Don't let the fear of striking out hold you back.
Is your company so small you have to do everything for yourself? Wait until you're so big that you can't. That's worse.
Nature shows that with the growth of intelligence comes increased capacity for pain, and it is only with the highest degree of intelligence that suffering reaches its supreme point.
As I live in awareness of, growth in, and gratitude for mercy, my life will bring glory to Him
Growth itself contains the germ of happiness.
There are as many foolhardy ways to grow as there are to downsize.
Normal consciousness is a state of stupor, in which the sensibility to the wholly real and responsiveness to the stimuli of the spirit are reduced. The mystics, knowing that man is involved in a hidden history of the cosmos, endeavor to awake from the drowsiness and apathy and to regain the state of wakefulness for their enchanted souls.
If we look to the history of other nations, ancient or modern, we find no example of a growth so rapid, so gigantic, of a people so prosperous and happy.
By depending on the great, The small may rise high. See: the little plant ascending the tall tree Has climbed to the top.
The experience of surprise is a sign of one's readiness to grow.
In his attempt to develop the beauty he sees, the artist develops himself.
The growth that an artist seeks is a fine combination of mastering craft, garnering an audience, maintaining one's mental health, and working mightily from a ever-expanding base of experience.
Art is not an amusement, nor a distraction, nor is it, as many men maintain, an escape from life. On the contrary, it is a high training of the soul, essential to the soul's growth, to its unfoldment.
The work keeps getting deeper, more honest. I continue to work on a piece until I feel it breathe on its own.
Whatever helps to shape the human being - to make the individual what he is, or hinder him from being what he is not - is part of his education.
Man's duty is to improve himself; to cultivate his mind; and, when he finds himself going astray, to bring the moral law to bear upon himself.
What is the most rigorous law of our being? Growth. No smallest atom of our moral, mental, or physical structure can stand still a year. It grows - it must grow; nothing can prevent it.
Murder is a plant of slow growth.
Every garden presents innumerable fascinating problems.
My center does not come from my mind - it feels in me like a plot of warm moist well tilled earth with the sun shining hot on it... It seems I would rather feel starkly empty than let any thing be planted that cannot be tended to the fullest possibility of its growth.
It's important to balance the drudgery with inspiration. It's a nightmare if you are just existing in the present project - you don't feel a sense of your own growth.
All the great spiritual traditions have placed major emphasis upon meditation as a path to personal growth.
It is less what one is that should matter, than what one is not.
If one is constantly challenged, one grows. If one becomes complacent, one stultifies.
Cultivate Curiosity. If you really want to grow in your lifetime, learn to be as inquisitive as a child. Curious people are never bored, and for them life becomes an unending study of joy.
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