Growth QuotesGrowth quotes remind us that growth is a condition of life. Growth happens with or without our consent. It is simply a form of change. In what areas would you most like to grow? A fruit is not afraid of its own weight. It grows into its skin fully. It is whole, each part of its body equally alive. Gayle Brandeis Life is a conspiracy to shower you with a nonstop feast of interesting experiences, all of which are designed to help you grow your intelligence, shed your pretensions, and master the art of ingenious love. Rob Brezsny You cannot expect to achieve new goals or move beyond your present circumstances unless you change.+ Les Brown Growth itself has the germ of happiness. Pearl S. Buck Love dies only when growth stops. Pearl S. Buck All spiritual growth takes place by leaps and bounds, both in the individual and, as here, in the community. The crisis is to be regarded as a nexus of growth. Jacob Burckhardt Never idealize others. They will never live up to your expectations. Don`t over-analyze your relationships. Stop playing games. A growing relationship can only be nurtured by genuineness. Leo Buscaglia The person who risks nothing, does nothing, has nothing, and becomes nothing. He may avoid suffering and sorrow, but he simply cannot learn and feel and change and grow and love and live. Leo Buscaglia Don't go through life. Grow through life. Eric Butterworth Gratitude helps you to grow and expand; gratitude brings joy and laughter into your life and into the lives of all those around you. Eileen Caddy Growth is an erratic forward movement: two steps forward, one step back. Remember that and be very gentle with yourself. Julia Cameron Instead of looking at life as a narrowing funnel, we can see it ever widening to choose the things we want to do, to take the wisdom we've learned and create something. Liz Carpenter I think that one's art is a growth inside one. I do not think one can explain growth. It is silent and subtle. One does not keep digging up a plant to see how it grows. Emily Carr Look at the earth crowded with growth, new and old bursting from their strong roots hidden in the silent, live ground, each seed according to its own kind…each one knowing what to do, each one demanding its own rights on the earth. So artist, you too from the depths of your soul...let your roots creep forth, gaining strength. Emily Carr If you are going through a time of discouragement, there is a time or great personal growth ahead. Oswald Chambers Difficulties are meant to rouse, not discourage. The human spirit is to grow by conflict. William E. Channing With spiritual growth comes new creative potential, leading to the realization that you are pure potential, able to fill any creative impulse. Deepak Chopra Creativity is inventing, experimenting, growing, taking risks, breaking rules, making mistakes, and having fun. Mary Lou Cook All growth depends upon activity. There is no development physically or intellectually without effort, and effort means work. Calvin Coolidge The joy of life consists in the exercise of one’s energies, continual growth, constant change, the enjoyment of every new experience. To stop means simply to die. The eternal mistake of mankind is to set up an attainable ideal. Aleister Crowley Develop a passion for learning. If you do, you will never cease to grow. Anthony J. D'Angelo Out of difficulties grow miracles. Jean De La Bruyere The strongest principle of growth lies in human choice. George Eliot Don’t be afraid to expand yourself, to step out of your comfort zone. That’s where the joy and the adventure lie. Herbie Hancock Attention is like sunlight and water for a plant. What we pay attention to will grow. Thich Nhat Hanh When you plant lettuce, if it does not grow well, you don’t blame the lettuce. You look for reasons it is not doing well. It may need fertilizer, or more water, or less sun. You never blame the lettuce. Yet if we have problems with our friends or family, we blame the other person. But if we know how to take care of them, they will grow well, like the lettuce. Blaming has no positive effect at all, nor does trying to persuade using reason and argument. That is my experience. No blame, no reasoning, no argument, just understanding. If you understand, and you show that you understand, you can love, and the situation will change. Thich Nhat Hanh Ability and increased potential grow hand in hand. As we grow, as we move, as we learn, the cells of our nervous systems connect in highly complex patterns of neural pathways. Carla Hannaford It is our movements that not only express knowledge and facilitate greater cognitive function, they actually grow the brain as they increase in complexity. Carla Hannaford Self-initiated movement, exploration, interaction and physical experience for the joy and challenge of it, facilitates neurogenesis for a lifetime. Carla Hannaford Don’t wait until everything is just right. It will never be perfect. There will always be challenges, obstacles and less than perfect conditions. So what. Get started now. With each step you take, you will grow stronger and stronger, more and more skilled, more and more self-confident, and more and more successful. Mark Victor Hansen Within the seed of your desire is everything necessary for it to blossom to fulfillment. And Law of Attraction is the engine that does the work. Your work is just to give it a fertile growing place in order to expand. Abraham-Hicks A mind stretched to a new idea never goes back to its original dimensions. Oliver Wendall Holmes You cannot mandate productivity, you must provide the tools to let people become their best. Steve Jobs Warmth is the vital element for the growing plant and for the soul of the child. Carl Jung Creativity is a type of learning