Quotes About Growth

Life begins at eighty.

Years steal fire from the mind as vigor from the limb; and life's enchanted cup but sparkles near the brim.

Destroying is a necessary function in life. Everything has its season, and all things eventually lose their effectiveness and die.

Cancer came back into my life twice in order for me to understand something, and I guess I still wasn't getting it. And my husband wasn't getting it, either.

A sweater is like life, you get nothing out of it that you don't put into it!

Relatively few of us will find the time-or take it-to live an ever enlarging life.

Conflict is the beginning of consciousness.

Like flowers in a storm, life is full of goodbyes

My life is not separate from my music, you know? It's not like a day job that I leave and go home. It's who I am as a person and how I am trying to grow, come closer to God, be a better person.

Each man has to seek out his own special aptitude for a higher life in the midst of the humble and inevitable reality of daily existence. Than this, there can be no nobler aim in life.

What was most important was the knowledge [aspect] of the fight. I learned this early on and just told myself to "upgrade my mind." That's just what I wanted to do my whole life.

For me, I still have feelings for all of my ex-girlfriends. In different parts of my life, I would miss that person. There's something that drew me to that person, and I shared something with them.

If you would be happy all your life, plant a garden.

Life may more than once call upon you to prove Who You Are by demonstrating an aspect of Who You Are Not.

And here am I, budding among the ruins with only sorrow to bite on, as if weeping were a seed and I the earth's only furrow.

Pain never really goes away; you just elevate and get used to it by growing stronger.

So go ahead. Fall down. The world looks different from the ground.

LORD ILLINGWORTH: The soul is born old but grows young. That is the comedy of life. MRS ALLONBY: And the body is born young and grows old. That is life's tragedy.

Life should be a continual celebration, a festival of lights the whole year round. Only then can you grow up, can you blossom.

Treat your life like a game.

Seriously, however, I learn a lot about my physical life in the aging and changing of my body.

Anything we tell our kids about life is a placemarker until they figure it out for themselves.

Life is that which must overcome itself again and again

We become aware, however, that all customs, even the hardest, grow pleasanter and milder with time, and that the severest way of life may become a habit and therefore a pleasure.