Quotes about Growth

I don't regret what I've been through. I've had ups and downs, super highs and some really low lows. I've been so blessed that I could never say, 'I wish this didn't happen.' It's part of who I am. There's nothing in my life that's so ugh.

Take stock of your thoughts and behavior. Each night ask yourself, when were you negative when you could have been positive? When did you withhold love when you might have given it? When did you play a neurotic game instead of behaving in a powerful way? Use this process to self-correct.

A soul which gives itself to prayer, either much or little, should on no account be kept within narrow bounds.

So many people grew up with challenges, as I did. There weren't always happy things happening to me or around me. But when you look at the core of goodness within yourself - at the optimism and hope - you realize it comes from the environment you grew up in.

Without change, something sleeps inside us, and seldom awakens. The sleeper must awaken.

It's amazing what ordinary people can do if they set out without preconceived notions.

A gem cannot be polished without friction, nor a man perfected without trials.

There is no birth of consciousness without pain.

If you begin to understand what you are without trying to change it, then what you are undergoes a transformation.

Give up the belief that mind is, even temporarily, compressed within the skull, and you will quickly become more manly or womanly. You will understand yourself and your Maker better than before.

I'm for people bettering themselves, no matter who they are and where they are, doing all they can to be all they can be.

We can't have full knowledge all at once. We must start by believing; then afterwards we may be led on to master the evidence for ourselves.