Growth Quotes

Your footsteps will have more to say about your spiritual life than knowledge attained.

~ Ricky Maye

Anger makes you smaller, while forgiveness forces you to grow beyond who you were.

~ Jonathan Anthony Burkett

No one knows what you have been through or what your pretty little eyes have seen, but I can reassure you ~ whatever you have conquered, it shines through your mind.

~ Nikki Rowe

Forget what hurt you in the past, but never forget what it taught you. However, if it taught you to hold onto grudges, seek revenge, not forgive or show compassion, to categorize people as good or bad, to distrust and be guarded with your feelings then you didn’t learn a thing. God doesn’t bring you lessons to close your heart. He brings you lessons to open it, by developing compassion, learning to listen, seeking to understand instead of speculating, practicing empathy and developing conflict resolution through communication. If he brought you perfect people, how would you ever learn to spiritually evolve?

~ Shannon L. Alder

Today I am someone different. Today I have finally become who I really am.

~ C. Joybell C.

It is necessary to grow up in maturity, firmness and courage in order to reach the goal

~ Sunday Adelaja

When you are the central character in a seemingly boiling pit of “busy-ness” the time will come when the pace of decline cannot be countered. You build yourself the circumstances of ultimate failure by failing to grow, by failing to act on your learnings.

~ Tony Curl

To grow is not to timidly sit on some safe shore at water’s edge and clumsily grab whatever happens to float by me. Rather, it is to deliberately step into waters both calm and turbulent in order to wrestle great things to shore.

~ Craig D. Lounsbrough

There is a gift in experiencing so much tragedy of life from a young age, you gain the wisdom earlier to make better choices for later.

~ Nikki Rowe

My ability is greater than my disability.

~ Nikki Rowe

And I hope above all you give your heart to someone again no matter how many broken promises you have recieved.

~ Nikki Rowe

Your life will consist of a series of times when you must reinvent yourself. We desperately cling to the idea that things should stay the same, but life and growth are about change. Don't mistake the end of a chapter for the end of the story. Lean into the plot changes, and follow your character arc. If you are in a dark part of your tale, know that this night will not last forever, but you must be brave enough to see it through. This is not the end, oh no my friend. Take courage. Better things await you.

~ John Mark Green

if you let tragedy change you, You have already lost.

~ Nikki Rowe

God doesn't hand you an easy life because you will grow in it. He hands you a dream with hurdles, obstacles, setbacks, battles and challenges because he knows the real you is at the finishing line.

~ Shannon L. Alder

Don't let what you thought you were yesterday keep you from becoming what you're meant to be today.

~ Vironika Tugaleva

I don't think anyone could really know her, just as the peak of her struggle blooms, she again appearered to have held it all together when the whole world; would have thought, she'd fall Apart.

~ Nikki Rowe

Scars prove that you're still here. That you can move on. Maybe missing a chunk of yourself, but here, goddamn it, surviving.

~ Ash Parsons

At Times I Am A Flower...at times I am a flower ~singularly defined ...

~ Muse

Grow or Die - Don’t let your fear of uncertainty keep you from achieving your dreams, it is far riskier to stagnate.

~ Malti Bhojwani

Is it a weakness not being able to hate? Or is it preparation for what is inevitable, the ability only to love.

~ Tom Althouse

To win or lose often depends on set parameters. Expand the bounds of what is possible, and you may come out the true winner, outside the confines of its defining.

~ Tom Althouse

Time is an illusion, only the keepers of the illusion are real, and the reality they have spun, keeps us, until we set upon the path of the dream.

~ Tom Althouse

In these times where it has seemed dark indeedwhere integrity appears solely buried in legend and lore, it is an opportunity in contrast to the shadows, to create miracles...by choosing first courage, then diligence, standing, opening our mouth and speaking the truth that in rare moments, may ignite the light.

~ Tom Althouse

More and more obstacles seem to be other people's issues that form in the way of a hand to block one, to take notice of them? Sometimes noticing ahead of time, and taking the time to notice them, makes the hand part of an arm that embraces you. The obstacles become bridges for both to cross over, even if in opposite directions.

~ Tom Althouse

What you envision for yourself is far more likely to become a lifelong passion than anything someone can drop into your lap. This is a reminder that pursuing my vision for my life is not a waste of time. Detours happen. They become experience. With experience, accomplishment is only a matter of time.

~ Lashawnda Jones

God is not a God of confusion, although at times one's judgment, for a period, may become clouded in the mi(d)st of one's growth process. I stopped fooling myself into thinking that Christ is always for the cool kids and never for those upright and uptight religious people everybody hates.

~ Criss Jami

...as we mature, we begin to realize that life in the Box remains the same, with few deviations from this norm.

~ Heidi Reagan

Being passionate about something is the most beautiful characteristic you can develop.

~ Charlotte Eriksson

Rightness of limitation is essential for growth of reality.Unlimited possibility and abstract creativity can procure nothing. The limitation, and the basis arising from what is already actual, are both of them necessary and interconnected.

~ Alfred North Whitehead

There was after all no mystery in the end of love, no mystery but the mystery of love itself, which was large certainly but as real as grass, as natural and unaccountable as bloom and branch and their growth.

~ John Crowley

Practicing dialogue helps you to cultivate a realness that allows you to face reality on its own terms, not just the terms you’d like it to have in order to remain in your comfort zone.

~ Oli Anderson

When people challenge your ideas, they help you (whether they know it or not).

~ Oli Anderson

To engage in dialogue is to serve others via whatever is real inside you, to engage in debate is to ultimately serve the illusions of your ego.

~ Oli Anderson

Be real! Fake and phony people never grow.. - Sivaprakash Sidhu

~ Sivaprakash Sidhu

Dialogue is about creating awareness through self-observation; it starts from the inside out, not the outside in.

~ Oli Anderson

Last night I wept. I wept because the process by which I have become woman was painful. I wept because I was no longer a child with a child's blind faith. I wept because my eyes were opened to reality.

~ Anaïs Nin

God' is whatever is the next obvious step towards wholeness in yourself and your life, 'Ego' is whatever within you stops you taking it.

~ Oli Anderson

If we go in to each situation that life throws at us with an attitude that we canlearn from it then we will never be truly defeated.

~ Oli Anderson

I suspected once that any human life, however intricate and full it might be, consisted in reality of one moment: the moment when a man knows for all time who he is.

~ Jorge Luis Borges

No person wakes up and finds themselves on the world stage. When that happens, it is in the movies.

~ Bidemi Mark-Mordi