Quotes About Growth

But this is my old game, isn't it? Comparing, judging, evaluating, liking and disliking, approving and disapproving. There are, I sense, inseparable strengths and weaknesses in whatever way you go, and the point ultimately is just to go.

Once people start identifying themselves or others as "permanently enlightened people," the bullshit begins.

And that is what life's all about, changes going on every minute, and you never know when something begins where is going to take you. So one thing I want to say about life is don't be scared I don't hang back, and most of all, don't waste it.

It's my belief that animals can help a human being travel to the wounds of childhood. The best part is, once you go there, you can fix things. Get on with life.

What ever was fair? What ever is? You put one foot in front of the other and you walk through all of it. And if you're lucky, like I am, on either side, you plant flowers.

It's not easy being a mother. We raise our children, given them wings to leave the nest, but we have no control where they will fly off too.

But all Austen's heroines are women who can change over time, to grow into what they're meant to be, and encourage their legion of readers to do the same.

Sometimes the best helping hand you can get is a good, firm push.

none of us make it through life without committing a faux pas that requires a serious, heartfelt, breast-beating apology. By

Joanna Campbell Slan

I now see my life, not as a slow shaping of achievment to fit my preconceived purposes, but as the gradual discovery of a purpose which I did not know.

I began to have an idea of my life, not as the slow shaping of achievement to fit my preconceived purposes, but as the gradual discovery and growth of a purpose which I did not know.

The growth of understanding follows an ascending spiral rather than a straight line.

To be another person than the one you were before means more than I understand. But

The truth that many people never understand until it is too late is that the more you try to avoid suffering, the more you suffer. — Thomas Merton

An as-yet-unpublished poet in Boulder, Colorado, once said to me that anything worth doing was worth doing badly. I may seem, in the foregoing sketchy pages, to have followed her advice rather too well.

After a while you tame your interior monsters, it's only natural. I don't mean that it ever stops; but it stops mattering.

What I learned late in life, under my rain of lava, under my kill-or-cure, unhappily, slowly, stubbornly, barely, and in really dreadful pain, was that there is one and only one way to possess that in which we are defective, therefore that which we need, therefore that which we want. Become it.

Sometimes you plant an acorn, and you plant it in good faith and instead of finding yourself with an admirable sturdy single oak tree, you're landed with a terrible mad forest that won't stop growing in all directions and develops an uncontrollable life of its own.

though we all applaud the thought of transformation, most of us don't appreciate the process that gets us there. To be transformed means we have to change, and change too often hurts.

We all want a testimony, but we'd rather skip the test that gives us one.

Take my struggles and use them for your glory. But whatever you do, please don't leave me the same.

being teachable, in essence, involves three things: being willing to listen acting on what we hear responding to discipline

We grow like what we look at, and if we spend our lives looking at our hateful selves, we shall become more and more hateful. Do we not find as a fact that self-examination, instead of making us better, always seems to make us worse?