Quotes About Development

Suggested Readings Conze, Edward. Buddhism: Its Essence and Development. Mineola, NY: Dover, 1951/ 2003. A short philosophical primer on the essence of Buddhism. Dalai Lama and Howard Cutler. The Art of Happiness: A Guide for Living. New York: Riverhead. 1998. A sales pitch for Buddhism as a way to be happy. Flanagan, Owen. The Bodhisattva's Brain: Buddhism Naturalized.

Perhaps the greatest threat to any sense of coherence to reality is posed by the existence of pain and suffering. Christianity provides a series of mental maps that allow for illness and suffering to be seen as coherent, meaningful, and potentially positive in terms of fostering personal growth and development.

Shaping your character is ultimately the only thing under your control.

The eudaimonic life, for Aristotle, is one in which we have lived to the fullness of our potential; developed our distinctive capacities to their finest points; and accomplished in the world what we have set out to do.

As you develop, the people around you also develop. As you progress, the world progresses with you to a certain degree.

I was a boy that age once, and I know that 97.7 percent of their bodies are semen and the 2.8 percent is an incendiary device for spraying it.

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A flower that grows in the shade of another blooms slowly.

A lifelong learner is a lifelong winner.

Major breakthroughs often come after major breakdowns.

Mistakes are lessons inside out.

One does not become strong by lifting feathers.

One has to crawl like a caterpillar before flying like a butterfly.

Practice never makes you perfect, but it gets you closer to perfection.

Small steps add up to complete big journeys.

Teachers are students inside out.

The best way to overcome your weaknesses is to turn them into strengths.

The caterpillar's end is the butterfly's beginning.

Today's amateurs are tomorrow's champions.

Today's caterpillars are tomorrow's butterflies.

Unleash the potential that is in another and you unleash the potential that is in you.

What you endured was a sign of what you would become.

Your greatest challenges bring out your greatest potential.

Your past must die for your future to live.