Quotes about Growth

I know everything I know about.

Man is asked to make of himself what he is supposed to become to fulfill his destiny.

He who risks and fails can be forgiven. He who never risks and never fails is a failure in his whole being.

Thats because, like everyone else on the planet, you believed that time would teach you to grow closer to God. But time doesnt teach; it merely brings us a sense of weariness and of growing older.

Everything tells me that I am about to make a wrong decision, but making mistakes is just part of life. What does the world want of me? Does it want me to take no risks, to go back to where I came from because I didn't have the courage to say "yes" to life?

The secret of life, though, is to fall seven times and to get up eight times.

The most difficult times for many of us are the ones we give ourselves.

To be fully alive, fully human, and completely awake is to be continually thrown out of the nest.

Only to the extent that we expose ourselves over and over to annihilation can that which is indestructible in us be found.

Do I prefer to grow up and relate to life directly, or do I choose to live and die in fear?

Often your greatest battles come before your greatest blessings.

When you are on the edge of your purpose, the ledge upon which you stand might begin to shake.