Quotes about Growth

Get the right people on the bus, get the wrong people off the bus, and then get the right people in the right seats on the bus.

Difficulties come not to obstruct, but to instruct.

There is a special way that you can accelerate your progress toward becoming the highly productive, effective, efficient person that you want to be.

To develop a quality that you lack, act as if you already had that quality in every situation where it is called for. In modern terms, however, we say, "Fake it until you make it".

Sometimes we need to let go of things in our lives to make room for better things. Stress less and live more. Don't waste your energy, when you have the choice to be happy.

That many do not advance in the Christian progress because they stick in penances, and particular exercises, while they neglect the love of God, which is the end . That this appeared plainly by their works, and was the reason why we see so little solid virtue.

Sometimes broken things deserve to be repaired.

Tuttu tunne: sitä haluaa takertua menneeseen ja olla samanlainen kuin aina ennenkin, koska eteenpäin siirtyminen on liian pelottavaa.

It is precisely our plasticity, our long childhood, that prevents a slavish adherence to genetically programmed behavior in human beings more than in any other species.

In any case, we do not advance the human cause by refusing to consider ideas that make us frightened.

Our very existence in that distant time requires that we will have changed our institutions and ourselves.

We are, each of us, largely responsible for what gets put into our brains, for what, as adults, we wind up caring for and knowing about. No longer at the mercy of the reptile brain, we can change ourselves.