Grow through life,Don't just go through life

by Elizabeth Mbata

By Ivette K Caballero
Everything in life helps you grow if you decide so. Life gives you countless lessons, the most important lessons where you can develop and shape your character, which determines the quality of your life. You get to choose whether you let the lessons, situations and circumstances in your life define you, strengthen you or consume you. Life is composed of ups and downs, and you will experience both. Do not let life pass you by, learn from it. Grow through every situation that life presents you with - learn from the good and learn from the not so good.—

Growing through life and not just going through life is the best decision that you can make to live a worthy life - a life to be remembered. Growing through life will allow you to learn how to face your challenges and overcome your struggles courageously. Growing through life will help you gain a winning attitude to celebrate your successes and embrace your happiness. —#BestAdvice

How do you start growing through life? Here's a helpful guide:

Have an Attitude of Altitude—

1. "What we think determines what happens to us, so if we want to change our lives, we need to stretch our minds."—Wayne Dyer

2. "Choosing to be positive and having a grateful attitude is going to determine how you're going to live your life." Joel Osteen

3. "Life is a series of experiences, each one of which makes us bigger, even though sometimes it is hard to realize this. For the world was built to develop character, and we must learn that the setbacks and grieves which we endure help us in our marching onward."— Henry Ford

4. "The only disability in life is a bad attitude."—Scott Hamilton

5. "The greatest day in your life and mine is when we take total responsibility for our attitudes. That's the day we truly grow up." John C. Maxwell

6. "Bad things do happen; how I respond to them defines my character and the quality of my life. I can choose to sit in perpetual sadness, immobilized by the gravity of my loss, or I can choose to rise from the pain and treasure the most precious gift I have - life itself." Walter Anderson

7. "Anyone who stops learning is old, whether at twenty or eighty. Anyone who keeps learning stays young. The greatest thing in life is to keep your mind young." Henry Ford

8. "You cannot have a positive life and a negative mind." Joyce Meyer
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Have Courage

1. "One isn't necessarily born with courage, but one is born with potential. Without courage, we cannot practice any other virtue with consistency. We can't be kind, true, merciful, generous, or honest."—Maya Angelou

2. "What would life be if we had no courage to attempt anything?"—Vincent Van Gogh

3. "You may not always have a comfortable life and you will not always be able to solve all of the world's problems at once but don't ever underestimate the importance you can have because history has shown us that courage can be contagious and hope can take on a life of its own." Michelle Obama

4. "I learned that courage was not the absence of fear, but the triumph over it. The brave man is not he who does not feel afraid, but he who conquers that fear."——Nelson Mandela

5. "How few there are who have courage enough to own their faults, or resolution enough to mend them."—Benjamin Franklin

6. "Be courageous. I have seen many depressions in business. Always America has emerged from these stronger and more prosperous. Be brave as your fathers before you. Have faith! Go forward!"—Thomas A. Edison

7. "Courage is on display every day, and only the courageous wring the most out of life".—Zig Ziglar

8. "Success is not final, failure is not fatal: it is the courage to continue that counts."—Winston Churchill

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IB Inspiring Woman 2011