Quotes about Growth

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.

I was learning, as I did in the Ministry of Defense. I never knew, but I always learned.

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.

Every day is lost in which we do not learn something useful. Man has no nobler or more valuable possession than time.

There is a ripeness of time for death, regarding others as well as ourselves, when it is reasonable we should drop off, and make room for another growth. When we have lived our generation out, we should not wish to encroach on another.

If you want something you've never had, you must be willing to do something you've never done.

Every moment and every event of everyman's life on earth plants something in his soul. For just as the wind carries thousands of winged seeds, so each moment brings with it germs of spiritual vitality that come to rest imperceptibly in the minds and wills of men.