Quotes About Growth

I don't believe one grows older. I think that what happens early on in life is that at a certain age one stands still and stagnates.

Suffering is but another name for the teaching of experience, which is the parent of instruction and the schoolmaster of life.

Never too late to learn some embarrassingly basic, stupidly obvious things about oneself.

The primary benefit of practicing any art, whether well or badly, is that it enables one's soul to grow.

I'm not a prophet. I'm not a teacher. I have no degrees. My degree is from the University of Life.

In fact the experience at Oxford has really helped me later in life.

The funny guy doesn't get the girl until later in life. High school, college, everyone still wants the brooding, dangerous guy you shouldn't have.

Redemption just means you just make a change in your life and you try to do right, versus what you were doing, which was wrong.

No one's a virgin, life screws us all!

I'm ready and open to meeting the person that hopefully I'll share my life with. It takes a long time to get to that place.

I learned more about acting from George Stevens in a few months than I had in my entire life up until then

A hard life improves the vision.

Time ripens the substance of a life as the seasons mellow and perfect its fruits. The best apples fall latest and keep longest.

Every individual has the potentiality to become enlightened in the course of this life or later existences

The risk it takes to remain tight inside the bud is more painful than the risk it takes to blossom. We don't see things as they are, we see them as we are.

Pleasant experiences make life delightful. Painful experiences lead to growth.

I'm still learning, but I can see there are decisions in life that are going to be very challenging and it's always better to get through them, always.

However much your life may have become an expression of creativity, of generosity of spirit, there's always the further possibility of more or just expressing it in different ways.

Life is expressed in a perpetual sequence of changes. The birth of the child is the death of the baby, just as the birth of the adolescent is the death of the child.

My life so far has been a long series of things I wasn't ready for.

At any moment, I could start being a better person...but which moment should I choose?

In the moment of our creation we receive the stamp of our individuality; and much of life is spent in rubbing off or defacing the impression.

Enjoy the journey of life and not just the endgame.

If you mess up, it's not your parents' fault, so don't whine about your mistakes, learn from them.