Quotes about Growth

A disciple...can never imitate his guide's steps. You have your own way of living your life, of dealing with problems, and of winning. Teaching is only demonstrating that it is possible. Learning is making it possible for yourself.

So you must learn to follow your destiny, whatever it may be, with joy. As flowers grow, they show off their beauty and are appreciated by all; then, after they die, they leave their seeds so that others may continue God's work.

Sometimes, certain of God's blessings arrive by shattering all the windows. (Brida)

sometimes life is very mean: a person can spend days, weeks, months and years w/out feeling anything new. Then, when a door opens - a positive avalanche pours in. One moment, you have nothing, the next, you have more than you can cope with..

You told me that all life's battles teach us something, even those we lose.

When something undesirable grows in my soul, I ask Gd to give me th courage to mercilessly pluck it out.

It's always necessary to know when a stage of one's life has ended. If you stubbornly cling to it after the need has passed,you lose the joy and meaning of the rest. And you risk being shaken to your senses by God.

When faced with a loss, it is no use trying to recover what has gone. On the other hand, a great space has been opened up in your life - there it lies, empty, waiting to be filled with something new. At the moment of one's loss, contradictory as this might seem, one is being given a large slice of freedom.

Lovers need to know how to lose themselves and then how to find themselves again.

Don't think about what you've left behind.

When we love, we always strive to become better than we are.

When you repeat a mistake, it is not a mistake anymore: it is a decision.