To Unlock Your Day, These Eleven Quotes Are Enough

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‘Change begins with individuals, and it begins with imagination. It begins with a different story which succeeds in capturing the imagination more effectively than the now-crumbling old story.’- Sharon Blackie

‘Whatever journey we imagine ourselves to be on, myth and fairy tales can inform our sense of what is possible, and enable us not just to cope with life’s challenges, but to live more intensely, and more richly, in the world.’- Sharon Blackie

‘Don’t maim yourself trying to fit into the glass slipper which was made for someone else.’- Sharon Blackie

‘There is something in us which is always seeking new frontier, which requires an enigma that can’t be easily penetrated.’- Sharon Blackie

‘In a state of awe we feel humbled. In a state of wonder we feel possible.’- Sharon Blackie

You can learn to belong anywhere … if you choose. It’s an act of creation, and like all acts of creation, it’s also an act of love, and an enormous leap of faith.’- Sharon Blackie

‘Above all, open the windows wide: break down the barriers, and let the inside out, and the outside in.’- Sharon Blackie

Always look for the small beauties beneath surface ugliness- the crows holding a colloquium in the middle of a busy, fume-filled traffic island.’- Sharon Blackie

‘Beauty is a body bowed from the weight of a life fully lived. Beauty is hair bleached in the light of a life fully loved. Beauty is the angular, bony edges of a life fully risked.’- Sharon Blackie

Simple living is often a more radical choice … When we slow down and live more simply, we use fewer resources- both our own and the planets.’- Sharon Blackie

‘Apprenticeship requires humility: a little-valued quality in a world hell-bent on glory. All the best fairy-tale heroines knew it to be true: sometimes it’s okay to say that you’re not quite there yet.’- Sharon Blackie

Why You Should Pursue Personal Growth

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Growth takes time. If you want to grow, you must be really patient with yourself.

You need to chase growth every day. Because if you are not doing, you are wasting. If you are not growing, you are losing. And if you are not adding value to your life, you are not growing.

If you want to pursue your OWN personal growth, here are some tips:

Why is growth important?

‘Growth invites you to recognize that behind your outer Purpose lies an inner one: to use your limited time on Earth to deepen our connection with our Inner Core.’- Hitendra Wadhwa, Mentora Institute

‘Growth does not require that we sacrifice the outer pursuit of excellence. Instead, it invites us to make every outer victory linked to inner victory so that the process of becoming a great scientist … , we also end up becoming a great human being.’- Hitendra Wadhwa, Mentora Institute

‘Growth guides us to keep evolving in response to life’s ever-changing conditions.’- Hitendra Wadhwa, Mentora Institute

‘When we stumble in our quest to do well, Growth invites us to forgive ourselves and to ‘keep on keeping on.”’- Hitendra Wadhwa, Mentora Institute

‘Growth concerns itself not with the failures of our past buty with the possibilities of our future, and it encourages us to make the effort now.’- Hitendra Wadhwa, Mentora Institute

‘Growth refuses to see us only in terms of who we are today. Instead, it helps us walk away from from maladaptive traits and behaviors to sculpt ourselves, freely and consciously , into the kind of person we want to become.’- Hitendra Wadhwa, Mentora Institute