#growth

Seeds of faith are always within us; sometimes it takes a crisis to nourish and encourage their growth. ↗

— Susan Taylor

#crisis #encourage #faith #growth #nourish

People whose minds are not strengthened for endurance are by no means always unintelligent. They simply have never stopped to think that the use of the mind for the purpose of growth is a necessary part of a God-pleasing lifestyle. ↗

— Gordon MacDonald

#lifestyle

Books... are like lobster shells, we surround ourselves with 'em, then we grow out of 'em and leave 'em behind, as evidence of our earlier stages of development. ↗

— Dorothy L. Sayers

#character-development #growth #reading #character

Love is all that awaits you. ↗

— Howard Falco

#spiritual-growth #spirituality #teacher #life

...but thinking about it didn't do a thing. Thinking about it was a long dive into a bucket of shit that didn't have a bottom. ↗

— Cheryl Strayed

#inspirational #personal-growth #beauty

It is not that we love to be alone, but that we love to soar, and when we do soar, the company grows thinner and thinner until there is none at all. …We are not the less to aim at the summits though the multitude does not ascend them. ↗

— Henry David Thoreau

#growth #love

If I can't stay where I am, and I can't, then I will put all that I can into the going. ↗

— Jeanette Winterson

#growth #resolution #bravery

It is the darkness that makes the light visible, and not the other way around. ↗

— Nancy Venable Raine

#spiritual-growth #spiritual-growth

Lighten up on yourself. No one is perfect. Gently accept your humanness. ↗

— Deborah Day

#self-improvement #self-love #love

An awake heart is like a sky that pours light. ↗

— Hafiz

#personal-growth #spirituality #transcendence #transformation #personal-growth