Quotes about Growth

The struggles don't define you. It's how you handle them that determines who you are.

In terms of my own life and the mistakes I made and the struggles I had, I'm grateful for them. It taught me more than success and opportunity ever did.

I wrote 'Option B' because I want other people to know it can get better, and I want to help people make it better.

I just love Ottawa because I was able to develop a lot of things, my own character as a man.

The way I ought to measure my life is in terms of the others I helped to become better and happier people. That's the biggest thing to think about if you're not happy.

We must get to the point in our lives. What is the point? To become a new kind of man or woman, having inner command and outer excellence.

Spiritual formation is for everyone. Just as there is an 'outer you' that is being formed and shaped all the time, like it or not, by accident or on purpose, so there is an 'inner you.' You have a spirit.

We're not going to outgrow our need for information.

Every time you learn a new language, your understanding of language overall grows, so every time I would learn new music, my understanding of music would grow because I was taken to an extreme in a different direction, and that was, in effect, carrying over into what I do.

We get what we deserve in life, and the challenges and evils that come are opportunities to overcome.

As we're growing closer to God, I ask people to decide when God wants them to stay planted exactly where they are.

What is a child? Ignorance. What is a child? Want of instruction.