Quotes About Growth

Just when you think you know something, it gets turned around and challenged in some way. But those changes are welcome because you end up learning more.

There is no wasted effort. There is no wasted effort. It will all add to the path. It will all add to the journey. Somehow. You just can't even imagine how it will. But you just need to do things fully to the best of your ability. And you go towards the thing that you love. What you love to do.

Just like there's always time for pain, there's always time for healing.

i've found that letting something stay broken for a little while helps me understand it.

His hair was longer now, brushing the tops of his shoulders, and the weight of it made it hang straight and shiny. He'd lost more weight and gotten kind of tan. He looked about five years older. And then there was me, dressed as sushi.

Anyone whos had something truly crappy happen to them will tell you: Its all about Before and After.

Anyone who's had something truly crappy happen to them will tell you: It's all about Before and After. What I'm talking about here is the ka-pow, shake-you-to-your-core-and-turn-your-bones-to-plastic kind of crappy.

My cousin Richard always says that everyone has two marriages, but the lucky ones get to have them both with the same person.

One thing I know for certain is that the longer I live and the more I learn, the more I realize that I know very little.

You have to open up to the world and learn optimism...Contentment with the past, happiness with the present, and hope for the future. Learned optimisim.

Broaden your horizons. They're the only ones you'll ever have, so make the suckers as wide as possible.

Words fail me sometimes. I have read most every word in the Webster's International Dictionary of the English Language, but I still have trouble making them come when I want them to. Right now I want a word that describes the feeling you get – a cold sick feeling deep down inside – when you know something is happening that will change you, and you don't want it to, but you can't stop it. And you know you will never be the same again.

Reading became my sanctuary," Belle continued. "I found so much in those books. I found histories that inspired me. Poems that delighted me. Novels that challenged me…" Belle paused, suddenly self-conscious. She looked down at her hands, and in a wistful voice, said, "What I really found, though, was myself.

We never know who we are... until we're tested

Mortals aren't born strong, they become strong.

There is an advantage to be found in most everything that happens to you, even if it is not immediately apparent.

I think your vision gets better as you get older.

One is not born knowing how to lead, one learns.

I'm always doing things I can't do. Otherwise, I'd never get to do them.

It's all about the pain, isn't it?

I think we all make mistakes. What matters is that we don't let our mistakes make us.

I try to remember that hard knocks leave dents.

Wounds can heal if you pull the thorns out.

We all make mistakes, the danger lies in letting those mistakes make us. Make us believe we can't put things right. Make us think there's no hope. Make us give up.