#growth

Freedom of action is disguised as a freedom of discipline. ↗

— Warren Cassell Jr.

#personal-growth #wisdom #freedom

We desire that God would give us the death-stroke; but we long to die without pain; we would die to our own will by the power of the will itself; we want to lose all and still hold all. Ah! what agony, what distress, when God has brought us to the end of our strength! We faint like a patient under a painful surgical operation. But the comparison is nought, for the object of the surgeon is to give us life -- that of God to make us die. ↗

— François Fénelon

#death

For the future, I shall rely only upon those elements of my character which I have tested. Who would ever have said that I should find pleasure in shedding tears? That I should love the man who proves to me that I am nothing more than a fool? ↗

— Stendhal

#personality #wisdom #love

Acceptance makes an incredible fertile soil for the seeds of change. ↗

— Steve Maraboli

#change #growth #inspirational #life #motivational

Civilizations grow by agreements and accomodations and accretions, not by repudiations. The rebels and the revolutionaries are only eddies, they keep the stream from getting stagnant but they get swept down and absorbed, they're a side issue. Quiet desperation is another name for the human condition. If revolutionaries would learn that they can't remodel society by day after tomorrow -- haven't the wisdom to and shouldn't be permitted to -- I'd have more respect for them ... Civilizations grow and change and decline -- they aren't remade. ↗

— Wallace Stegner

#civilization #growth #human-condition #humanity #rebellion

Those who speak of progression but are afraid of change are self-repressed and therefore unable to reach any further than their eyes can already see. ↗

— Criss Jami

#afraid #change #cognition #experimentation #eyes

Outer relationships with a man or a woman are a mirror of the relationship between our own inner man and woman. Embracing our own inner man and woman means to understand the inner drama that happens between our male and female aspects, which manifests on the outside as relationships. ↗

— Swami Dhyan Giten

#growth #inner-man-and-woman #love #relationships #spirituality

Being present here and now is the highest compliment you can pay to a woman in your life. ↗

— Lada Ray

#life #love #relationships #love

Strength comes from struggle. When you learn to see your struggles as opportunities to become stronger, better, wiser, then your thinking shifts from "I can't do this" to "I must do this. ↗

— Toni Sorenson

#inspiration #life #opportunity #inspirational

Become the kind of person the kind of person you would like to marry would like to marry. ↗

— Douglas Wilson

#marriage #marriage