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Growth Quotes
"And oh, how she pitched herself into things. She would draw pictures all day long for weeks on end, then throw out the pencils and never draw another thing. Then it was embroidery with her, she had to learn it, and she'd make the most beautiful thing, fussing at herself for the least little mistake, then throw down the needles and be done with that forevermore. I never saw a child so changeable. It was as though she was looking for something to which she could give herself, and she never found it. Least ways not while she was a little girl."
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"Living is a creative and active process of diligent learning that entails industrious human action, attentive awareness, and thoughtful reflection. Learning is one facet of human beings innate capacity that can provide a sense of worthiness to human life."
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"We have an obligation to ourselves to foster the environment that allows for our self-actualization. Rather than my gifts serving me, I must serve them. I want to be a steward of the best aspects of my character and assist them in their fulfillment through proper discipline and habits."
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"And in Kandahar he was taught about survival, about fighting and killing and hunting, and he learned much else without being taught, such as looking out for himself and watching his tongue and not saying the wrong thing, the thing that might get him killed. About the dignity of the lost, about losing, and how it cleansed the soul to accept defeat, and about letting go, avoiding the trap of holding on too tightly to what you wanted, and about abandonment in general, and in particular fatherlesness, the lessness of fathers, the lessness of the fatherless, and the best defenses of those who are less against those who are more: inwardness, forethought, cunning, humility and good peripheral vision. The many lessons of lessness. The lessening from which growing could begin."
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"Don't envy the people that are more successful than you. Rather, use their success stories to strengthen your faith in the manifestation of your positive desires."
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"When you complete yourself is when you can complete someone else."
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"To confess greatness and financial prosperity will be a joke if you still waste time and spend time on non-productive events."
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"Growth can only come when you are insecure, when you don't know it all."
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"I love travel, it promotes open-mindedness, and I believe that the interactions you have as you go places and meet people all sharpen the mind."
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"If you're making mistakes it means you're out there doing something."
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"Do you want to flourish in the garden of life? Life's gardeners pluck the weeds and care only for the productive plants."
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"We do all these things when we are young. The poise, the savoir faire, it comes later."
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"I know more than i know and must learn it from myself."
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"What the times demand, and in an unprecedented fashion, is that one be--not seem--outrageous, independent, anarchical. That one be thoroughly disciplined--as a means of being spontaneous. That one resist at whatever cost the fearful pressures placed on one to lie about one's own experience. For in the same way that the writer scarcely ever had a more uneasy time, he has never been needed more."
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"When a woman conceives her true self, a miracle occurs and life around her begins again."
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"One should become free of mistakes so that there will be no superior over him."
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"You have to have the power to employ pain, to repent, to be illuminated, you must have the opportunity and even the time."
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"Some pain shouldn't be wished away so easily. It had to be dealt with, even embraced. Without the agony of the last few months, Piper never would have found her best friends, Hazel and Annabeth. She never would've discovered her own courage. She certainly wouldn't have had the guts to sing show tunes to the snake people under Athens."
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"Every once in a while you need to challenge yourself and learn new things."
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"So the first step out of childhood is made all at once, without looking before or behind, without caution, and nothing held in reserve."
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"I'm accustomed to toxicity and can't control myself when I'm near it."
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"Free yourself from your mistakes; we have all made them. They only come as opportunities to learn and grow, so you could make wiser decisions and take better actions in the future."
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"If you think that growth means perfection, let me assure you, it does not! You do not need to be perfect; instead, strive to be honest, admit to failures, learn to ask for and to give forgiveness, love and allow yourself to be loved. Accept and even celebrate differences in others; their "No Excuses mindsets may look and function a bit differently than yours, but that is okay!"
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"Your challenge in life does not define you but only refines you."
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"The number one reason why people stay stuck is because they cannot accept that they are stuck. Accept that you are stuck, that something needs to change, that you have plateaued, and that you have stopped growing. Realize and understand who and where you are in life."
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"To gain wisdom you must be willing to invest time, energy, and money in your personal development."
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"When we learn to respond to disappointments with acceptance, we give ourselves the space to realize that all our experiences-good and bad alike-are opportunities to learn and grow."
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"I am not writing this book for people below the age of 18, but I see no harm in telling young people to prepare for failure rather than success, since failure is the main thing that is going to happen to them."
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"True love is a different story. When it happens, individuals usually feel in touch with each other's core identity. Embarking on such a relationship is frightening precisely because we feel there is no place to hide. We are known. All the ecstasy that we feel emerges as this love nurtures us and challenges us to grow and transform."
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"What I mean is that those thoughts, they're human. And just because you turn out differently than everyone's imagined you would doesn't mean that you've failed in some way. A kid who gets teased in one school might move to a different one, and be the most popular girl there, just because no one has any other expectations of her. Or a person who goes to med school because his entire family is full of doctors might find out that what he really wants to be is an artist instead."
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"Never give up in life. Learn to be humble, resilient, honest, wise and submissive and you'll be able to make a change better than anyone else."
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"Don't expect people to change until you change your perceptions about people."
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"Don't be like an insecure person who only likes to be in a circle where he is the most successful one. Perhaps so that everyone in that circle would respect him. You should always position yourself in a circle that challenges you very often to push harder and do better."
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"Growing up is difficult. Strangely, even when we have stopped growing physically, we seem to have to keep on growing emotionally, which involves both expansion and shrinkage, as some parts of us develop and others must be allowed to disappear...Rigidity never works; we end up being the wrong size for our world."
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"Create an environment that is conducive to your emotional and personal growth. Surround yourself with caring and positive people who support you, and reflect who you want to be."
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"Acceptance makes an incredible fertile soil for the seeds of change."
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"To realize your greatest strengths, you must first overcome your greatest weaknesses."
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"The question most people do not ask themselves is what they could do with their time to make it productive."
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"Great answers are found in tough questions. Never give up because of how hard the seed it, it's a proof that it carries sweeter fruits!"
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"When all things go bad, do not think so badly about all things, instead think about the things that made all things bad and change something!"
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"Most great accomplishments do not look promising in the beginning. If you give up on a big dream too early, you have probably stepped on gold and mistook it for a rock."
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