Quotes About Growth

The past does not define, you the present does.

At some point you have to stop acting as though life is happening to you and acknowledge the ways you are happening to it. Once you take responsibility for your side of the street, you grant yourself the power to improve every aspect of your life by simply acting and behaving differently.

Something horrible may have happened to you, but you always have a choice in how you respond to it. You have the "Why does bad stuff always happen to me? I'm never going to find happiness" option, and the "This sucks but I'm going to learn and evolve from it, examine what role I played in it, and ultimately it will help me become the person I'm supposed to be" option.

No one ever died from an open mind.

The older they get, the better they get when they were younger

I think I should be allowed to be only fair, or even mediocre, for a while.

Do you know why happily ever after is a lie?" Snow asked. "Because life is change.

But 'I worked hard on this' doesn't exempt you from criticism. Those harsh reviews aren't about anyone being out to get me. It's not an Authors vs. Reviewers thing. It's people taking the time to express their opinions because they care about this stuff." [ Us vs. Them vs. Grow the Hell Up (Blog post, September 1, 2013)]

On a related note, I think for many of us, the first step in becoming a good writer is to write crap. In all seriousness, none of us are born knowing how to write. Almost all of us will produce a lot of really lousy stories before we start to get good. (Not all of us will choose to publish those lousy stories, but that's a whole separate discussion...)

He was able to hear the world say "no" to him in the form of failed experiments;

My purpose here isn't to elevate your success regardless, but simply to provide you with the opportunity to do so.

Take responsibility for the bad decision, learn from it, embrace the failure, and soldier on without fear because you are only one decision away from getting back on track. But

Flowers don't worry about how they're going to bloom. They just open up and turn toward the light and that makes them beautiful.

Life opens up opportunities to you, and you either take them or you stay afraid of taking them.

A lot of good love can happen in ten years.

I don't think human beings learn anything without desperation. Desperation is a necessary ingredient to learning anything or creating anything. Period. If you ain't desperate at some point, you ain't interesting.

Life doesn't happen to you. It happens for you.

Consider the flowers, they don't try to look right They just open their petals and turn to the light

Creo que madurar no significa ser una persona seria, mucho menos aburrida, madurar es poder jugar, tontear, bromear, hacer sonreír como un niño, pero recordando nuestras responsabilidades, aceptar que ya no somos niños, pero sin olvidar que lo fuimos.

You're growing up. And rain sort of remains on the branches of a tree that will someday rule the Earth. And it's good that there is rain. It clears the month of your sorry rainbow expressions, and it clears the streets of the silent armies... so we can dance.

The person you see is the person you will be.

Nurture your nature.

Think like the person you intend to become.

A company should limit its growth based on its ability to attract enough of the right people.