#Growth

"You will never be entirely comfortable. This is the truth behind the champion - he is always fighting something. To do otherwise is to settle."

"There is a moment in our healing journey when our denial crumbles; we realize our experience and it's continued effects on us won't "just go away". That's our breakthrough moment. It's the sun coming out to warm the seeds of hope so they can grow our personal garden of empowerment."

"Faithfulness in small things leads to faithfulness in great things, and never the other way around."

"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."

"In order to grow, I promise you'll have to let go of some habits. 10 times out of 10, they'll be the habits you're most in love with."

"Anything that you learn becomes your wealth, a wealth that cannot be taken away from you; whether you learn it in a building called school or in the school of life. To learn something new is a timeless pleasure and a valuable treasure. And not all things that you learn are taught to you, but many things that you learn you realize you have taught yourself."

"A man's growth is seen in the successive choirs of his friends."

"Love flows like flowers, and grows like water. I’m so thirsty for romance I could drink a dozen roses."

"Most often people seek in life occasions for persisting in their opinions rather than for educating themselves."

"Art has a double visage: it looks before and after. Romance is its forward-looking face. The germ of growth is in romanticism. Formalism, on the other hand, consolidates tradition; gleans what has been gained and makes it facile to the hand or the mind; economizes the energy of genius."

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

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

"You can grow like a tall tree, when you enjoy the sun, wind, rain, storms and the stars in the dark nights."

"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."

"Don't let your habits become handcuffs"

"A young outcast will often feel that there is something wrong with himself, but as he gets older, grows more confident in who he is, he will adapt, he will begin to feel that there is something wrong with everyone else."

"And like the sun, I will always rise."

"The greatest thing in this world is not so much where we stand as in what direction we are moving."

"Love dies only when growth stops."

"And the day came when the risk to remain tight in a bud was more painful than the risk it took to blossom."