#growth

When we refuse to work with our disappointment, we break the Precepts: rather than experience the disappointment, we resort to anger, greed, gossip, criticism. Yet it's the moment of being that disappointment which is fruitful; and, if we are not willing to do that, at least we should notice that we are not willing. The moment of disappointment in life is an incomparable gift that we receive many times a day if we're alert. This gift is always present in anyone's life, that moment when 'It's not the way I want it! ↗

— Charlotte Joko Beck

#disappointment #emotions #growth #life #suffering

Anger makes you smaller, while forgiveness forces you to grow beyond who you were. ↗

— Jonathan Anthony Burkett

#anger #aspiration #control #forgiveness #grow

No one ever said your life would be easy. The nature of being human makes life for all of us a challenge. The most important thing to consider here is this. Your life is only as challenging as you think it is. Think of challenge as a teacher and yourself the student. It's up to you to figure out what the lesson is to be learned. To learn that lesson and build the strength and courage to face other challenges…. ↗

— James A. Murphy

#inspirational-quotes #life-lessons #quotes #self-help #courage

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