#growth

Let’s not shirk digging. You can’t think decently if you don’t want to hurt yourself. I know all about it because I am

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There are seconds, they come only five or six at a time, and you suddenly feel the presence of eternal harmony, fully

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Philosophy is still moving too much in a straight line; it’s not yet cyclical enough.

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Seeing the small is called brightness; maintaining gentleness is called strength. Use this brightness to return to

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Even men of genius cannot keep up the creative activity to the last. As soon as they have acquired their technique, they

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If you really want to escape the things that harass you, what you’re needing is not to be in a different place but to be

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A true sign of growth is looking back on your past self and being a little bit embarrassed.

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All our progress is an unfolding, like the vegetable bud. You have first an instinct, then an opinion, then a knowledge, as

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The difficulties which I meet with in order to realize my existence are precisely what awaken and mobilize my activities,

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Too much consistency is as bad for the mind as it is for the body. Consistency is contrary to nature, contrary to life. The

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Good judgement is the result of experience and experience the result of bad judgement.

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For man holds his ground only by surpassing himself, in the same sense in which it is said that one ceases to love if one

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Growth always happens smaller and slower than we think it will; but those baby steps add up, and then one day you look back

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Failure is instructive. The person who really thinks learns quite as much from his failures as from his successes.

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I believe in knowing who you are but without limiting yourself to your own expectation of who you are.

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It’s normal to feel like you’re breaking when you’re growing. Surrender to the process and keep moving.

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To me it seems that it is madder never to abandon oneself, than often to be infatuated; better to be wounded, a captive, and

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There is no despair so absolute as that which comes with the first moments of our first great sorrow, when we have not yet

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Upon this first rule of reason, that in order to learn you must desire to learn, and in so desiring not be satisfied with

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The different ways we deal with pain are fathomless and boundless. Some of us are loud about it. Our grief simmers in our blood,...

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I loved you more than I loved me and that's why I missed your absence more than my return....

The truth is a snare: you cannot have it, without being caught. You cannot have the truth in such a way that you catch it,

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i can’t wait for the day you look in the mirror and decide that it’s time to love yourself again....