Quotes about Growth

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.

Pruning includes purging the wrong thinking, the negative attitudes, and the wrong people that surround you.

Just as leaven in bread will cause it to rise, the words and actions of others will cause their bad seed to produce weeds instead of fruit.

Weeds choke the life out of anything good that might grow.

The wilderness creates unusual pressures and challenges.