growth

The way surviving hard winters makes a tree grows stronger, the growth rings inside it tighter

You have to have faith if you want to make it out of the woods. Faith is your only hope for deliverance.

I hated the flashcards and I hated the multiplication tables, but I did enjoy the fact that my dad took time out of his schedule to help me in the areas in which I needed it.

You are the observer who watches your emotions as they push, pull and stretch you.

Any good is good enough.

Accept that you are not finished, and a new and better life is just beginning.

Good poetry does not exist merely for the sake of itself, but rather, is a byproduct of yearning and growth; great poetry canonizes that yearning for the growth of others.

If at the moment when someone cuts us off in traffic or breaks our heart or begins bombing our ancestral village, we could withdraw from judging mode, and enter this other, more accepting mode, we could paradoxically, make ourselves more powerful. By resisting the urge to reduce, in order to subsequently destroy, we keep alive - if only for a few seconds more - the possibility of transformation. -The Thought Experiment

The truth can do years of work in seconds.

Sometimes we may seem to be resisting letting go, when really, we just can't see a way to move forward _ believing things can never change for someone as unworthy as us.

Life is so big. Do not try to fill it. Instead, expand within. You are enough for you.

By your choices you reveal your commitments.

Your total intelligence knows exactly what to do, because you were made to weather the storms of life.

Change takes time. It takes time for the seeds to begin growing within, time to understand and process, time for the growth to mature, and time for the old self to die and fall away.

Fear is a prison where you are the jailer. Free yourself!

The way to send a clear message that you are ready for better people in your life is the kick the rascals to the curb.

Taking personal responsibility is not about being "responsible" _ it is about seeing your truth and evolving.

You are your own essential ally. Get right with yourself.