#growth

A diamond doesn't start out polished and shining. It once was nothing special, but with enough pressure and time, becomes spectacular. I'm that diamond. ↗

— Solange nicole

#growth #self-confidence #self-esteem #self-worth #solange

Keep growing quietly and seriously throughout your whole development; you cannot disturb it more rudely than by looking outward and expecting from outside replies to questions that only your inmost feeling in your most hushed hour can perhaps answer. ↗

— Rainer Maria Rilke

#growth

We long for things that harm us and run from the things that grow and heal us. We think good is bad and bad is good. ↗

— Tessa Afshar

#long #longing #growth

I am struck by how sharing our weakness and difficulties is more nourishing to others than sharing our qualities and successes. ↗

— Jean Vanier

#success #weakness #growth

The journey I'm taking is inside me. Just like blood travels down veins, what I'm seeing is my inner self and what seems threatening is just the echo of the fear in my heart. ↗

— Haruki Murakami

#growth #heart #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

Your reason and your passion are the rudder and the sails of your seafaring soul. If either your sails or your rudder be broken you can but toss and drift, or else be held at a stand still in mid-seas. For reason, ruling alone, is a force confining; and a passion unattended, is a flame that burns to its own destruction. Therefore let your soul exalt your reason to the height of passion, that it may sing; and let it direct your passion with reason, that your passion may live through its own daily ressurrection, and like the phoenix rise above its own ashes. ↗

— Kahlil Gibran

#passion #reason #soul #destruction

Little faults become great, and even monstrous in our eyes, in proportion as the pure light of God increases in us; just as the sun in rising, reveals the true dimensions of objects which were dimly and confusedly discovered during the night. ↗

— François Fénelon

#self-knowledge #sin #spiritual-growth #self-growth

Lineage, personality, and environment may shape you, but they do not define your full potential. ↗

— Mollie Marti

#growth #purpose #self-care #success #thriving

I now see my life, not as a slow shaping of achievment to fit my preconceived purposes, but as the gradual discovery of a purpose which I did not know. ↗

— Joanna Field

#inspirational #life-lessons #inspirational