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Journaling Prompts
Growing Older - How do you feel about the unstoppable march of time? Did you worry about growing older when you were younger? Do you worry about it now? As you watched your parents or older siblings age, how did it impact you? Do you fear or anticipate mental or physical infirmities? Is having someone to grow old with, or people to care for you a concern or an expectation?
Breaking Through and Change - Can you recall a true breakthrough where you had a change of heart or change of mind? Was there ever, or is there now, a part of your life where you see a barrier that seems impenetrable? what did you need to change in order to break through the wall. Once you got through, did ou find out that the wall wasreal, or in your mind? Have you experienced what first felt like a breakdown but ended up being a breakthrough? Has an obstacle ever become an opportunity, by your hand or by another?
Outgrowing - How do you know if you've outgrown a friend or a relationship? Is outgrowing about growing beyond or growing apart? How did you handle the separation? Have you been able to separate amicably, or with rancor? Has someone ended a relationship with you because they believed they had outgrown you? what about moving beyond or outgrowing family members? What part of separating from family is, for you, a natural or normal part of the maturation process?
Towards the Sun - Plants turn toward the sun as one of their main sources of life. What is your greatest source of life-giving light and heat? What part of you is like a seed, and what parts are like the branches and leaves? Has the 'sun' ever been taken away and stunted your growth? Has the 'sun' ever been too bright for the pace of your growth?
Growth Chart - How do you measure your own growth and progress in different areas? Do you measure yourself against others or against your own past level of accomplishment? If you could create a chart to map your progress in an important area in which you want to gow, wha would the markers be? How would you know if you reached the top of your chart? Is there a top? Does the top of the chart move because of your changing expectations or self-criticism?
Work in Progress - How comfortable are you with being a work in progress? Are you gentle with yourself or a tough critic? Can you identify a place where you are not where you'd like to be yet, but can be peaceful about where you are? Is anyone else in your life critical about your progress in any areas? Does that change how you feel about yourself, or are you more self-contained?
Growing Pains - Growth can be painful and difficult. Have you struggled with accepting the necessary difficulty sometimes involved in growing and changing? what has been your most painful growth experience to date? Have you had to let go of old beliefs, safety or comfort to make a real change in the quality of your life? What kind of pain have you had to suffer to move your life forward?
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Quotes
Growth itself contains the germ of
happiness. Pearl S. Buck
Growth, in some curious way, I suspect,
depends on being always in motion just a little bit, one way or another. Norman Mailer
The joy of life consists in the exercise of
one's energies, continual growth, constant change, the enjoyment of every new
experience. To stop means simply to die. The eternal mistake of mankind is to
set up an attainable ideal. Aleister Crowley
Life is growth. If we stop growing,
technically and spiritually, we are as good as dead. Morihei Ueshiba
The purpose of learning is growth, and our
minds, unlike our bodies, can continue growing as we continue to live. Mortimer Adler
And when native man left off this form of
development, his humanization was retarded in growth. Standing Bear
Growth is the only evidence of life. John Henry Newman
All change is not growth, as all movement
is not forward. Ellen Glasgow
For my own personal growth I had to set out
on my own. Frank Press
Where there is age there is evolution,
where there is life there is growth. Anjelica Huston
The growth and development of people is the
highest calling of leadership. Harvey S. Firestone
Growth is a painful process. Wilma Mankiller
Those who improve with age embrace the
power of personal growth and personal achievement and begin to replace youth
with wisdom, innocence with understanding, and lack of purpose with
self-actualization. Bo Bennett
We need 4 hugs a day for survival. We need
8 hugs a day for maintenance. We need 12 hugs a day for growth. Virginia Satir
It's hard to find a way forward. When
you're 18 it happens in huge chunks every day, but after 20 years, growth is
much more costly. James Taylor
I'm really looking forward to, not more of
the same, but a continual growth. Ben Harper
I think that growth and spiritual awareness
come in slow increments. Sometimes you don't know it's happening. Mariel Hemingway
We find comfort among those who agree with
us - growth among those who don't. Frank Howard Clark
We are not born all at once, but by bits.
