“Sometimes we know in our bones what we really need to do, but we re afraid to do it. Taking a chance and stepping beyond the safety of the world we ve always known is the only way to grow, though and without risk there is no reward.”
“Well, I always know what I want. And when you know what you want--you go toward it. Sometimes you go very fast, and sometimes only an inch a year. Perhaps you feel happier when you go fast. I don t know. I ve forgotten the difference long ago, because it really doesn t matter, so long as you move.”
“You will never be entirely comfortable. This is the truth behind the champion - he is always fighting something. To do otherwise is to settle.”
“Personal growth has its price, and she was paying it without complaint.”
“By daily dying, I have come to be.”
“The day is ending. It s time for something that was beautiful to turn into something else that is beautiful. Now, Let go.”
“No wonder we cannot appreciate the really central Kafka joke: that the horrific struggle to establish a human self results in a self whose humanity is inseparable from the horrific struggle. That our endless and impossible journey toward home is in fact our home.”
“An education is not so much about making a living as making a person.”
“It is not that we love to be alone, but that we love to soar, and when we do soar, the company grows thinner and thinner until there is none at all. …We are not the less to aim at the summits though the multitude does not ascend them.”
“The job facing production managers focuses on how to help their team maintain hope while also addressing the sometimes brutal or dismal facts of their situation. If the truth of their position remains unseen, they will never grow the skills necessary to resolve it.”
“Wide differences of opinion in matters of religious, political, and social belief must exist if conscience and intellect alike are not to be stunted, if there is to be room for healthy growth.”
“When every situation which life can offer is turned to the profit of spiritual growth, no situation can really be a bad one.”
“Going back after a long time will make you mad, because the people you left behind do not like to think of you changed, will treat you as they always did, accuse you of being indifferent, when you are only different.”
“There is a moment in our healing journey when our denial crumbles; we realize our experience and it s continued effects on us won t just go away . That s our breakthrough moment. It s the sun coming out to warm the seeds of hope so they can grow our personal garden of empowerment.”
“If experience is the best teacher, there s nothing that comes close to the experience of life.”
“Every test successfully met is rewarded by some growth in intuitive knowledge, strengthening of character, or initiation into a higher consciousness.”
“Sunrise paints the sky with pinks and the sunset with peaches. Cool to warm. So is the progression from childhood to old age.”