growth

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

My two favourite things in life are libraries and bicycles. They both move people forward without wasting anything. The perfect day: riding a bike to the library.

Growth for the sake of growth is the ideology of the cancer cell.

I imagined the lies the valedictorian was telling them right now. About the exciting future that lies ahead. I wish she'd tell them the truth: Half of you have gone as far in life as you're ever going to. Look around. It's all downhill from here. The rest of us will go a bit further, a steady job, a trip to Hawaii, or a move to Phoenix, Arizona, but out of fifteen hundred how many will do anything truly worthwhile, write a play, paint a painting that will hang in a gallery, find a cure for herpes? Two of us, maybe three? And how many will find true love? About the same. And enlightenment? Maybe one. The rest of us will make compromises, find excuses, someone or something to blame, and hold that over our hearts like a pendant on a chain.

I__e learned that everything happens for a reason,_ the yogi Krishnan told him. __very event has a why and all adversity teaches us a lesson... Never regret your past. Accept it as the teacher that it is.

For a seed to achieve its greatest expression, it must come completely undone. The shell cracks, its insides come out and everything changes. To someone who doesn't understand growth, it would look like complete destruction.

We long for things that harm us and run from the things that grow and heal us. We think good is bad and bad is good.

If you're capable of despising your own behavior, you might just love yourself.

I have no right to call myself one who knows. I was one who seeks, and I still am, but I no longer seek in the stars or in books; I'm beginning to hear the teachings of my blood pulsing within me. My story isn't pleasant, it's not sweet and harmonious like the invented stories; it tastes of folly and bewilderment, of madness and dream, like the life of all people who no longer want to lie to themselves.

Wildflower; pick up your pretty little head, It will get easier, your dreams are not dead.

We become aware of the void as we fill it.

There's always something coming. Good or bad, it's going to force you to grow.

You've earned the right to grow. You're going to have to carry the water yourself.

Black hawk down.Black eagle up.

Shout out to everyone transcendinga mindset, mentality, desire, belief,emotion, habit, behavior or vibration,that no longer serves them.

Soon, when all is well, you're going to look back on this period of your life and be so glad that you never gave up.

Without you, without your onslaughts, without your uprootings of us, we should remain all our lives inert, stagnant, puerile, ignorant both of ourselves and of God. You who batter us and then dress our wounds, you who resist us and yield to us, you who wreck and build, you who shackle and liberate, the sap of our souls, the hand of God, the flesh of Christ: it is you, matter, that I bless.

Loneliness is a poison, but aloneness is a catalyst.