Personal growth Quotes

"You have to know that as long as you love who you are – your morals, your values, that type of stuff – you're OK." "When I win and when I lose, I take ownership of it, because I really am in charge of what I do." "It is only when you realign your mind to one-pointedness that you will be able to reflect the divine vision within" "When you go out into the woods and you look at trees, you see all these different trees and some of them are bent, and some of them are straight, and some of them are evergreens, and some of them are whatever, and you look at the tree and you allow it. You see why it is the way it is. You sort of understand that it didn’t get enough light, and so it turned that way. And you don’t get all emotional about it, you just allow it. You appreciate the tree. The minute you get near humans, you lose all that. And you are constantly saying ‘You are too this, or I’m too this.’ That judgment mind comes in. And so I practice turning people into trees. Which means appreciating them just the way they are." "Adversity is a fact of life. It can't be controlled. What we can control is how we react to it." "Nobody deserves your tears, but whoever deserves them will not make you cry" "I try to learn from the past, but I plan for the future by focusing exclusively on the present" "All changes even the most longed for have their melancholy for what we leave behind us is a part of ourselves we must die to one life before we can enter another" "Happiness begins within" "Fear is not a real thing. It is a product of thoughts you create." "The time you spend hating on someone robs you of your own time. You are literally hating on yourself and you don’t even realize it." "Haters are all failures. It’s 100% across the board. No one who is truly brilliant at anything is a hater." "The most important thing for me is to work on language" "The act of courage calls forth infallibly that deeper part of ourselves that supports and sustains us" "Our greatest fear is not that we will fall short, but that we will be powerful beyond measure"