#growth

The wound is the place where the light enters you.

Out of your vulnerabilities will come your strength.

Difficulties strengthen the mind, as labor does the body.

Associate with people who are likely to improve you.

Employ your time in improving yourself by other men's writings so that you shall come easily by what others have labored hard for.

Patience is bitter, but its fruit is sweet.

No great thing is created suddenly, any more than a bunch of grapes or a fig. If you tell me that you desire a fig, I answer you that there must be time.

What is the first business of one who practices philosophy? To throw away self-conceit. For it is impossible for anyone to begin to learn that which he thinks he already knows.

Every habit and faculty is maintained and increased by the corresponding actions: the habit of walking by walking, the habit of running by running.

What would he have done under such circumstances? Obviously he would have rolled himself up in a blanket and slept.

If you want to become whole, let yourself be partial. If you want to become straight, let yourself be crooked.

Our greatest glory is not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall.

What is great in man is that he is a bridge and not an end: what can be loved in man is that he is an overture and a going under.

And life itself told me this secret: 'Behold,' it said, 'I am that which must always overcome itself.'

Whoever reaches his ideal transcends it eo ipso.

Live in conflict with your equals and with yourselves! Be robbers and conquerors as long as you cannot be rulers and possessors, you seekers of knowledge!

A snake that cannot shed its skin must die. So firms the minds which are prevented from changing their opinions; they cease to be mind.

The tree that would grow to heaven must send its roots to hell.

Progress lies not in enhancing what is, but in advancing toward what will be.

There is no birth of consciousness without pain.

No tree, it is said, can grow to heaven unless its roots reach down to hell.

Find out what you fear most; that is where you will find your next growth.

The greatest and most important problems of life are all fundamentally insoluble. They can never be solved, but only outgrown.

Fear is an indicator that you are approaching something genuinely important.

Do not compare yourself to others. Compare yourself to the person you were yesterday.

The most intense conflicts, if overcome, leave behind a sense of security and calm that is not easily disturbed.

It is the greatest good for an individual every day to converse about virtue, and to test oneself and others.

Better to stumble while running toward the truth than to sit contentedly in the lap of error.

When we are no longer able to change a situation, we are challenged to change ourselves.

No citizen has a right to be an amateur in the matter of physical and mental training; what a disgrace it is for a man to grow old without seeing the strength and beauty of which his body and mind are capable.