Quotes About Growth

People will disappoint you. The question to ask is whether you can learn to live with the disappointment and move on.

I change the world and the world changes me

There is no progress without cost.

Every time you observe you give yourself the opportunity to learn.

I soon realized that no journey carries one far unless, as it extends into the world around us, it goes an equal distance into the world within.

They are trying to hold on to a world that no longer exists. They are blind and terrified because they feel it slipping away from them. They are gripping thin air but they keep trying desperately to hold on to it - hoping the air will turn into something familiar and solid.

I'm too old to recover, too narrow to forgive myself.

I found that Dottie's middle age, old age, made rock of much that had been fluid, and eccentricities once charming became too strange for safety or comfort.

When you stop learning, stop listening, stop looking and asking questions, always new question, then it is time to die

Despite the forecast, live like it's spring.

Herbert's And now in age I bud again After so many deaths I live and write; I once more smell the dew and rain and relish versing.

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Too often in our lives, accomplishment and doing overshadow growth and becoming. We frantically scurry around, trying to paint the picture with our activities, but our being must be settled before our doing. George MacDonald said it well: "He thought to gain a thing by a doing, when the very thing desired was a being."8

We have been conditioned by today's advertising to respond instantly to the word housewife with the word drudgery. ... A creative Counterpart is more than just a helper. She is a woman who having chosen (or have found herself in) the vocation of wife and mother, decides to learn and grow in all the areas this role and to work as hard as if she were aiming for the presidency of corporation. Functioning as a professional in all areas of marriage is the essence of being a creative counterpart.

Never use limitations as an excuse for mediocrity.

how do we learn to accept and forgive those who have both succeeded and failed in helping us become who we are?

tears have a purpose. they are what we carry of the ocean, and perhaps we must become the sea, give ourselves to it, if we are to be transformed.

even if the older mind lives by remembering, the young mind lives by forgetting.

It was amazing how flowers could grow in the damnedest places, but the Devlin weed patch had sprouted quite a wildflower in Faith.

Something is happening, all right. But it's perfectly natural, Lily. Stop worrying and let me show you what it means to be a woman." Her

So," he said, putting an arm around her shoulders and escorting her toward his small wooden house, "you've finally come to your senses and decided to settle down and make a real life for yourself. The major seems like a fine man to me." Lily wondered if Rupert had overlooked the fact that she and Caleb hated each other. "He's a pompous, overbearing, bullying ass," she replied. Rupert grinned. "Just what you need," he retorted. As

that she must leave the convent to teach seven children (The Sound of Music) or that he's given a chance to fight the champion (Rocky). Although this type of catalyst isn't as forceful as an event, in relationship-based stories it might be very appropriate.

Giving him a wry look, Shiloh said, "I think you're forcing me to look at myself, what I want, who I am." "Good relationships always do that for both people, Darlin'. It's just a natural progression between them. It can bring out our self-awareness. It's not easy. But it's rewarding.

An experience opens many windows," an Anglo-Saxon writer once said.