The body first, and the spirit later; and the birth and growth of the spirit,
in those who are attentive to their own inner life, are slow and exceedingly
painful. Mary Antin
Close friends contribute to our personal
growth. They also contribute to our personal pleasure, making the music sound
sweeter, the wine taste richer, the laughter ring louder because they are
there. Judith Viorst
Growth demands a temporary surrender of
security. Gail Sheehy
People desire to separate their worlds into
polarities of dark and light, ugly and beautiful, good and evil, right and
wrong, inside and outside. Polarities serve us in our learning and growth, but
as souls we are all. Joy Page
Happiness, contentment, the health and growth
of the soul, depend, as men have proved over and over again, upon some simple
issue, some single turning of the soul. George A. Smith
I think that one's art is a growth inside
one. I do not think one can explain growth. It is silent and subtle. One does
not keep digging up a plant to see how it grows. Emily Carr
A good marriage is one which allows for
change and growth in the individuals and in the way they express their love. Pearl S. Buck
Love dies only when growth stops. Pearl S. Buck
Intellectual growth should commence at
birth and cease only at death. Albert Einstein
Intolerance is itself a form of violence
and an obstacle to the growth of a true democratic spirit. Mohandas Gandhi
Increase of material comforts, it may be
generally laid down, does not in any way whatsoever conduce to moral growth. Mohandas Gandhi
Without continual growth and progress, such
words as improvement, achievement, and success have no meaning. Benjamin Franklin
Ambition is the germ from which all growth
of nobleness proceeds. Oscar Wilde
Conformity is the jailer of freedom and the
enemy of growth. John F. Kennedy
Between stimulus and response there is a
space. In that space is our power to choose our response. In our response lies
our growth and our freedom. Viktor E. Frankl
A man's growth is seen in the successive
choirs of his friends. Ralph Waldo Emerson
People are like dirt. They can either
nourish you and help you grow as a person or they can stunt your growth and
make you wilt and die. Plato
The key to growth is the introduction of
higher dimensions of consciousness into our awareness. Lao Tzu
True friendship is a plant of slow growth,
and must undergo and withstand the shocks of adversity, before it is entitled
to the appellation. George Washington
Ever since I was a child I have had this
instinctive urge for expansion and growth. To me, the function and duty of a
quality human being is the sincere and honest development of one's potential. Bruce Lee
Strength and growth come only through
continuous effort and struggle. Napoleon Hill
Happiness is neither virtue nor pleasure
nor this thing nor that but simply growth, We are happy when we are growing. William Butler Yeats
Nature shows that with the growth of
intelligence comes increased capacity for pain, and it is only with the highest
degree of intelligence that suffering reaches its supreme point. Arthur Schopenhauer
The strongest principle of growth lies in
the human choice. George Eliot
It is not all bad, this getting old,
ripening. After the fruit has got its growth it should juice up and mellow. God
forbid I should live long enough to ferment and rot and fall to the ground in a
squash. Josh Billings
The fatal metaphor of progress, which means
leaving things behind us, has utterly obscured the real idea of growth, which
means leaving things inside us. Gilbert K. Chesterton
All growth is a leap in the dark, a
spontaneous unpremeditated act without benefit of experience. Henry Miller
I have always looked upon decay as being
just as wonderful and rich an expression of life as growth. Henry Miller
All the evidence that we have indicates
that it is reasonable to assume in practically every human being, and certainly
in almost every newborn baby, that there is an active will toward health, an
impulse towards growth, or towards the actualization. Abraham Maslow
In our work and in our living, we must
recognize that difference is a reason for celebration and growth, rather than a
reason for destruction. Audre Lorde
Men are but children of a larger growth,
Our appetites as apt to change as theirs, And full as craving too, and full as
vain. Diane Arbus
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