growth

There's something so quietly contained in the moments when one reaches their hand out to support your tragedy. It's hardly ever spoken about, but the feeling of belonging to somewhere, or someone for a split second, gives you enough power to carry on a few more steps. When the world is full of compassionate people like this, the world will know Unconditional Love.

Being kind, being compassionate, being respectful does not make you weak. More often, it's the harder path to take.

Transition isn't pretty, but stagnation is hideous.

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!

Experience, or what we call experience, is not the inventory of our pains, but rather the learned sympathy towards the pain of others.

The 7 Steps to Transformation:1. Dream it.2. Envision it.3. Think it.4. Grow it.5. Become it.6. Live it.7. OWN it.

To become more like Jesus we must understand that the only growth we can be in charge of is our own.

To Jesus, the Christian life wasn't about being perfect but about being perfected.

Life is a journey

Jesus may give you eternal life, but until then, your ass going to stay right were it is until you do something about it.

A true work of art is shaped by the hands of another, and if in shaping us that __ther_ is anything other than God, the piece will never touch the remotest periphery of its potential.

While there may be many things in life you wish to harvest not every seed you plant will grow.

Never feel sorry for me, just teach me and watch me grow.

i love watching what you become when life thinks it has you cornered.

We are all alone, born alone, die alone, and__n spite of True Romance magazines__e shall all someday look back on our lives and see that, in spite of our company, we were alone the whole way. I do not say lonely__t least, not all the time__ut essentially, and finally, alone. This is what makes your self-respect so important, and I don't see how you can respect yourself if you must look in the hearts and minds of others for your happiness.

Patience, more than the ability to bear pains or endure waiting, is to be calm no matter what happens _ constantly take action to turn it to positive growth opportunities _ and have faith to believe that it will all work out in the end while you are waiting.

You must embrace change before change erases you.

Recalling his first dreams of flight when he was a small child, Max acknowledged that his entire existence had been building up to this tipping point where he could finally choose to release his self-imposedlimitations.