#develop

A great friend can act like a trash can with a hole in the bottom. To listen to someone else's personal garbage with the same empathy you would spend listening to their joy, and then release that garbage just as quickly as you hear it, without absorbing it, makes you a wonderful friend to that person--and an even better one to yourself." Tenzin Kharma Trinley (Doug "Ten" Rose) www.fearlesspuppy.org ↗

— Doug Rose

#immune-system #personal-development #personal-growth #self-help #friendship

Once upon a time, began the story of you. Many perilous, wonderful, harrowing, brilliant, delightful, profound things happened. And yet—the most exciting twists and best turns are yet to come. And it absolutely does not matter how old or young you are. Like a bright carpet of wonders, enjoy the unrolling of your story. ↗

— Vera Nazarian

#events #future #life #lifetime #past

We do not have to be ashamed of what we are. As sentient beings we have wonderful backgrounds. These backgrounds may not be particularly enlightened or peaceful or intelligent. Nevertheless, we have soil good enough to cultivate; we can plant anything in it. ↗

— Chögyam Trungpa

#background #confidence #cultivation #development #enlightenment

The greatest shortcoming of the human race is our inability to understand the exponential function. ↗

— Albert A. Bartlett

#humanity #life #science #sustainability #sustainable-development

You cannot predict the outcome of human development. All you can do is like a farmer create the conditions under which it will begin to flourish. ↗

— Ken Robinson

#human-development #life #life

It wasn't science and technology that cause a slow progress, but collective knowledge of the society and market demands. ↗

— Toba Beta

#demand #development #knowledge #life #market

Status quo or grow: You are in control of your future. ↗

— Mary Mihalic

#development #drive #growth #motivation #strive

There would be a time when the world created people stronger than them. When all of this got worked out. But until then there would be women and men like Hanne and Alan, who were imperfect and had no path toward perfection. ↗

— Dave Eggers

#men

It is in the nature of helping and counselling to be a process moving towards something rather than arriving at a state of completion. ↗

— Pete Sanders

#completion #counselling #development #helping #process

Growth of consciousness does not depend on the might of the intellect but on the conviction of the heart. ↗

— Wayne Gerard Trotman

#consciousness #conviction #determination #development #heart