"Wherever the great dilemma exists is where the growth is, too."

-- Anne Lamott

"Choose your enemy very carefully, for you will grow to be more like him."

-- George Williams

"Conformity is the jailer of freedom and the enemy of growth."

-- John F. Kennedy

"If I'm writing well, I'm at least ten years ahead of where I live."

-- Sam Keen

"We use our mistakes as opportunities to grow so we don't lose the nerve to commit new ones."

-- Yehuda Berg

"Your confidence that your capacity to experience joy is internal and indestructible grows as you let go of joyful experiences and find that they are replaced by others even more wonderful."

-- Martha Beck

"Love is the selfless promotion of the growth of the other."

-- Milton Mayeroff

"It's trying to live up to the lies we tell ourselves that makes us better people."

-- Bobcat Goldthwait

"We grow by thinking and not by simply accepting the thoughts of others, even though those thoughts may be noble."

-- Manly P. Hall

"The ultimate plateau of civilization is that we would all accept each other equally."

-- Julie Harris

"The universe is full of magical things patiently waiting for our wits to grow sharper."

-- Eden Phillpotts

"And then it hit me -- being unhappy was something I'd been doing, and when I stopped doing it, I reverted to my natural state, which is happy."

-- Orson Bean

"The most important thing is to be able at any moment to sacrifice what you are for what you could become."

-- Charles Dubois

"Growth for the sake of growth is the ideology of the cancer cell."

-- Edward Abbey

"It is a beautiful thing to become dissatisfied with your life because it means you have outgrown it."

-- David Deida

"Change and growth take place when a person has risked himself and dares to become involved with experimenting with his own life."

-- Herbert Otto

"There is a profound satisfaction in giving up something meaningless, for no other reason than that we did it to the max and now we're ready to move on."

-- Marianne Williamson

"First, say to yourself what you would like to be; then do what you have to do."

-- Epictetus

"Love slays what has been that we may be what we were not."

-- St. Augustine

"Fortunately a great deal of growth comes from non-traumatic situations."

-- Rick Foster