Quotes About Growth

The moment that we think we know, we've lost our perspective on wisdom.

I learned new things about myself, about God, about life—all of it possible only because I was fired. I feel thankful.

That's the best thing about little sisters: they spend so much time wishing they were elder sisters that in the end they're far wiser than the elder ones could ever be. —Gemma Burgess

Before the children,' Alice said, nodding her head slowly. 'Children change everything. Family change everything. You must cross the river, to the other side of yourself. After that you find it.

Forgiveness is not a single act, but a matter of constant practice.

Diana Norman

In every letter, in every line, she saw him. He hadn't changed - he'd only grown into the man he'd meant to be.

The old poems said that lovers were made for each other. But that wasn't true for Kai and Elliot. They hadn't been made for each other at all—quite the opposite. But they'd grown together, the two of them, until they were like two trees from a single trunk, stronger together than either could have been alone.

There was that word again.Mature. Was this what maturity was? Giving up on the things we wanted because we knew we'd never get them?

We've known each other for a while," I said. "And our feelings just ... blossomed." "Like fungus off rotted meat?" Josh snarked.

It was amazing, all the thoughts that oozed out as soon as a single crack appeared in the surface of your beliefs.

My travels led me to where I am today. Sometimes these steps have felt painful, difficult, but led me to greater happiness and opportunites.

I can be a better me than anyone can.

Sometimes you must go through the ugly to get to the pretty

Reading a book is not change the words.

Memories were like bookmarks. Lately she didn't like the pages they were marking.

I think when you're young you should be a lot with yourself and your sufferings. Then one day you get out where the sun shines and the rain rains and the snow snows, and it all comes together.

Most of us travel through life with heavy, bulky emotional baggage. To our great relief, with meditative practices and their healing modalities, we can shrink this baggage to carry-on size.

Success produces success, just as money produces money.

Who would deduce the dragonfly from the larva, the iris from the bud, the lawyer from the infant? ...We are all shape-shifters and magical reinventors. Life is really a plural noun, a caravan of selves.

Symbolic of life, hair bolts from our head[s]. Like the earth, it can be harvested, but it will rise again. We can change its color and texture when the mood strikes us, but in time it will return to its original form, just as Nature will in time turn our precisely laid-out cities into a weed-way.

seven and fourteen

till you get to the full Moon.

Moon. That's when we want things to grow and get bigger and bigger. Even if you want to lose weight, when it comes to a vision board, think of the weight