Quotes About Growth

I was a happy kid up until I hit the teen years.

Travel is rich with learning opportunities, and the ultimate sourvenir is a broader perspective.

God sometimes removes a person from your life for your protection. Don't run after them.

We are products of our past, but we don't have to be prisoners of it.

Experience is not what happens to you. It is what you do with what happens to you. Don't waste your pain; use it to help others.

God intentionally allows you to go through painful experiences to equip you for ministry to others.

Why is this happening to me? Why am I having such a difficult time? One answer is that life is supposed to be difficult! It's what enables us to grow. Remember, earth is not heaven!

Once you can accept failure, you can have fun and success.

No one wants to see cool people doing brilliantly. I want to see the struggle. That's the fun bit.

Sometimes success will get in the way of maturity - at least temporarily.

The NFL has been an amazing page in this chapter of my life. I pray that all successive adventures offer me the same potential for growth, success and most importantly fun.

And I think if you look at any relationship, for the relationship to be productive and to move forward and to grow, sometimes things have to be said that one person or the other person is not going to like to hear.

I stepped away to find out more about myself, which I was having difficulty doing as a football player. I got a chance to travel the world. I studied Eastern philosophy, and I've grown as a person so much.

I don't think people change. I think they definitely mature. But I think the essence of what I am today is the same as when I was five years old. It's just maturity. I've become a healthier, fuller expression of that essence.

When you make that crossover from life to real life, when you're not treated as a child anymore but as a man, and you are no longer given the benefit of the doubt, it takes some courage to face that.

Do what you haven't done is the key, I think.

I am a child but I have to think and act like a woman, this business forces you to.

The family you come from isn't as important as the family you're going to have.

I feel the older I get, the more I'm learning to handle life. Being on this quest for a long time, it's all about finding yourself.

Ringo: 'I had no schooling before I joined The Beatles and no schooling after The Beatles. Life is a great education.

I never studied anything, really. I didn't study the drums. I joined bands and made all the mistakes onstage

Perfectionism was my enemy now.

Even more beautiful than the land that we passed, or the months spent camping on the plains, was learning to live with uncertainty.

Until you become different, you have not found yourself.