the Word of God, and out of faith grows the flower of joy. ~ John Piper

A single water drop contains all the necessary building blocks needed for life. ~ Anthony T. Hincks.

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

Life is such that beginnings and endings are neither. For in fact, they perpetually lay the groundwork for the other. ~ Craig D. Lounsbrough

She didn't struggle and so she didn't grow ~ Paulo Coelho

You know you are truly alive, when you care for every living thing. One day soon, it will be the norm to view others not as competition, but gifts to share this gorgeous planet with, and we will not be able to imagine the loss of but one. ~ Tom Althouse

The thing about trees is that they know what to do. When a leaf loses its colour, it's not because its time is up and it's dying, it's because the tree is taking back into itself the nutrients the leaf's been holding in reserve for it, out there on the twig, and why leaves change colour in autumn is because the tree is preparing for winter, it's filling itself with its own stored health so it can withstand the season. Then, clever tree, it literally pushes the used leaf off with the growth that's coming behind it. But because that growth has to protect itself through winter too, the tree fills the little wound in its branch or twig where the leaf was with a protective corky stuff which seals it against cold and bacteria.
Otherwise every leaf lost would be an open wound on a tree and a single tree would be covered in thousands of little wounds.
Clever trees. ~ Ali Smith

Depression lives and grows in the swamp of need. ~ Bryant McGill

It is important that you never place limitations on learning, personal growth, traveling, reading and making a positive difference in your life and others. ~ Tasha Hoggatt

Everything that drowned me taught me how to swim. ~ Jenim Dibie

Way for new, winter taking away the remnants of the old to clear room for the young growth. Life, in other words, in all its fierce beauty and stark routine. All things went to the soil eventually. It was the way of life. ~ Diana Palmer

The number one reason why people stay stuck is because they cannot accept that they are stuck. Accept that you are stuck, that something needs to change, that you have plateaued, and that you have stopped growing. Realize and understand who and where you are in life. ~ Farshad Asl

Change is Growth, Movement is Change; keep on moving, keep on growing. ~ Vikrmn

Don't allow others to make you feel small. You came to this world to grow and to explore and touch the miracles and marvels of life. ~ Bryant McGill

Once upon a time, when I was young, his forgetting might have rendered my memory meaningless. I no longer require so much from life. ~ Abigail Thomas

Who can tell? It may be that there must always be growth - and that if one does not grow kinder and wiser and greater, then the growth must be the other way, fostering the evil things. Or it may be that the life they all led was too shut in, too folded back upon itself - without breadth or vision. Or it may be that, like a disease of crops, it is contagious, that first one and then another is sickened. ~ Agatha Christie

If you can train yourself to be actionable instead of reactionary, you will break out of the negative space that is typically furnished with fear, uncertainty and inaction, and move into that peaceful zone of determination, power, decisiveness and growth. Life will become less complicated. ~ Carlos Wallace

Self-destruction and self-sabotage are often just the start of the self-resurrection process. ~ Oli Anderson

You never know what's going to be in the garden in June when you're looking at it in January. ~ Corey Ann Haydu

Only when the seeker is lost, the truth is there. Seek, and you will miss. Seek not, and you will find. The very seeking becomes a barrier to truth, to the ultimate experience. ~ Swami Dhyan Giten

Mistakes are the portals of discovery. ~ James Joyce

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

Endings are a part of life, and we are actually wired to execute them. But because of trauma, developmental failures, and other reasons, we shy away from the steps that could open up whole new worlds of development and growth. ~ Henry Cloud

The joy of life consists in the exercise of one's energies, continual growth, constant change, the enjoyment of every new experience. To stop means simply to die. The eternal mistake of mankind is to set up an attainable ideal. ~ Aleister Crowley

Sometimes we have to dig a little deeper, to reach a little higher. ~ A.C. Anderson

His life coiled back into the brown murk of the past like a twined filament of electric wire; he gave life, a pattern, and movement to these million sensations that Chance, the loss or gain of a moment, the turn of the head, the enormous and aimless impulsion of accident, had thrust into the blazing heat of him. His mind picked out in white living brightness these pinpoints of experience and the ghostliness of all things else became more awful because of them. So many of the sensations that returned to open haunting vistas of fantasy and imagining had been caught from a whirling landscape through the windows of the train.

And it was this that awed him - the weird combination of fixity and change, the terrible moment of immobility stamped with eternity in which, passing life at great speed, both the observer and the observed seem frozen in time. There was one moment of timeless suspension when the land did not move, the train did not move, the slattern in the doorway did not move, he did not move. It was as if God had lifted his baton sharply above the endless orchestration of the seas, and the eternal movement had stopped, suspended in the timeless architecture of the absolute. Or like those motion-pictures that describe the movements of a swimmer making a dive, or a horse taking a hedge - movement is petrified suddenly in mid-air, the inexorable completion of an act is arrested. Then, completing its parabola, the suspended body plops down into the pool. Only, ~ Thomas Wolfe

Save what you can toward the emergency and life happens fund. But don't worry yourself sick at the slow growth. The point is it's growing even it's just one dollar at at time. ~ Michelle Singletary

To realise your ambitions, you must take a few minutes each day to meditate on your ultimate goal, not doing anything, just thinking about it. You must try to imagine how you will feel when you achieve your dreams, and that feeling is like a memo in the mind reminding your subconscious to stay the course. ~ Chloe Thurlow

Life demands growth ~ Sunday Adelaja

...as we mature, we begin to realize that life in the Box remains the same, with few deviations from this norm. ~ Heidi Reagan

To live is to grow. ~ Vironika Tugaleva

A lot of people desire to go to their next level but only a few are determined to grow to their next level ~ Saji Ijiyemi