“The goal of climbing big, dangerous mountains should be to attain some sort of spiritual and personal growth, but this won’t happen if you compromise away the entire process.”
“You will be a different person after the storm, because the storm will heal you from your perfection.”
“I try to be like a forest: revitalizing and constantly growing.”
“If you re always following the crowd, you will never truly know who you are. Walk your own path.”
“What lived on-in me- was the discomfort of how completely I d outgrown the novel I d once been so happy to live in”
“You can curse the moon Curse the day your’re born But the pilot of your plane is you We’re all in this world, by a greater plan Look up, lift your wings, Because you can The Light Said (The First Song album)”
“Life endlessly offers us chances to set new directions and in the process we grow and change; when we look in the rearview mirror, we catch a glimpse of former selves who sometimes seem unrecognizable. [Trevor Benson]”
“Oh thrice fools are we who like new-born princes weeping in the cradle know not that there is a kingdom before them then let our Lord s sweet hand square us and hammer us and strike off the knots of pride self-love and world-worship and infidelity that He may make us stones and pillars in His Father s house.”
“Do your thoughts continue and repeat a cycle Seed, growth, bloom, and seed again”
“there is no growth except in the fulfillment of obligations”
“It was the hardest time of my life, but the best part of my journey.”
“Let the darkness find you if it must. Throw off the quick and tempting escapes, and seek help only from those who would teach you to grow, feed your soul, embrace your heart, but would not steal away your journey.”
“For within your flesh, deep within the center of your being, is the undaunted, waiting, longing, all-knowing. Is the ready, able, perfect. Within you, waiting its turn to emerge, piece by piece, with the dawn of every former test of trial and blackness, is the next unfolding, the great unfurling of wings, the re-forged backbone of a true Child of Light.”
“Not all positive growth feels positive at first, keep going anyway.”
“Should you feel guilty for living a better life than the one they ve allowed you to?”
“How you feed it is how it will turn. Be it plants. Be it people.”
“Everything that lives must evolve.”