process where the teacher and the pupil are located in the same individual. Arthur Koestler Like a plant that starts up in showers and sunshine and does not know which has best helped it to grow, it is difficult to say whether the hard things or the pleasant things did me the most good. Lucy Larcom Rustout is the slow death that follows when we stop making the choices that keep life alive. It’s the feeling of numbness that comes from always taking the safe way, never accepting new challenges, continually surrendering to the day-to-day routine. Rustout means we are no longer growing, but at best, are simply maintaining. It implies that we have traded the sensation of life for the security of a paycheck…Rustout is the opposite of burnout. Burnout is overdoing. Rustout is underbeing. Richard Leider The turning point in the process of growing up is when you discover the core of strength within you that survives all hurt. Max Lerner Only in growth, reform, and change, paradoxically enough, is true security to be found. Anne Morrow Lindbergh Every moment of one's existence, one is growing into more or retreating into less. One is always living a little more or dying a little bit. Norman Mailer All the evidence that we have indicates that it is reasonable to assume in practically every human being…that there is an active will toward health, an impulse towards growth. Abraham Maslow If we’re growing, we’re always going to be out of our comfort zone. John C. Maxwell It's not only children who grow. Parents do too. As much as we watch to see what our children do with their lives, they are watching us to see what we do with ours. I can't tell my children to reach for the sun. All I can do is reach for it, myself. Joyce Maynard All growth is a leap in the dark, a spontaneous, unpremeditated act without benefit of experience. Henry Miller Nature herself does not distinguish between what seed it receives. It grows whatever seed is planted; this is the way life works. Be mindful of the seeds you plant today, as they will become the crop you harvest. Mary Morrissey Life is a garden. It is an opportunity. You can grow weeds, you can grow roses; it all depends on you. Osho The quickest way to change your attitude toward pain is to accept the fact that everything that happens to us has been designed for our spiritual growth. M. Scott Peck Only as high as I reach can I grow, only as far as I seek can I go, only as deep as I look can I see, only as much as I dream can I be. Karen Ravn There are no great limits to growth because there are no limits of human intelligence, imagination, and wonder. Ronald Reagan Goals are a means to an end, not the ultimate purpose of our lives. They are simply a tool to concentrate our focus and move us in a direction. They only reason we really pursue goals is to cause ourselves to expand and grow. Achieving goals by themselves will never make us happy in the long term; it’s who you become, as you overcome the obstacles necessary to achieve your goals, that can give you the deepest and most long-lasting sense of fulfillment. Anthony Robbins In my early professional years I was asking the question: How can I treat, or cure, or change this person? Now I would phrase the question in this way: How can I provide a relationship which this person may use for his own personal growth. Carl Rogers Your family and your love must be cultivated like a garden. Time, effort, and imagination must be summoned constantly to keep any relationship flourishing and growing. Jim Rohn I’ve learned that the easiest way for me to grow as a person is to surround myself with people smarter than I am. Andy Rooney Only as high as I reach can I grow, only as far as I seek can I go. Only as deep as I look can I see, only as much as I dream can I be. Karen Ryan If you were all alone in the universe with no one to talk to, no one with which to share the beauty of the stars, to laugh with, to touch, what would be your purpose in life? It is other life, it is love, which gives your life meaning. This is harmony. We must discover the joy of each other, the joy of challenge, the joy of growth. Mitsugi Saotome We need four hugs a day for survival. We need eight hugs a day for maintenance. We need twelve hugs a day for growth. Virginia Satir To grow as a writer, you grow as a person. There's no way to work on one without the other. Heather Sellers If every day is an awakening, you will never grow old. You will just keep growing. Gail Sheehy If we don't change, we don't grow. If we don't grow, we aren't really living. Gail Sheely You can learn new things at any time in your life if you're willing to be a beginner. If you actually learn to like being a beginner, the whole world opens up to you. Barbara Sher Personal relationships are the fertile soil from which all advancement…all success…all achievement in real life grows. Ben Stein In my garden there is a large place for sentiment. My garden of flowers is also my garden of thoughts and dreams. The thoughts grow as freely as the flowers, and the dreams are as beautiful. Abram L. Urban No person is your friend who demands silence, or denies your right to grow. Alice Walker Money is like manure; it’s not worth a thing unless it’s spread around encouraging young things to grow. Thornton Wilder Growth is a detox process, as our weakest, darkest places are sucked up to the surface in order to be released…often, it is not a change in partners but rather a change in perception that delivers us to the love we seek. Marianne Williamson It is confidence in our bodies, minds and spirits that allows us to keep looking for new adventures, new directions to grow in, and new lessons to learn – which is what life is all about. 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