"Growth only really comes at the point of resisÂtance, but that is the moment that we tend to stop. Because it hurtsâ€¦pushing our limÂits is a musÂcle that can be culÂtiÂvated like any otherâ€“incrementally"

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Source : "Learning about Learning". Interview with Scott Barry Kaufman, sharpbrains.com. January 21, 2009.

Joshua Waitzkin

#Hurt Quotes #Growth Quotes #Pushing Quotes

“Look what we are trying. You call it dharma, but it is not. What we are trying is to come together; come together to an understanding. The difference is, the discipline is, the commitment is that we are going to come together with the following guiding lines: 'May the long time sun shine upon you, all love surround you, and the pure light within you guide your way on.' When we came together we decided we would guide our way on. My way and your way we already know, so we do not need to learn that. Each one of you knows 'my' way and 'your' way. All we have to learn is 'our' way."”
“There is already too much truth in the world - an overproduction which apparently cannot be consumed!”
“The successful truck gardener can never go out to dinner in the summer or spend a week end away, because his conscience tells him he has to be at home eating up his corn or packaging his beans for the freezer.”
“I lived in lower-income neighborhoods in the inner city. Across the street were dark parts of the world. I've experienced the gamut, from third world to inner city to my parents working their way out of being secretaries and janitors to professors and real-estate people. They've shown me a path of perseverance and hard work in a peaceable way.”

Source : Source: www.elle.com
“The best we can hope for in this life is a knothole peek at the shining realities ahead. Yet a glimpse is enough. It's enough to convince our hearts that whatever sufferings and sorrow currently assail us aren't worthy of comparison to that which waits over the horizon.”
“When confronted with a situation that appears fragmented or impossible, step back, close your eyes, and envision perfection where you saw brokenness. Go to the inner place where there is no problem, and abide in the consciousness of well-being.”
“I don't want Daddy's passion to ever end. I want to help endangered wildlife just like he did.”

Source : Eulogy for Steve Irwin, delivered 19 September 2006
“Those who hurt others will also hurt themselves.”

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