Without effort and willingness to experience pain and anxiety, nobody grows, in fact nobody achieves anything worth achieving.

I don't think anyone can grow unless he's loved exactly as he is now, appreciated for what he is rather than what he will be.

Even though you want to try to, never grow up

We teach people how to remember, we never teach them how to grow.

Unless you try to do something beyond what you have already mastered you will never grow.

People don’t really want to grow up, people don’t really want to change, people don’t really want to be happy. As someone so wisely said to me, “Don’t try to make them happy, you’ll only get in trouble. Don’t try to teach a pig to sing; it wastes your time and it irritates the pig.

Even though it was enormously successful, there was no growth going on at all. They were very hard years to get through, to find any sense of purpose. I wasn't allowing myself the service of being who I really am as an artist. I'd given myself dreadful parameters in confining myself to merely what I presumed people wanted.
I never wanted to do this. I never wanted to be out there pleasing people. I wanted to be really stubborn and have people like what I like, not give them what they like.

There is no growth in the comfort zone.

You only grow when you are alone.

We all want to be famous people — and the moment we want to be something, we are no longer free.

We can choose partner, make friends, hire people who make us feel faultless. But think about it – do you never want to grow? Next time you’re tempted to surround yourself with worshippers, go to church.

All I know is this: nobody's very big in the first place, and it looks to me like everybody spends their whole life tearing everybody else down.

If you are just safe about the choices you make, you don't grow.

Never grow up...always down.