#growth

The day is ending. It's time for something that was beautiful to turn into something else that is beautiful. Now, Let go. ↗

— Elizabeth Gilbert

#inspirational #beauty

Simplify and focus on the good. The beauty of the journey ahead will flourish on its own. ↗

— Erik Tomblin

#inspirational #life-lessons #patience #positive-thinking #spiritual-growth

The smallest drop of rain can project the most beautiful of visions, all we have to do is look a little deeper. -T.L. Manning ↗

— T.L. Manning

#beauty

A farm is a business, and I ran mine into the ground. The next year it grew back.
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— Jarod Kintz

#failure #farm #farmer #ground #growth

Why do you go away? So that you can come back. So that you can see the place you came from with new eyes and extra colors. And the people there see you differently, too. Coming back to where you started is not the same as never leaving. ↗

— Terry Pratchett

#change #discworld #growth #travel #change

If people refuse to look at you in a new light and they can only see you for what you were, only see you for the mistakes you've made, if they don't realize that you are not your mistakes, then they have to go. ↗

— Steve Maraboli

#growth #inspirational #letting-go #life #mistakes

Yes, I decided, a man can truly change. The events of the past year have taught me much about myself, and a few universal truths. I learned, for instance, that while wounds can be inflicted easily upon those we love, it's often much more difficult to heal them. Yet the process of healing those wounds provided the richest experience of my life, leading me to believe that while I've often overestimated what I could accomplish in a day, I had underestimated what I could do in a year. But most of all, I learned that it's possible for two people to fall in love all over again, even when there's been a lifetime of disappointment between them. ↗

— Nicholas Sparks

#love #personal-growth #romance #change

It amazes me that people think their soul mate is going to show up in their life at this predestined time and be this flawless person. A true soul mate is a mirror of yourself, the person who shows you everything that is holding you back, the person who brings you to your own attention so you can change your life. Sure, they have a common upbringing, similar interests but they have the one thing you don’t have which is the introspection to help you become great. What use is a soul mate if they can’t help free you from yourself so you can live your life mission? ↗

— Shannon L. Alder

#soulmates #spiritual-growth #change

Your hand opens and closes, opens and closes. If it were always a fist or always stretched open, you would be paralysed. Your deepest presence is in every small contracting and expanding, the two as beautifully balanced and coordinated as birds' wings. ↗

— Rumi

#change #growth #presence #the-middle-way #beauty

You have a right to experiment with your life. You will make mistakes. And they are right too. No, I think there was too rigid a pattern. You came out of an education and are supposed to know your vocation. Your vocation is fixed, and maybe ten years later you find you are not a teacher anymore or you're not a painter anymore. It may happen. It has happened. I mean Gauguin decided at a certain point he wasn't a banker anymore; he was a painter. And so he walked away from banking. I think we have a right to change course. But society is the one that keeps demanding that we fit in and not disturb things. They would like you to fit in right away so that things work now. ↗

— Anaïs Nin

#education #experiments #growth #life #mistakes