Quotes About Development

Psychological or spiritual development always requires a greater capacity for anxiety and ambiguity.

Each is deceived by the sense of finality peculiar to the stage of development at which he stands.

But again and again I note that the individuation process is confused with the coming of the ego into consciousness and that the ego is in consequence identified with the self, which naturally produces a hopeless conceptual muddle.

Our biggest problems cannot be resolved. They must be outgrown.

The unconscious always tries to produce an impossible situation in order to force the individual to bring out his very best. Otherwise one stops short of one's best, one is not complete, one does not realize oneself. What is needed is an impossible situation where one has to renounce one's own will and one's own wit and do nothing but wait and trust to the impersonal power of growth and development.

There is no difference in principle between organic and psychic growth. As a plant produces its flower, so the psyche creates its symbols.

We don't so much solve our problems as we outgrow them.

The forlorn state of consciousness in our world is due primarily to loss of instinct, and the reason for this lies in the development of the human mind over the past aeon. The more power man had over nature, the more his knowledge and skill went to his head, and the deeper became his contempt for the merely natural and accidental, for all irrational data—including the objective psyche, which is everything that consciousness is not.

in order to undergo a far-reaching psychological development, neither outstanding intelligence nor any other talent is necessary. . .

FRED ROGERS ENTERED THE WORLD WITH A SERIOUS DISADVANTAGE, albeit a typical one: he was born a child.

The solution of adult problems tomorrow depends in large measure upon the way our children grow up today. There is no greater insight into the future than recognizing when we save our children, we save ourselves. —MARGARET MEAD

It's what you learn after you know it all that counts. —John Wooden

The goal of intervention is to use their strengths to learn what they need to know next to benefit fully from classroom instruction.

The significance of things can only evolve in time.Nothing is what it is until it becomes what it must become

Isn't amazing how life is one thing and then becomes something else?

We were all forged in the crucible.

That's all we can do, Brit. Take steps. Take enough of them and suddenly, you're somewhere.

Es sólo un día, un periodo de veinticuatro horas para superarte a ti mismo -Adam

because one day I was going to have to go through a metamorphosis like a caterpillar transforming into a butterfly

They evolved into birds.

Genius will live and thrive without training. —MARGARET FULLER

I prefer to think of myself as a musician who is still learning and trying to do something every time out.

And every philosophy of history bears in itself the seed of a theology.

The Spirit's work in the renewal of things proceeds according to a fixed, systematic method, in certain distinct stages.