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Growth Quotes
"Youth ends when egotism does, maturity begins when one lives for others."
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"Self-respect--the secure feeling that no one, as yet, is suspicious."
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"You are no ruin sir--no lighting-struck tree: you are green and vigorous. Plants will grow about your roots, whether you ask them or not, because they take delight in your bountiful shadow; and as they grow they will lean towards you, and wind round you, because your strength offers them so safe a prop."
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"Getting hold of the difficulty deep down is what is hard. Because if it is grasped near the surface it simply remains the difficulty it was. It has to be pulled out by the roots; and that involves our beginning to think about these things in a new way. The change is as decisive as, for example, that from the alchemical to the chemical way of thinking. The new way of thinking is what is so hard to establish. Once the new way of thinking has been established, the old problems vanish; indeed they become hard to recapture. For they go with our way of expressing ourselves and, if we clothe ourselves in a new form of expression, the old problems are discarded along with the old garment."
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"Time for phrases like 'Hota Hai-Chalta Hai' is now a matter of past. India is growing rapidly and the world has high expectations from us. We cannot let this opportunity go."
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"Perfection doesn't exist here, AWESOME does."
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"Avoiding things that you deem unattainable on first sight will limit you."
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"Gossip is passing on information when you are neither part of the problem nor part of the solution."
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"You need to get out of the nest if you ever want to fly."
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"Everyday you have a new chapter to write about your journey of life. As you write that chapter do it so well such that if others read it, you would still be proud of yourself."
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"At the age of eleven or thereabouts women acquire a poise and an ability to handle difficult situations which a man, if he is lucky, manages to achieve somewhere in the later seventies."
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"The bigger the mess, the greater the progress."
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"I made my name. What does this mean? It means you continually engaged in educating yourself, undertaking and fulfilling your responsibility and learned never to give up regardless of your circumstances."
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"We are now forced to actively pursue our struggles. If we do not go out of our way to stretch our comfort zones and grow, no one nor nature will do it for us."
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"But plants grow again," She murmured, focusing on the verdant beauty around her. "They put down new roots, create room for themselves in foreign soil."
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"If you aren't in over your head, how do you know how tall you are?"
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"Don't allow your pride to stop you from positioning yourself in a circle where you are the least successful one. There is no denial that you could learn some valuable things from people who are more successful than you,that could take you to a much higher level in life."
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"When you're a kid you have these notions about how things are going to be.... You get a little older and you pull back on some of that. I think you wind up just tryin to minimize the pain."
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"Do not get back to the womb u came from bcos u need to grow up."
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"He was still a kid inside. His body had grown, stretched, towered, tanned its skin, hardened its muscle, darkened its tawny shock of long hair, tightened its lines around jaw and eyes, thickened fingers and knuckles, but the brain didn't feel as if it had grown in sympathy with the rest. It was still green, full of tall, lush oaks and elms in summer; a creek ran through it, and the kids climbed around on its convolutions shouting, "This way, gang - we'll take a short-cut and head them off at Dead Man's Gulch!"
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"Improvement makes straight roads but the crooked roads without improvement are roads of genius."
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"It's hard to have done all one's growing up since 33 - but that's a damn sight better than not growing up at all."
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"To become the best possible you, you must not only work on improving yourself but on improving others as well. You learn to help yourself when you learn how others need help. We are all just human and are more similar to each other than we might admit. Where others struggle you may struggle too and by seeing their problems from a different perspective you can help find the solutions that you both need."
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"When you violate the law of growth, your influence winds down, your progress gets arrested, and many more negative consequences..."
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"The demon that you can swallow gives you its power, and the greater life's pain, the greater life's reply."
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"When we suffer we inspire ourselves to change. Imagine we had no pain to overcome, we would not take action to make our life any more meaningful. Turn your suffering into motivation to change."
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"Human beings are the only creatures who are allowed to fail. If an ant fails, it's dead. But we're allowed to learn from our mistakes and from our failures. And that's how I learn, by falling flat on my face and picking myself up and starting all over again."
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"When personal growth is missing, there is no peace."
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"The essence of life is to become all that you can be and manifest the greatness that lies within."
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"I'm never proud of my old work. I always feel as though my skills have since improved."
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"Every relationship that we have with people today is either lifting us up or dragging us down."
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"The higher you rise, the smaller your enemies."
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"God gave us the access, but we need to exercise courage to have it. No one lacks the access, but it's only few that have the courage to grab it!"
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"What can be achieved with suffering can be achieved without it."
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