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Growth Quotes
"When a child first catches adults out -- when it first walks into his grave little head that adults do not always have divine intelligence, that their judgments are not always wise, their thinking true, their sentences just -- his world falls into panic desolation. The gods are fallen and all safety gone. And there is one sure thing about the fall of gods: they do not fall a little; they crash and shatter or sink deeply into green muck. It is a tedious job to build them up again; they never quite shine. And the child's world is never quite whole again. It is an aching kind of growing."
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"Integrity simply means a willingness not to violate one's identity."
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"As I am a work in progress, you shall see me more or less? Don't shake me out if I digress. As of me less, from me more of my work, I guess."
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"Where there is awareness, there is change."
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"I don't think I really saw people except as appendages to my needs. It's only now, looking back, that I understand, but at the time I lived in a brilliantly lit haze, shifting and flickering according to my changing desires. Of course, that is only a description of being young."
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"Keep growing quietly and seriously throughout your whole development, you cannot disturb it more rudely than by looking outward and expecting from outside replies to questions that only your inmost feeling in your most hushed hour can perhaps answer."
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"Owning our story can be hard but not nearly as difficult as spending our lives running from it. Embracing our vulnerabilities is risky but not nearly as dangerous as giving up on love and belonging and joy-the experiences that make us the most vulnerable. Only when we are brave enough to explore the darkness will we discover the infinite power of our light."
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"It all takes time and lessons and places, but I'm learning to listen to my restless heart, telling me to "go, go, go!"
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"Growth is only possible in an environment that is consistent, intentional, and positive. This is not an event; instead, growth happens daily, not in a day."
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"The blessing of resistance lies in its power to illuminate those aspects of ourselves which have eluded our appreciation."
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"When you become self aware, you know your uniqueness, strengths, and limitations too. You become easy to work with others. You also avoid competing with others unhealthily."
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"You may not be a great success in everything, but every time you try you will learn something."
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"You shall be told what pleased me to-day in the writings ofHecato; it is these words: "What progress, you ask, have I made? I have begun to be a friend to myself." That wasindeed a great benefit; such a person can never be alone. You may be sure that such a man is a friend to all mankind."
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"Always grow with changes and not against them."
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"Devo farmi le ossa is how they say it in Italian. "I need to make my bones."
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"Now, it may surprise you to learn that in His efforts to get permanent possession of a soul, [God] relies on the troughs even more than on the peaks; some of His special favorites have gone through longer and deeper troughs than anyone else... It is during such trough periods, much more than during the peak periods, that it is growing into the sort of creature He wants it to be... He wants them to learn to walk and must therefore take away His hand; and if only the will to walk is really there He is pleased even with their stumbles."
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"Once we accept our limits, we go beyond them."
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"The great law of culture: Let each become all that he was created capable of being."
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"Fascinatingly resilient the tenacity of a child. Not yet conditioned by society to give up when instructed to do so."
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"Growth and change were viewed as reactions to conditions met."
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"It is always what I have already said: always the wish that you may find patience enough in yourself to endure, and simplicity enough to believe; that you may acquire more and more confidence in that which is difficult, and in your solitude among others. And for the rest, let life happen to you. Believe me: life is right, in any case."
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"At some point we must achieve our identity -we can't be always in adolescence seeking who we are..."
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"As a confirmed melancholic, I can testify that the best and maybe only antidote for melancholia is action. However, like most melancholics, I suffer also from sloth."
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"There will always be a part of your life that's not quite in order. This is the growth part, the area where lessons come from. Embrace this! Learn from it, and then move on."
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"The whole point in moving forward is to leave things behind. Once you look back, you stop moving forward. Understanding this makes you move on easier."
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"You don't have to keep living in a dystopia simply because you're strong and noble enough to accept it."
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"That which is currently beyond your capabilities now, does not have to be so forever."
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"Do short people reach their full potential quicker?"
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"Pain strengthens and failure teaches us the proper way to do things."
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"She didn't like being twelve. It felt like someplace between who she'd been and who she was about to be. It felt like no place at all."
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"Life growth is like muscle growth, you have to stretch beyond, feed it properly and rest. When you meditate, rest and reflect is when growth happens!!!!"
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"I hope that in this year to come, YOU make mistakes. Because if YOU are making mistakes, then YOU are making NEW things, trying NEW things, learning, living, pushing YOURself, changing YOURself, changing YOUR world. YOU're doing things YOU've never done before, n MORE importantly, YOU're doing something."
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"I believe - I daily find it proved - that we can get nothing in this world worth keeping, not so much as a principle or a conviction, except out of purifying flame, or through strengthening peril. We err; we fall; we are humbled - then we walk more carefully. We greedily eat and drink poison out of the gilded cup of vice, or from the beggar's wallet of avarice; we are sickened, degraded; everything good in us rebels against us; our souls rise bitterly indignant against our bodies; there is a period of civil war; if the soul has strength, it conquers and rules thereafter."
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"In order to grow sometimes we must cease striving to meet other people's expectations and begin establishing new goals that develop our personal potential. If we live a life to satisfy all the direct or implicit anticipations of other people, we end up living a life full of regret because we failed to develop into a complete manifestation of our being."
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"Better the demon which makes you improve than the angel who threatens."
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"You become greater than what you conquer within."
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"Stop trying to be less of who you are. Let this time in your life cut you open and drain all of the things that are holding you back."
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"Exponential Results Requires Exponential Thinking and High Performance Teamworking with Growth Oriented Mindsets."
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"A flower does not compete with the flower next to it; it just blooms."
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"I do not wish for anyone's downfall. The world needs successful people. I just think of ways to add more value to myself, and wish that my adversaries would do the same."
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