Quotes about Growth

We must become the change we want to see.

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

This horror of pain is a rather low instinct and... if I think of human beings I've known and of my own life, such as it is, I can't recall any case of pain which didn't, on the whole, enrich life.

Children have a lesson adults should learn, to not be ashamed of failing, but to get up and try again. Most of us adults are so afraid, so cautious, so 'safe,' and therefore so shrinking and rigid and afraid that it is why so many humans fail. Most middle-aged adults have resigned themselves to failure.

To morrow to fresh Woods, and Pastures new.

Out of such prison, though Spirits of purest light,   Purest at first, now gross by sinning grown.

but to create Is greater than created to destroy.

I am not what I ought to be, I am not what I want to be, I am not what I hope to be in another world; but still I am not what I once used to be, and by the grace of God I am what I am

One of the hardest things in the world is to stop being the prodigal son without turning into the elder brother.

When God calls people to do something, their initial response is almost always fear. If there is a challenge in front of you, a course of action that could cause you to grow and that would be helpful to people around you, but you find yourself scared about it, there's a real good chance that God is in that challenge.

God's purpose in guidance is not to get us to perform the right actions. His purpose is to help us become the right kind of people.

Consider the sense of fulfillment in the leaders of a company that is expanding, achieving its mission, giving vocational opportunities to men and women who yesterday didn't have any. They are watching the miracle