Quotes About Growth

but what June had been thinking of while she searched for the right pieces, tried this one here and that one there, was how it was like a marriage, the accretion of details, of small joys and sorrows and catchphrases and hurts and rituals all adding up to a bigger picture eventually, even if it was impossible to see, while doing it, how it all fit.

blessing of scars: the deeper they were, the more you couldn't feel anything in them at all.

Time will fold over the past if you let it.

In high school I was always thinking, 'Should I be doing more? What else should I be doing?' Now I know it will all come to me. I just have to trust my path, so that's very different.

Maturity comes in three stages: dependence, independence and interdependence

Non sum qualis eram -I am not what I used to be

When I was on Broadway when I was little, I remember always driving through Times Square with my dad to the theater. Now when I go back, you can't even drive on Broadway in the 40s. New Times Square is too touristy to me.

Love," as he now conceived of it, involved "slow growth, many slowly formed bonds, tests by vicissitudes as well as pleasure, mutual sharing of esthetic experiences, humor, sensory things from food through music to passion, etc." Any truly lasting relationship, he concluded would necessitate "a lengthy apprenticeship.

I worked as a secretary, a waitress and a dance teacher - all in high school.

Read,read,read! It is good and promotes better academics. It helps in all sorts of ways. So read no matter what!

I love this idea, that nature dreamed up the same kind of sleep in both humans and birds, fostering the growth of big brains in creatures so far apart on life's tree.

Having experienced everything you don't want in a partner over time, it starts to narrow down to what you actually do want.

Thirties. Go to therapy. Clean up all of the sh-t. Clean up all of the toxins and the noise. Understand who you are. Educate yourself on the self.

Relationships are two people; everyone is accountable. A lot goes into a relationship coming together, and a lot goes into a relationship falling apart. Even if it's 98 percent the other person's fault, it's 2 percent yours.... You can only clean up your side of the street.

I really do believe if you can live through remodeling a home, you can live the rest of your lives together.

People who avoid the brick walls - all power to ya, but we all have to hit them sometimes in order to push through to the next level, to evolve.

It's sad, something coming to an end. It cracks you open, in a way - cracks you open to feeling.

Parenting is one of the hardest jobs on earth.

Once you figure out who you are and what you love about yourself, I think it all kinda falls into place."

True love brings up everything - you're allowing a mirror to be held up to you daily.

Here's the thing: No matter where I go, sad things will happen to me, hard things. People I love will die, and sometimes I'll have to tell friends good-bye. I'll meet people who won't like me, and I'll know loneliness. I don't like it, but that's the way it is.

Postpone facing a fear and it's sure to grow bigger with each passing day

She tasted happiness here that she'd had only a glimpse of with Thomas. Thomas had taught thelonely, frightened Beth Villiers that she was allowed to be happy. Ian was letting her imbibe all the happiness she wanted.

Everyone's bad at relationships until you find the relationship worth fighting for.