#growth

“I have to appreciate what I did, and leave it behind, and appreciate what I'm doing at this current moment.” -Rickey Gates...

i hope you gained something out of breaking my soul into two....

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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