Quotes About Growth

But would it be that easy? To adjust my lens a little? To stop wallowing in all this murky sorrow? To change my attitude, let the sunlight in, fix myself?

And here's something else I learned: you lose some people that way - fast and blinding. But some people inch away from you slowly, in barely discernible steps.

Nothing like pointing out mistakes someone else is making to help you ignore your own.

I've lived the life I wanted in my thirties, my forties, my fifties - they're all different lives, with different desires, which you never realize when you're young.

Sweetheart, I know it can be easy to miss when it's your own child—I think I might have missed it with you—but eventually you need to stand back and admire the person they've become. It's almost never the person you wanted, or expected, them to be, but once you can see them as separate from you, it's pretty incredible how much you can respect them for the path they've chosen.

It hurt to kill a dream, like tearing petals off a rose in full bloom.

His father clasped his shoulders, holding him at arm's length, looking him up and down. "You've grown." "It's been eleven years," said Jack numbly. "Of course I've grown.

Happiness isn't a gift you can give. It's a task you work on together.

When you raise your expectations of yourself, you create a space to grow into.

The desire for knowledge, like the thirst for riches, increases ever with the acquisition of it.

But desire of knowledge, like the thirst of riches, increases ever with the acquisition of it. The

The desire of knowledge, like the thirst of riches, increases ever with the acquisition of it.

For the socially timid, the kitchen is the place to be. At least, it is a place to start.

Marriage, it turned out, was a series of small events.

I love the process of learning a thing. It's doing a thing I find so boring.

You need to screw up to learn. You need to experience to create greatness.

I do know that living in the past only messes up your present

Dig a little, he continues. Search. Examine. Sculpt from the inside out, and not the other way around. Don't be afraid to screw up along the way.

You need to screw up to learn. You need to experience to create greatness. It's not just about bowls, you know.

Sometimes I think high school is one long hazy activity: if you are tough enough to survive this, they'll let you become an adult. I hope it's worth it.

A little kid asks my dad why that man is chopping down the tree. Dad: He's not chopping it down. He's saving it. Those branches were long dead from disease. All plants are like that. By cutting off the damage you make it possible for the tree to grow again. You watch - by the end of summer, this tree will be the strongest on the block.

Nothing is perfect. Flaws are interesting. Be the tree.

Mr. Freeman: You are getting better at this, but it's not good enough. This looks like a tree,but it is an average, ordinary, everyday, boring tree. Breathe life into it. Make it bend - trees are flexible, so they don't snap. Scar it, give it a twisted branch - perfect trees don't exist. Nothing is perfect. Flaws are interesting. Be the tree.

I was good at digging holes. It was the rest of life I sucked at.