-Frederick W Farber
(more…)Growth
1083 – “There is grandeur in this view of life, with its several powers, having been originally breathed into a few forms or into one; and that, whilst this planet has gone cycling on according to the fixed law of gravity, from so simple a beginning endless forms most beautiful and most wonderful have been, and are being, evolved.”
-Charles Darwin
(more…)1051 – “And the day came when the risk to remain tight in a bud was more painful than the risk it took to blossom.”
– Elizabeth Appell, under the nickname Lassie Benton [Widely Misattributed to Anaïs Nin , See Source Notes for details]
(more…)955 – “It matters not what someone is born, but what they grow to be.”
-Albus Dumbledore in J K Rowling’s Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire
(more…)947 – Astronaut Chris Hadfield on Life
“Decide in your heart of hearts what really excites and challenges you, and start moving your life in that direction. Every decision you make, from what you eat to what you do with your time tonight, turns you into what you are tomorrow, and the day after that. Look at who you want to be, and start sculpting yourself into that person. You may not get exactly where you thought you’d be, but you will be doing things that suit you in a profession you believe in. Don’t let life randomly kick you into the adult you don’t want to become.”
-Chris Hadfield
(more…)916 – “The two most important days in your life are the day you are born and the day you find out why.”
-anonymous
(more…)896 – Jim Morrison on Freedom
“The most important kind of freedom is to be what you really are. You trade in your reality for a role. You trade in your sense for an act. You give up your ability to feel, and in exchange, put on a mask. There can’t be any large-scale revolution until there’s a personal revolution, on an individual level. It’s got to happen inside first.”
-Jim Morrison
(more…)844 – “Life is not a having and a getting. But a being and a becoming.”
–Matthew Arnold
806 – “… we meet ourselves time and again in a thousand disguises on the path of life.”
–Carl Jung [This quote is out of context, see source for full context] (more…)
716 – “Take chances, make mistakes. That’s how you grow. Pain nourishes your courage. You have to fail in order to practice being brave.”
– Mary Tyler Moore [Attributed]
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