Quotes About Growth

Before I die, I want to...be the person I'm meant to be and have that be enough.

Growing fourteen inches in a summer is easy. It's growing out of a label that's hard.

it's time I fear.

It's not moving on, Libbs. It's moving differently. That's all it is. Different life. Different world. Different rules. We don't ever leave that old world behind. We just create a new one.

I feel the way his hand,warm and firm,fits around mine.He may keep changing,but that never does.

Too many people in this world think small is the best they can do. Not you, Libby Strout. You weren't born for small! You don't know how to do small! Small is not in you!

when life suddenly changes and you're left picking up the pieces. She says it's actually how you pick up the pieces that defines you.

I thought: Just one step. One step at a time. You don't have to do them all at once.

I grew out of my clothes because, it turns out, growing fourteen inches in a summer is easy. It's growing out of a label that's hard.

You're actually not a bad guy, Jack Masselin. But I'm not sure you know it yet.

Two broken, lonely people who maybe aren't so broken or lonely anymore.

Growth itself contains the germ of happiness.

You know, that's what you've been doing in a way--coming out. Coming out of your room. Coming out of your house. Coming out of your shell.

One year later, I grew out of my clothes because, it turns out, growing fourteen inches in a summer is easy. It's growing out of a label that's hard. Which

If none of us ever fell short, or put a foot astray, everything would be good in this great world, but we stumble and fall, every one. We must deal with what we have. - Cadfael, Pg. 245-6

Fall in love more often.Love the journey, not just the result-Camryn Manheim

The rhythm of life runs in cycles. There are times in the darkness and times in the light. The energy of life is like the rain forest in Borneo. Things live, grow, die, fall to the forest floor, rot and then they are born again-Olympia Dukakis

We need days of failure because they help humble us, and through them we can see how God's grace is poured out on the humble.

Our faith works because we love, and we love because he has first loved us. Our faith is then emboldened by this responsive love; we've been loved, we've been assured of our justification; our Father speaks of our sanctification as if it had already occurred. By faith, then, we can courageously pursue growth into our true identity.

Without error there can be no brilliancy

How long must we wait for the lilies to bud?

The day is not far off when one ordinary carrot may be pregnant with revolution.

These people came into the world and left it bound to their soil, proliferating on their own dung-hills with slow deliberation like the uncomplicated soul of trees which scatter their seed about their feet, with little conception of any larger world beyond the dun rocks among which they vegetated.

The stench of the manure that Jean was turning had cheered him up a little. He adored its promise of fertility and was sniffing it with the relish of a man smelling a randy woman.