Quotes about Growth

Instead we are tapped into an unquenchable, undepletable, inexhaustible source of wisdom, consciousness, companionship. Yeah, we lose friends. But we find friends too, in places we never thought to look. And they're better friends, truer friends. And we're better and truer to them.

The professional is prepared at a deeper level. He is prepared, each day, to confront his own self-sabotage.

We're facing dragons too. Fire-breathing griffins of the soul, whom we must outfight and outwit to reach the treasure of our self-in-potential and to release the maiden who is God's plan and destiny for ourselves and the answer to why we were put on this planet.

In other words, any act that rejects immediate gratification in favor of long-term growth, health, or integrity.

The more important a call or action is to our soul's evolution, the more Resistance we will feel toward pursuing it.

We want a rite of passage. We want to grow up.

In an odd way," he says, "your making a hash of this has brought you into the club. We've all committed our share of balls-ups. What counts is setting things right and pressing on.

On realising that he is not a born warrior, as the rest of his troop are): A cherished self-conception must be given up, and one feels diminished by it. This is mistaken, however. A person discovers that he has been made stronger by the jettisoning of this sham and disadvantageous bag-gage. In fact, he has become more "himself," by aligning his self-concept more closely with fact.

The professional learns to recognize envy-driven criticism and to take it for what it is: the supreme compliment.

Don't think too small about what God could do in your life—be prepared for God to do a big thing.

The Holy Spirit's desire is that we become more and more dependent upon Him for every step. That's because He wants to take us to places we've never been before. To heights we can't even imagine!

A wise man will hear and increase learning, and a man of understanding will attain wise counsel. PROVERBS 1:5