Quotes About Growth

It was probably a function of getting older—I think we all become exaggerated versions of ourselves

You can't go back," he says. "Just look forward. You're doing the right thing now.

When you are in a relationship, you are aware that it might end. You might grow apart, find someone else, simply fall out of love. But a friendship isn't a zero-sum game, and as such, you assume that it will last forever, especially an old friendship. You take its permanence for granted, which might be the very thing so dear about it.

Some thinks will never be okay.

My little girls are all grown-up. I remember when the three of you were in diapers, running around at the pool with your little orange water wings. And now look at you," my mom says, so nostalgic that she seems to forget all her gripes with Belinda. And me for that matter.

Nada es perfecto nunca [...]. Lo que cuenta es lo que tú haces.

Estoy aprendiendo que la perfección no es lo que importa. De hecho, es precisamente lo que te puede destruir, si se lo permites.

Still, I don't like his use of the word fine. I want to be better than fine.

It occurred to me that few things tell the story of a woman's life like her closet

past something

grocery lists. That was back when I thought my

If you would truly rather be dead than go on living the way you do, you have nothing to lose by trying to change things, have you? Britta said, carefully keeping any trace of pity from her voice. There is more to life than Illica, you now. The world is wide, and full of wonders.

I went to the doctor, I went to the mountains I looked to the children, I drank from the fountain There's more than one answer to these questions pointing me in a crooked line And the less I seek my source for some definitive The closer I am to fine.

Now I know a refuge never grows From a chin in a hand in a thoughtful pose Gotta tend the earth if you want a rose

No vivieron felices para siempre, pues nada vive eternamente; pero vivieron tantos años como es natural, y después pasaron juntos a la tierra donde los árboles florecen y dan fruto a un mismo tiempo, y donde las flores de primavera nunca se marchitan.

Change for your own sake, if you must, not for what you imagine another will ask of you.

I don't know why hurting means getting better.

Sometimes you must shed your skin to save it.

She gets sick of things fast, it's from being an adult.

Once I was a stupid girl; now I am an angry woman.

No, I mean everything feels different, but it's because I'm different.

Little by little; the way out of the mine was as long as the way in.

You and I are lucky, Nurse Power. I frowned. Lucky? To be alive and well, you mean? To be here, in the middle of this. We'll never learn more or faster.

To travel is to turn the pages of the great book of life.