#growth

Sometimes a flame must level a forest to ash before new growth can begin. I believe Wonderland needed a scouring. ↗

— A.G. Howard

#splintered #growth

Every test successfully met is rewarded by some growth in intuitive knowledge, strengthening of character, or initiation into a higher consciousness. ↗

— Paul Brunton

#crisis #growth #intuition #intuition

An economic system which can only expand or expire must be false to all that is human. ↗

— Edward Abbey

#growth #economics

The great are strongest when they stand alone, A God-given might of being is their force. ↗

— Sri Aurobindo

#spiritual-growth #spirituality #spiritual-growth

A winner knows how much he still has to learn, even when he is considered an expert by others; a loser wants to be considered an expert by others before he has learned enough to know how little he knows. ↗

— Sydney J. Harris

#personal-growth #personal-growth

You’re like that single wild flower that grows from the crack in the pavement: miraculous growth with no water source or fertile soil. A person walking by would step around that flower to avoid crushing it. It’s not like the field of wild flowers you tromp through carelessly, crushing them under your feet, knowing that the next day will bring a hundred more. ↗

— J.B. Salsbury

#personal-growth

What I'm primarily saying,' he says, 'is that this is a time for knowledge assimilation, not backstabbing. We learned a lesson, you and I. We personally grew. Gratitude for this growth is an appropriate response. Gratitude, and being careful never to make the same mistake twice. ↗

— George Saunders

#narcissism #personal-growth #personal-growth

When you re-read a classic you do not see in the book more than you did before. You see more in you than there was before. ↗

— Clifton Fadiman

#personal-growth

I am who I am firstly because of genetics, and, running a very close second, because of choices: ones my parents made, such as choosing to emigrate to America; ones their parents made, like my Papa Butler opting to ignore medical advice and instead warming my mum in the oven to keep her alive; and very conscious ones that I've made for myself. ↗

— John Barrowman

#personal-growth

Find out what a person fears most and that is where he will develop next. ↗

— C.G. Jung

#growth #personal-growth