Quotes about Growth

My dream became bigger and bigger. And the box got bigger than the message, than the Gospel.

Well, today, the diocese is more than ever a microcosm.

Failure is not fatal, but failure to change might be.

Failure is never fatal. But failure to change can and might be.

Run The Jewels, me and Mike, and our connection and everything, came out of a period of time where I had personally lost everything.

With increasing age, dullness of mind and heart sets in.

We'd all like to increase pleasure and minimize pain, but the truth is, suffering, even collective suffering that we're going through, is often the earmark that some real change is happening.

You don't have to run anywhere to become someone else.

Transforming the past is possible, thanks to meditation practice.

Beginning anew" means being determined not to repeat the negative things we have done in the past. A new era begins when we commit ourselves to living in mindfulness. When we vow to ourselves, "I am determined not to behave as I did in the past," transformation occurs immediately.

if we face unpleasant feelings with care, affection, we can transform them to the kind that is healthy and that nourishes us.

I can assure you that there is the greatest practical benefit in making a few failures early in life. You learn that which is of inestimable importance — that there are a great many people in the world who are just as clever as you are.