Quotes About Growth

Life is about drawing and redrawing who we are and how we behave without shame or judgment.

Life takes each of us to the anvil, shapes us with fire and hammer, and some of us break while some of us become stronger, more able to face the day. Even happy.

Dedicated to the belief that we can all do better, be better, live better. We owe our best to each and every child.

You hope your seeds will take root and grow. So,

Wish I knew. Meeting you taught me to forgive myself. I don't need to hate. Not anymore.

Stop trying to make the perfect move; trust your instincts more. You've been through quite a bit in the past years. I'm sure you're as good a student as you've always been." "I can't be a student for all my time!" "We are students for all our time if we're lucky enough to know it.

I think the most important thing for you to do in the meantime is live. It is a very involving job, which takes much concentration and practice.

Taxes grow without rain.

I ask not for a lighter burden, but for broader shoulders.

As you teach, you learn.

As I got older, I really got into Tupac's poetry, his books and just learning about his life and what he was into.

You remind me of everything that followed.

The more I feel imperfect, the more I feel alive.

And yet she could not forgive herself. Even as an adult, she wished only that she could go back and change things: the ungainly things she'd worn, the insecurity she'd felt, all the innocent mistakes she made.

There is no end to education. It is not that you read a book, pass an examination, and finish with education. The whole of life, from the moment you are born to the moment you die, is a process of learning.

Real learning comes about when the competitive spirit has ceased.

What is needed, rather than running away or controlling or suppressing or any other resistance, is understanding fear; that means, watch it, learn about it, come directly into contact with it. We are to learn about fear, not how to escape from it.

Your success will depend on your enthusiasm and the time that you invest in learning.

It felt almost like a dream from long ago. I remembered another Ji-li, one who was always praised by her teachers and respected by her classmates. A Ji-li who always pushed herself to do better, achieve more.

You know when transformation happens? Right now. It's a present activity. Who is the new you? Show me the new you.

Fortunately, how we choose to be today is not predetermined by how we were yesterday...You and you alone choose moment by moment who and how you want to be in the world. I encourage you to pay attention to what is going on in your brain. Own your power and show up for your life.

I have found life to be too short to be preoccupied with pain from the past.

I must be willing to give up what I am in order to become what I will be." EINSTEIN

The most important thing she'd learned over the years was that there was no way to be a perfect mother and a million ways to be a good one.