Quotes About Growth

Humanity's story must be one of constant change because that is one way to transmute pain into hope.

Anything can be unlearned — even in the most settled civilizations.

I wasn't afraid to fail. Something good always comes out of failure.

It's best to have failure happen early in life. It wakes up the Phoenix bird in you so you rise from the ashes.

She would always be short, but she wasn't helpless and she wasn't small. Not anymore.

some people need a hard lesson in order to learn and grow—and some people are the hard lesson.

As they walked toward the group waiting for them by the cars, Simon's hand brushed against Meg's. He hesitated for a step or two; then he took her hand, ready to release her if she growled an objection. But after a startled look, she smiled and curled her fingers around his.

The courtyard kept changing, dazzling her with the flowers that bloomed between one day and the next, with the bare branches of trees that were swollen with the buds of new leaves and then fuzzed with green. Every day, she drove a familiar road through a new place.

O dia e a noite (...) As sombras e a luz. A vida e a morte. Tudo isso faz parte do desenrolar dos dias, Morag. Tudo isso faz parte do mundo. Uma vida pode impedir outra de existir. As ervas daninhas podem espalhar-se e não deixar espaço para as outras plantas crescerem. É importante ir-se ceifando aqui e ali.

The heart's need to make its journey through life calls to us. Some hearts will back away from the journey, too fearful to leave the familiar even though it withers. Others wills leap forward and never look back, bruising the hearts left behind. Pain will force some to begin the journey. For others, love will be a beacon that keeps them moving forward.

She would have told her to respect her limitations as well as her abilities.

The moon waxes and wanes. The tides ebb and flow. The seasons turn, each in their own time. Ever changing, never changing. Of course you'll change. The dance of life spirals, remember? Even when you return to a point, you're not in the same place. The dance would have changed you, whether you'd come here or stayed home.

every living thing struggles to emerge from its cocoon or shell in order to be what it was meant to be.

There's no room in him yet for something as small as anger.

Mixed feelings and a bruised heart. Maybe that was what a first love was in the end.

There are some questions that shouldn't be asked until a person is mature enough to appreciate the answers.

For now, he and Meg were going to have the adventure of seeing a new place and having a new experience. Together. He wasn't human. Would never be human. And Meg didn't expect him to be. But feeling her hand in his, Simon thought maybe he could learn to be human enough.

Deep practice is slow, demanding and uncomfortable. To practice deeply is to live deliberately in a space that is uncomfortable but with the encouraging sense that progress can happen.

If we had no winter, the spring would not be so pleasant; if we did not sometimes taste of adversity, prosperity would not be so welcome.

Such cold mean flowers the spring puts forth betime, Before the sun hath thoroughly heat the clime.

Leave not thy nest, thy dam and sire, Fly back and sing amidst this choir.

The spring is a lively emblem of the Resurrection.

If we had no winter, the spring would not be so pleasant: if we did not sometimes taste of adversity, prosperity would not be so welcome." [ Meditations Divine and Moral ]

If we had no winter the spring would not be so pleasant.