#growth

The desert takes our dreams away from us, and they don't always return.... Those who don't return become a part of the clouds, a part of the animals that hide in the ravines and of the water that comes from the earth. They become part of everything … They become the Soul of the World. ↗

— Paul Coelho

#dreams

I’ve only been to jail a few times, but in several different countries, at that. No, I've only been to jail a few times. But I still claim the ability to write a "serious" novel. ↗

— Roman Payne

#growth #hard-times #hardship #jail #jailbird

It is only by making the past alive again for a person that a true growth in the present is facilitated. If the past is cut off, the future does not exist. ↗

— Alexander Lowen

#past-experiences #experience

Disappointment is born from the breeding grounds of expectations. ↗

— Kyra Faith

#inspirational #life #faith

You don't have to strive to be right, because you of faith are made right. ↗

— Deborah Brodie

#spiritual-growth #faith

A person can choose to stand against adversity, but most people will run from it before they come to terms with who they truly are, a wise person watches through adversity and follows the signs when it is their turn to stand. ↗

— Faith Brashear

#fraud-and-conspiracy #just-do-it #justice #liberty #life-lessons

You can do anything you want to do, if you want to do it bad enough. ↗

— Tim Carter my dad

#encouragement #faith #self-growth #support #faith

What I think was hardest for me to realize was that he had tried each time to stop himself. He had killed animals, taking lesser lives to keep from killing a child ↗

— Alice Sebold

#family #heaven #murder #pergatory #personal-growth

and it is hard to let go, to imagine alternatives, but you are bold with unknowing, you are ready to explore. ↗

— Terra Elan McVoy

#growth #loss #love #friendship

Unhappiness does not come from the way things are, but from the difference between how things are and how we think they should be ↗

— Creflo A. Dollar

#pesonal-growth #inspirational