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Growth demands a temporary surrender of security. It may mean giving up familiar but limiting patterns, safe but unrewarding work, values no longer believed in, and relationships that have lost their meaning. -- John C. Maxwell
In my early professional years I was asking the question: How can I treat, or cure, or change this person? Now I would phrase the question in this way: How can I provide a relationship which this person may use for his own personal growth? -- Carl R. Rogers
One of the greatest things about being an artist is, as you get older, if you keep working hard in relationship to what you want the world to be and how you want it to become, there is a history of interesting growth that resonates with different moments in your life. -- Catherine Opie
Whenever I'm trying to decide how to spend my precious time, energy, or money, I ask myself a series of questions. 'Will this broaden or deepen my relationships?' 'Will this contribute to an atmosphere of growth in my life?' 'Is this a way to 'Be Gretchen?' and 'Will this help connect me to my past?' -- Gretchen Rubin
Every relationship, every situation is part of a divinely created and highly specific curriculum for your soul growth -- Marianne Williamson
In general, if a couple cannot expand their original rules and boundaries to accommodate personal growth, the relationship disintegrates. -- Caroline Myss
Between my past, the present and the future, there is one common factor: Relationship and Trust. This is the foundation of our growth. -- Dhirubhai Ambani
A relationship is like life. It isn't a process of preservation, but of change and growth. Unless you grow and change together, you will change ... and grow apart. -- Bill Crawford

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