Quotes about Growth

We're not at the mountaintop until any zone is comfortable. Love isn't love until it's unconditional.

Think something isn't good enough, and it never will be. Think something is wonderful, and it will only get better.

Looking for Mr. Right leads to desperation because there is no Mr. Right. There is no Mr. Right because there is no Mr. Wrong. There is whoever is in front of us, and the perfect lessons to be learned from that person.

Until we heal the child we used to be, the adult we want to be doesn't stand a chance.

A moment of crisis can be a moment of growth, as the wounded self prepares to transform. From the chrysalis of my pain, I will forge my healing—the wings of my newborn self.

Midlife is about surrendering things that no longer matter, not because our lives are in decline, but because they're on an incline

Yet being with that dissonance is important; it is our soul work. The purpose of our lives is to close the gap between what could be and what too often is.

Today I accept myself as I am.

past. She is conceived in consciousness, born in love, and nurtured by higher thinking. She is integrity and value, created and sustained by the hard work of personal growth and the discipline of a life lived actively in hope. Build community. Nurture those less fortunate. Become yourself. Seek God. No less potent steps than these will be deep enough to move you forward.

Someone with whom we have a lifetime's worth of lessons to learn is someone whose presence in our lives forces us to grow.

One of the ideas we must agree on and continue to forge with individual and collective vigor is that a woman's life goes uphill at forty.

Practice kindness, and you start to become kind. Practice discipline, and you start to become disciplined. Practice forgiveness, and you start to become forgiving. Practice charity, and you start to become charitable. Practice gentleness, and you start to become gentle.