Growth Quotes
Accept that you can and will do what you must do, to take good care of yourself.
So stretch! Reach for it. Like falling down stairs, where your inner-genius takes over and saves you — your instincts are ready to serve you.
You have put yourself at risk to activate your instinctual genius.
Being broken open by the storm is your only hope.
Fear is always death. Faith is life. Have faith and your victory is assured.
Painful truth is better than a pleasant lie.
The further you are challenged and threatened, the more your warrior heart will emerge.
The truth only comes if you are willing to face some really unpleasant things about yourself.
Even the softest and sweetest heart was made by design for extreme battle.
To heal, you have to give yourself to the pain. You cannot avoid facing yourself your whole life.
Your soul has a resiliency and a capacity to endure suffering that is beyond anything you can imagine.
Fear is a prison where you are the jailer. Free yourself!
Big mistakes are an outstanding opportunity to showcase your ability to recover and have grace under pressure.
The bigger the mistake the bigger the opportunity.
Most mistakes which seem huge in the heat of the moment are quickly forgotten.
Anything you want is just beyond your fear.
One of the fastest ways to move through your pain is to get a grip on reality.
When you truly face your pain you will only see yourself. Your fear was always you.
Real transformation requires real honesty. If you want to move forward — get real with yourself!
The only end to your pain is through fully consuming it and digesting it, otherwise it will consume you.
Your pain was always a part of a plan to open your heart to love.
Your hard journey has had a great purpose!
The tides of change have great purpose in our lives.
Growth and empowerment requires reflection and facing the frightening, ugly, hard and unbearable reality.
The truth can do years of work in seconds.
Once you let the truth loose it is like setting a fire that you can't stop.
Let the fires of truth burn away your false life and your excuses, fears, blaming, doubts and illusions of insignificance.
The way surviving hard winters makes a tree grows stronger, the growth rings inside it tighter
Knowing your feelings won't change the facts, but knowing the facts can change your feelings.
Allow your pain to cleanse you and burn away what needs to die.
If there is a soul, then it is a mistake to think that it is given to us completely created. It is created right here for a lifetime. Life is nothing but a long, painful process of creation.
Because of pain you feel more and so you live more.
By your choices you reveal your commitments.
You are the observer who watches your emotions as they push, pull and stretch you.
Life is so big. Do not try to fill it. Instead, expand within. You are enough for you.
Pain is as expansive as life itself. Pain grows with us and in us as a cultivation of life's unfolding.
Our wounds are the only thing humbling enough to break our attachment to our false self.
We do not handle suffering. Suffering handles us.
By eliminating choice there is in turn an elimination of growth. You must have a choice and in experiencing both the light and the dark you are given a wonderful opportunity to choose.
Let me be content with myself to the degree that my capacity to serve others is present, yet discontent with myself to the degree that I may still like to grow in better service for others.
To her, it was like asking a butterfly what it remembered about being a caterpillar. She could fly now and nothing could touch her when she left the cocoon of her body behind at night.
The “growing” we attribute to becoming more mature, could be more accurately described as “shrinking, ” as we cut away the nonsense that emotionally weighs us down.
For there is nothing like travel to heal a broken heart.