#growth

Kids from small families grow about an inch taller than those from large families. This is true regardless of income and social class, because a body can't grow well while fighting off nine siblings' cold viruses. ↗

— Arianne Cohen

#height #illness #tall #family

What about thinking of happiness as a right instead than as a gift? ↗

— Rossana Condoleo

#giving-advice #happiness #happy #inspiration #inspirational

Pastors are starting to get wily. When people tell my friend, 'I'm not being fed,' he replies, 'I'm prefectly happy to spoon feed my one-year-old. But if I'm still spoon-feeding him when he's five, we've got a problem. Here's a fork. Feed yourself. ↗

— Jon Acuff

#christians #funny #inspirational #spiritual-growth #funny

Lighten up on yourself. No one is perfect. Gently accept your humanness. ↗

— Deborah Day

#self-improvement #self-love #love

An awake heart is like a sky that pours light. ↗

— Hafiz

#personal-growth #spirituality #transcendence #transformation #personal-growth

One of the first things we learn from our teachers is discernment: the ability to tell truth from fiction, to know when we have lost our center and how to find it again. Discernment is also one of the last things we learn, when we feel our paths diverge and we must separate from our mentors in order to stay true to ourselves. ↗

— Anne Hill

#spiritual-growth #spirituality #teachers #spiritual-growth

Don't try to be useful. Try to be yourself: that is enough & that makes all the difference. ↗

— Paulo Coelho

#self-belief #self-growth #self-growth

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

The spirit of self-help is the root of all genuine growth in the individual. ↗

— Samuel Smiles

#growth #individual #root #self-help #spirit

But as you say, the fundamental stumbling block is the question of the future of the economy. And it's not just the sort of economic laboratory question, of what kind of system would best generate growth, which is the way it's presented. ↗

— Joe Slovo

#block #economic #economy #fundamental #future