Growth Quotes
Sometimes life takes you into a dark place where you feel it's impossible to breathe. You think you've been buried, but don't give up, because if truth be told, you've actually been planted.
To be in Jesus' easy yoke is an easy way of doing hard things." (p. 202)
A true work of art is shaped by the hands of another, and if in shaping us that ‘other’ is anything other than God, the piece will never touch the remotest periphery of its potential.
To become more like Jesus we must understand that the only growth we can be in charge of is our own.
To Jesus, the Christian life wasn't about being perfect but about being perfected.
Jesus Followers are called to be reflectors of His character, servants of his grace, ambassadors of His message and magnifiers of His glory!” ~ © gfp '42
Experience, or what we call experience, is not the inventory of our pains, but rather the learned sympathy towards the pain of others.
Don't question what you don't understand unless you're asking questions seeking to understand.
Being kind, being compassionate, being respectful does not make you weak. More often, it's the harder path to take.
Storms don't come to teach us painful lessons, rather they were meant to wash us clean.
Have compassion for people as long as you are one of them too.
We must empower our weak to be strong, and teach our strong to be compassionate. This will open a door to oneness.
It was as simply as that. And as complex.
I soon realized that no journey carries one far unless, as it extends into the world around us, it goes an equal distance into the world within.
We inhabit an internal world that is subject to diversification. Every day we undergo personal transformation based upon experiences, thoughts, and feelings.
If you sincerely love yourself then you will take 100% full responsibility for your thoughts and actions.
Basic understanding of who were are is through Self Awareness. By understanding our thoughts we can dive deeper into them and get a better understanding of who we are in the process.
One positive thought will shift the entire world under your feet.
I urge you: don't cut short these thought-trains of yours. Follow them through to their end. Your thoughts and your feelings. Follow them through and you will grow with them.
Wealth gives you options, and your decisions about what to do with your options say much about your character.
When life is sweet, say thank you and celebrate. And when life is bitter, say thank you and grow.
My two favourite things in life are libraries and bicycles. They both move people forward without wasting anything. The perfect day: riding a bike to the library.
A diamond doesn't start out polished and shining. It once was nothing special, but with enough pressure and time, becomes spectacular. I'm that diamond.
We long for things that harm us and run from the things that grow and heal us. We think good is bad and bad is good.
The art of being wise is the art of knowing that solutions don’t come from individuals, but rather experiences.
We grow the aspects of our lives that we feed – with energy and engagement – and choke off those we deprive of fuel. Your life is what you agree to attend to.
The goal of climbing big, dangerous mountains should be to attain some sort of spiritual and personal growth, but this won’t happen if you compromise away the entire process.
What lived on-in me- was the discomfort of how completely I'd outgrown the novel I'd once been so happy to live in
We are all broken and wounded in this world. Some choose to grow strong at the broken places.
Growth is limited by the necessity which is present in the least amount. And naturally, the least favorable condition controls the growth rate
As the expert in knowing yourself, you get to decide what you want to explore in your internal landscape.
The moment you can visualize being free from the things that hold you back, you have indeed begun to set yourself free
