“Growth of the soul is our goal, and there are many ways to encourage that growth, such as through love, nature, healing our wounds, forgiveness, and service. The soul grows well when giving and receiving love. I nourish my soul daily by loving others and being vulnerable to their love. Love is, after all, a verb, an action word, not a noun.” WayGivingWellsSoulActionGrowsGoalGrowthLove IsHealingLove YouWoundsMy SoulVulnerableReceivingVerbsNounsGiving And ReceivingLoving OthersNature LoveReceiving Love Author:Joan Z. Borysenko
“I've done thousands of interviews in my life, and it's a format that I quite enjoy, because I think of questions in interviews as an opportunity to sort of gauge my growth in a way. It gives me an idea of how I'm navigating this world that I'm in.” ThinkingWorldWayGivingIdeasDoneOpportunityEnjoyGrowthThis WorldGive MeInterviewsFormatGauges Author:Ian MacKaye
“We are easily shocked by crimes which appear at once in their full magnitude, but the gradual growth of our own wickedness, endeared by interest, and palliated by all the artifices of self-deceit, gives us time to form distinctions in our own favor” GivingSelfFormGrowthInterestCrimeFavorsDistinctionDeceitShockedWickednessMagnitudeArtifice Book:The Works of Samuel Johnson, LL.D..: The Rambler Source: The Works of Samuel Johnson, LL.D..: The Rambler
“You cannot hammer a girl into anything. She grows as a flower does, she will wither without sun; she will decay in her sheath as a narcissus will if you do not give her air enough; she might fall and defile her head in dust if you leave her without help at some moments in her life; but you cannot fetter her; she must take her own fair form and way if she take any.” IfsWayGivingDoeEnoughMomentsHelpingMightFormFallGirlGrowsGrowthSunAirFlowerFairsDustDecayHammersFettersNarcissus Book:Essays and Letters Selected from the Writings of John Ruskin Source: Essays and Letters Selected from the Writings of John Ruskin
“It is in community that we come to see God in the other. It is in community that we see our own emptiness filled up. It is community that calls me beyond the pinched horizons of my own life, my own country, my own race, and gives me the gifts I do not have within me.” GivingCountryGrowthCommunityMy OwnRaceGive MeFilledEmptinessCall MeHorizonMy Own LifeFilled Up Author:Joan D. Chittister
“The best gift you can ever give your mentor is to grow. They feed off your growth. I believe that everyone has the seed of success inside, but too many people can't find it in themselves and as a result do not reach their potential. But there are those whose purpose in life is to fertilize the seed of potential in another, who are rewarded by seeing that person grow and blossom before their eyes. Raising up others to a higher level is a mentor's joy and sustenance.” PeopleGivingBelievePersonsEyeLife IsJoyPurposeI BelieveGrowsGrowthLevelsResultsSeeingHigherSeedsPurpose Of LifeMentorHigher LevelSustenanceBest Gift Author:John C. Maxwell