Quotes About Growth

Sometimes it's the toughest moments that you learn the most about yourself, and the more you know yourself, the less you are willing to give away.

If we wear our worst reviews like a backpack, they travel with us.

You think I didn't fight the same fight? I halfway convinced myself that as long as Avery was just a riddle or a puzzle, as long as I was just playing, I'd be fine. Well, joke's on me, because somewhere along the way, I stopped playing.

Sometimes you gotta excise a wound before it can heal.

I am an expert at not wanting to want things." I held my sword up for a moment longer, then lowered it, the way he'd lowered his. "But I'm starting to realize that the person I need to be, the person I'm becoming—she's not that girl anymore.

The old man would call us into his study and say the same three words. "Invest. Cultivate. Create.

Life in the fast lane," Michael's reply. "You have to adjust for inflation.

Some people said that broken bones grew back stronger. On the good days, I told myself that was true, that each time the world tried to break me, I became a little less breakable.

Everyone is a little wrong sometimes, Heiress.

I'm older now," Dean said, testing out the possibility. "Wiser, better. I've waited so long, planned so long...." His voice was lower when he profiled, deeper. "Once upon a time, I am an amateur. Now, I'm an artist. Invincible. Unstoppable." "And this time," I said slowly, "you want credit.

You know what they say about baptisms and fire.

I was done knowing better , when I didn't really know anything at all.

I am an expert at not wanting to want things. But I'm starting to realize that the person I need to be, the person I'm becoming—she's not that girl anymore." I'd been given the world. It was time to stop living scared, time to take the reins. It was time to take risks.

Soy una experta en no desear nada. Pero estoy empezando a darme cuenta que la persona que necesito ser, la persona en quien me estoy convirtiendo, ya no es esa chica.

Would you have hated me until you loved me?

If you let this be a game, it doesn't have to hurt.

His kisses, not so good." She patted me consolingly on the shoulder. "He is young. Room for improvement!

How will we know if it's changing us?" I asked. "Maybe we won't. The biggest changes happen so slowly you hardly notice them.

Reggie smiled. 'You haven't changed at all.' Tara took another pile of clothing from her bag and gave Reggie a sly grin from over the top of it. 'Do any of us really?

He nodded. This he understood. The need to learn whatever you could about the things you didn't know, to fill in the gaps, to be constantly supplying your brain with new information and facts.

You're facing your demons. You'll come out stronger.

Either the universe is a cold dead place with a little growth of sentient but atomized beings each all by him- or herself trying to generate meaning, or we are in a universe that is alive with a growth of sentient beings whose members have made a pact with each other to persevere.

We did not make this world...and our childhood inclinations about how to succeed in it turn out to be wrong: often our courage is needed not to dramatically change reality but to accept it and persist in it.

Your hope lies in accepting your life as it now lies before you, forever changed. If you can do that, the peace you seek will follow. Forever changed. I am forever changed.