Quotes About Growth

He used to say that plants are like children." "Really? How so?" "They come from a seed, sprout limbs, grow taller, stronger—but you have to nourish them." "Do

I am like the pencil I constantly sharpen with a knife; I am just a dull nub of the person I was.

we live for the quiet, intimate moments that mark not our calendars but our hearts: The day we marry. The days our children are born. Their first step. Their first word. Their first day of school. And when our children grow, we remember those moments with a touch of melancholy: the day they get their driver's license, the day we drive them to college, the day they marry, and the day they have their children.

Tracy's mother had liked to say that when a person hit seventy, they aged in dog's years; the transformation was that much more pronounced.

For better or for worse—and too often it is for worse for so many of us—adulthood had arrived, whether I wanted it to or not.

something about the past. Let me move forward

We'd be who we were, and we could either come to grips with this fact and like the person we'd become, or live with regret and disappointment. My

grown a size larger, in Rowe's opinion. More than

You're human, Tracy, which means you're not perfect. You're going to fail, through no fault of your own. That's part of being human, being imperfect. The question is, can you live with being imperfect? Can you live with failure?

spent a career finding interesting things to do with my life, and I've lived several lifetimes as a result. I can add this to the

Moving forward doesn't mean forgetting the past. Moving forward means doing something about the past.

Wisdom too often never comes, and so one ought not to reject it merely because it comes late.

Come the fall, I would be leaving for college and my mother would lose her little boy, and I would lose the person who had always been there for me, my fiercest advocate since the day I'd been born.

That's not to say she wasn't sincerely happy for me, but with every new beginning, there is an inevitable end we must first accept, and my mother was struggling to accept that her boy had finished high school and would be leaving home in just a few short months.

You won't heal, never completely, but it will get better with time.

Did you do better than that?

Mirar hacia delante no significa olvidar el pasado, sino precisamente hacer algo con ese pasado.

There is no place in the Kingdom for a slacker, for such an attitude not only precludes any growth in grace and knowledge but also destroys any usefulness on the world battlefield of evangelism.

One cannot transform a world except as individuals in the world are transformed, and individuals cannot be changed except as they are molded in the hands of the Master.

When you allow the elevation of a man, one can be sure that you'll profit by his advancement.

The thing was not a human — it could not be; it was a growth of Life from the pits of blasphemous creation — a perversion of evolutionary development. The

We must expect reverses, even defeats. They are sent to teach us wisdom and prudence, to call forth greater energies, and to prevent our falling into greater disasters.

The education of a man is never completed until he dies.

The education of a man ( or woman ) is never completed until he dies.