Quotes About Growth

We must not run from our unhappiness. We must listen to it. It has much to tell us.

Life's all about the revolution, isn't it?" he said. "The one inside, I mean.

she had said no. "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.

His suffering will teach him kindness and compassion. He'll find his heart again.

Sera was beginning to see that love wasn't pretty words and easy promises. Love was hard. It challenged you and changed you. It filled your heart and sometimes hardened it too. Love demanded sacrifices. She'd made many over the last few weeks, and knew she would be called upon to make many more.

But what if you don't like your own story. What then?

A journey of a thousand miles starts with a single step.

Mortals do not like uncertainty. They do not like change. Change is frightening. Change is painful." Excerpt From Stepsister

Becoming a parent changed you forever, as nothing else could.

She knew that even tiny wounds, left untended, can fester and swell and turn a heart black.

But life isn't a fairy tale, Belle.

Wounds can heal if you pull the thorns out," she said. "For some, perhaps

Roses have thorns, and thorns leave wounds.

But Belle, the servants…they tell me you're in there all day. Don't you think a bit of balance is needed? An escape can become escapism before we even know it. Books are wonderful things, but you can't live in someone else's story. You have to live your own story." Belle looked up at him with deep pain in her eyes. What she said next broke his heart for the second time that morning. "But what if you don't like your story? What then?

Difficulties are things that show people what they are!

We all make mistakes," Lucanos said. "The danger lies in letting those mistakes make us." "Make us what?" asked Belle. "Make us believe we can't put things right. Make us think there's no hope. Make us give up," the beetle said, giving Belle a very direct look.

Right now I want a word that describes the feeling that 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, for the first time, for the very first time, that there will now be a before and an after , a was and a will be . And that you will never again quite be the same person you were.

Life's all about the revolution, isn't it? The one inside, I mean. You can't change history. You can't change the world. All you can ever change is yourself.

You love your music." "I did when I was trying to shut everything out. Now I'm trying to let everything in.

When something awful happens, sometimes people get stuck.

Boys are two years behind girls in maturity level.

I like doing things that make me uncomfortable. I try not to have a comfort zone

They resumed walking. Alex felt an ache in his eyes and throat. "I don't know what happened to me," he said, shaking his head. "I honestly don't." Bennie glanced at him, a middle-aged man with chaotic silver hair and thoughtful eyes. "You grew up, Alex," he said, "just like the rest of us.

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