Emotional Growth Quotes

• Human beings can alter their lives by altering their attitudes of mind.

  William James

  Inspirational, Positive, Success

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• God grant me the serenity to accept the things I cannot change, the courage to change the things I can, and the wisdom to know the difference.

  Reinhold Niebuhr

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

  "How Obama's favorite theologian shaped his first year in office" by John Blake, www.cnn.com. February 5, 2010.

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• An extremely important part of our work toward emotional growth and change will come from examining our belief systems regarding all areas of life. To gain the courage to be yourself, you need to address the beliefs that are keeping you stuck where you are. What beliefs, assumptions, and attitudes are you holding onto even though they no longer enhance your life? It is possible to free yourself from worn-out beliefs and acquire ones that bring happiness, strength, and self-esteem. What we believe we may become.

  Sue Thoele

  Being Yourself, Attitude, Self Esteem

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• At the center of the Universe is a loving heart that continues to beat and that wants the best for every person. Anything that we can do to help foster the intellect and spirit and emotional growth of our fellow human beings, that is our job. Those of us who have this particular vision must continue against all odds. Life is for service.

  Fred Rogers

  Jobs, Heart, Emotional

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• It is precisely because a child's feelings are so strong that they cannot be repressed without serious consequences. The stronger a prisoner is, the thicker the prison walls have to be, which impede or completely prevent later emotional growth.

  Alice Miller

  Strong, Children, Wall

  Alice Miller (2008). “The Drama of the Gifted Child: The Search for the True Self, Third Edition”, p.33, Hachette UK

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• Play, Incorporating Animistic and Magical Thinking Is Important Because It:
  Fosters the healthy, creative and emotional growth of a child;
  Forms the best foundation for later intellectual growth.
  Provides a way in which children get to know the world and creates possibilities for different ways of responding to it.
  Fosters empathy and wonder.

  Rachel Carson

  Children, Emotional, Thinking

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• A necessary part of our intelligence is on the line as the oral tradition becomes less and less important. There was a time throughout our land when it was common for stories to be told and retold, a most valuable exercise, for the story retold is the story reexamined over and over again at different levels of intellectual and emotional growth.

  Wes Jackson

  Exercise, Emotional, Land

  Wes Jackson (2015). “Becoming Native to This Place”, p.89, Counterpoint

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• In a series of wonderful essays, Evan Handler gives himself up to us - warts and all. To our amusement and bemusement we share in his emotional growth as he struggles to mature. I not only laughed along with him but felt that I too had grown a little along the way. Who could ask for more?

  Lewis Black

  Struggle, Emotional, Giving

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• The secret of a happy marriage is to serve God and each other. The goal of marriage is unity and oneness, as well as self-development. Paradoxically, the more we serve one another, the greater is our spiritual and emotional growth.

  Ezra Taft Benson

  Spiritual, Emotional, Self

  Ezra Taft Benson (1988). “The Teachings of Ezra Taft Benson”, Bookcraft Pubs

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• Parents have this twisted belief that anyone under the age of about twenty simply can’t know what love is, like the age to love is assessed in the same way the law assesses the legal age to drink. They think that the ‘emotional growth’ of a teenager’s mind is too underdeveloped to understand love, to know if it’s ‘real’ or not.

  J.A. Redmerski

  Love, Real, Teenager

  J. A. Redmerski (2013). “The Edge of Never”, p.34, HarperCollins UK

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• We probably stagnate our children's emotional growth by not letting them have some separation from us.

  Jeff Foxworthy

  Children, Emotional, Growth

  "Jeff Foxworthy. A comedian gets serious about reading". BookPage interview, bookpage.com. October 2010.

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