Quotes About Growth

If you don't keep pushing the limits, you wake up one day and you're the "center square to block."

Spring is nature's way of saying, "Let's party!"

We walk through many doors in our lifetime. It is the accumulation of these seemingly minor passages that shape our lives. Most often, it is years after we pass over a threshold before we realize the significance of the moment. That was not the case with the books I read that summer.

Civilization is a transient sickness.

It's usually the roughest waters that teach us the most.

Our children are not our possessions, Nora. They're loaned to us to raise and to be set free. From the time he could look up, he was determined to fly high and fast.

When you screw up you own it, you make amends, you learn your lesson.

Life is thickly sown with thorns, and I know no other remedy than to pass quickly through them. The longer we dwell on our misfortunes, the greater is their power to harm us. —Voltaire

Sometimes you learn your best lessons when you add up all your losses." She

big! You're growing

Perfect families don't just happen. But they can be made. Mistakes, regret, repair.

Problem solvers, doers. Life hasn't always been kind to them, but it's made them stronger, more determined. Opportunity isn't given, it must be made.

how many episodes of being "not yourself" do you get before people figure out this is who you really are?

A girl becomes a comma like that, with wrong boy after wrong boy; she becomes a pause, something quick before the real thing.

Even our deepest disappointments will ultimately prove to be gatekeepers for future delight.

Let's just say that on my way down here, I embraced my inner klutz.

It serves no purpose to relive the worst moments of your life.

I remember being twenty-one and thinking that my personality was a solid thing, that me was set in stone, that I would always feel what I felt and believe what I believed. But now I know that me is fluid and shape-changing.

Babies did that to you: they pinned you down in the moment at precisely the same time as hurtling you into the future and hitching you back to the past.

If people really grew up, there would be no crime, no divorce, no Civil War reenactors....it's not like you think it will be, that one day you'll wake up and realize that you've got things figured out. You never figure it out. Ever. - Isabel Spellman attempting to explain growing up to her sister Rae

But the most valuable lesson he taught me was this: Every day we get older, and some of us get wiser, but there's no end to our evolution. We are all a mess of contradictions; some of our traits work for us, some against us.

I like to think I'm not stupid often, tonight proves that when I am, I do it in a big way.

Yes, she's about to embark on a new phase of her life. And yes, my role in her life may change. But as time goes on and our hearts grow more rings, we don't have to leave anyone behind. We can hold on to each other, and collect new hearts to hold, from this day forward, as long as we all shall live.

reading was the cornerstone of self-esteem, success, and even a simple pleasure that was lifelong. She