Growth Quotes

Marianne could never love by halves; and her whole heart became, in time, as much devoted to her husband, as it had once been to Willoughby.

~ Jane Austen

The pathway to peace is an in describable journey of facing ones darkness, to find ones light. If they told you it's easier to give up, you met a fool; if they told you; it's easier to grow, you met the wise.

~ Nikki Rowe

Everything you go through grows you.

~ Robert Tew

Until you see fear as an opportunity for growth, you won’t grow beyond your current self.

~ Robert Tew

I’m sorry I changed… life forced me to grow.

~ Robert Tew

Until you see fear as an opportunity for growth, you won't grow beyond your current self.

~ Robert Tew

It doesn't really matter who you used to be, what matters is who you've become.

~ Robert Tew

Your level of comfort will increase your level of confidence.

~ Rob Liano

I learnt my best lessons from some of the worst people & I look back now and think thank fuck I let you go, I deserved to grow.

~ Nikki Rowe

The struggle to leave the cocoon is what strengthens the butterfly’s wings so she can fly. I am about to become something beautiful.

~ Tricia Stirling

Despite our disapproval with what God allows us to endure, he still remains the same God that is not interested in our convenience, as much as our character.

~ Shannon L. Alder

I have gotten where I am today by refusing to stay where I was. Change is something I have done over and over again.

~ Danielle Bernock

Even when life knocks me around, I will not lose hope. For you see, nothing is ever personal Just a chance for me to grow.

~ Nikki Rowe

i see the sky as beautiful, Regardless of its shine Because I wake each day grateful, That I get another chance to be alive.

~ Nikki Rowe

Resistance makes a man think new thoughts he never considered before. It makes a man ask questions he never asked before. It makes a man seek answers he never sought before. It makes a man beg God for help that he never before realized he needed. These quests, quests of the heart and soul, eventually make a man deeper, wider, taller.

~ Randall Arthur

A true man will treat a woman how she treats herself, you can't expect to be a queen when your disrespecting your own crown.

~ Nikki Rowe

Some believe to be spiritual, is to be always loving and shit... Being spiritual is taking no shit, by believing that your voice deserves to be heard if the deed is not satisfying your soul.

~ Nikki Rowe

carry your wounds with pride, Believe in yourself; amongst greatest of catastrophe' You grew into the being you are And I think that in itself, is certainly enough.

~ Nikki Rowe

Gandhi is an example of a man who grew from being self-centered as he was learning to become a lawyer in England, to becoming more family- and social oriented in South-Africa, where he led a reformation of Indian rights, to becoming determined in helping his nation recover from British rule at which he succeeded in the end with the help of a great many people. At the end of his life Gandhi was increasingly focused on a larger picture, encasing the whole world in his vision of a peaceful future.

~ Gudjon Bergmann

I am weary of this notion of faithfulness to a point of view at all cost. Life around us is ever changing, and I believe that one should try to change one’s slant accordingly—at least once every ten years. The great heroic devotion to one point of view is very alien to me—it’s a lack of humility. Mayakovsky killed himself because his pride would not be reconciled with something new happening within himself—or around him.

~ Boris Pasternak

I sat and asked God a question, never before now had I felt he was truly listening; Or was it i, that disrupted his appearance... Why God, must the treasures of our world be hard done by and the enemies of life become greater in their scheme of manipulation? Oh dear one, I chose the strong ones to hand the deepest lessons, because I know they can handle it and soon enough they will too. The ones that twiddle their thumbs and become ignorant to what's their truth; will attract what they are and continue in the circle of vicious greed. They'll eventually grow, like you did too. It may just take time, and your time now is bettering your existence from the struggle you've faced.

~ Nikki Rowe

Breaking away from old psychological memes requires a Herculean effort in many cases. In essence, we are outgrowing a worldview while maintaining a relation-ship of sorts. Transcending an ideology can feel like going through a divorce and having to stay friends because of the kids.

~ Gudjon Bergmann

Masters of flight don't learn to fly because of all that helped them, they learnt to fly, despite all that tried to stop them.

~ Nikki Rowe

Growth seems to evolve from a narrow-minded, constricted worldview (selfish) to an ever-more-encompassing worldview (multiperspective caring). To put it simply, the more self-centered you are, the lower you tend to land on these scales, while the more perspectives you can entertain—the more empathy you can show and the better your ability to see things from a variety of viewpoints—the higher you land on these scales.

~ Gudjon Bergmann

I'm enjoying getting to know me, one lesson at a time.

~ Nikki Rowe

They swore by concrete. They built for eternity.

~ Günter Grass

I have awaited a storm that should deliver me, pluck me away and now it has come softly, even without my knowledge. But it is here. While I was despairing, thinking everything lost, it was already quietly growing. I had thought that division was always an end. Now I know that growth also is division. And growth means relinquishing. And growth has no end.

~ Erich Maria Remarque

Feeling uncomfortable is the first step towards growth.

~ L.k. Elliott

there is a silent beauty hidden amongst pain, if you sit in it you may never find it; if you grow through it, You'll find the treasure.

~ Nikki Rowe

Love me only for my actions, and I will grow stressed. Love me only for my body, and I will grow paranoid. Love me only for my words, and I will grow bitter.Love me only for my soul, and I will grow.

~ Vironika Tugaleva

there's something about trauma to the mind, body and soul. One day your normal and the next your different; you don't know what changed but you know nothing's the same and all of a sudden you are learning to adapt yourself to the same environment with a whole new outlook. I guess you realise your not invisible and every aching bone bleeds it's sorrow through anguish in your movements. One day it'll get easier, because I'm telling myself it will and that's the difference between becoming a pioneer through this disaster when all thought I'd be a slave to pity.

~ Nikki Rowe

dont harden your heart; because of the past, it'll block your sight, of a positive future.

~ Nikki Rowe

That we are bound to the earth does not mean that we cannot grow; on the contrary it is the sine qua non of growth. No noble, well-grown tree ever disowned its dark roots, for it grows not only upward but downward as well.

~ C.g. Jung

Today, I don't want to ask for anythingI just want to give thanks for Everything I already have.

~ Nikki Rowe

The possibility to love another scared me; terrified me actually. Being a free spirit, apart of me is most alive when roaming, than I became a mother and for the first time I felt my heart live outside my body and that's the moment his laughter became my medicine.

~ Nikki Rowe

You are never as good as you think you are, and you are never as bad as you believe yourself to be.

~ Chris Matakas

There is no higher calling than service to your fellow man, and to do so through your own personal mastery of a craft is a gift enjoyed by few. Cultivate this gift, and give it away.

~ Chris Matakas

Jiu Jitsu is a vehicle for self-discovery and growth. It reminds me of my ego, of my insecurities, and of my shortcomings.

~ Chris Matakas

Do more than just exist, create to inspire!

~ T.f. Hodge

He who didn't succeed at his own dreams, was too busy listening to another's failures.

~ Nikki Rowe