Character Quote by Nelson Mandela

Pleasant experiences make life delightful. Painful experiences lead to growth.

— Anthony de Mello

Growth itself contains the germ of happiness.

— Pearl S. Buck

psychological growth is the great gift and inexorable fact of human life.

— Jean Baker Miller

Personal growth can be painful, because it can make us feel ashamed and humiliated to face our own darkness. But our spiritual goal is…

— Marianne Williamson

The First Splendid Truth: To be happy, I need to think about feeling good, feeling bad, and feeling right, in an atmosphere of growth.

— Gretchen Rubin

“Happiness is neither virtue or pleasure nor this thing or that, but simply growth. We are happy when we are growing.”

— William Butler Yeats

Growth begins with looking at those things we desire most and finding the bliss in working towards them, not in achieving them.

— Senora Roy

We experience positive growth not by judging others, but by examining ourselves.

— Terry Mark

Ugliness and evil are necessary for growth but they may be experienced vicariously.

— Jiddu Krishnamurti

“Growth is simply learning how to suffer, gracefully, elegantly constantly moving and traveling without letting your pain tear you apart.”

— nikitta gill

For the human mind is seldom at stay: If you do not grow better, you will most undoubtedly grow worse.

— Samuel Richardson

If you want to choose the pleasure of growth, prepare yourself for some pain.

— Anonymous