Quotes About Growth

I have a son, and I was married for twenty years, and I got divorced, and there's a new woman in my life, and my son is 18, and I'm interested to see how he's growing.

Try looking at life as a beautifully well-organized dynamic.

Think of the funniest story from your life. Chances are, it was something awful at the time.

I feel like life is so special and so great, every year I feel like I learn more, and I grow, and I think it's exciting to grow up.

It's unbecoming," she agreed. "A perfect word for my new life. Unbecoming. I who have always been unbecoming am becoming un.

Life, forever dying to be born afresh, forever young and eager, will presently stand upon this Earth as upon a footstool, and stretch out its realm amidst the stars.

Watch for big problems. They disguise big opportunities.

An empowering perspective gives birth to an empowered life.

During really difficult times in my life when I start questioning why I am struggling with something, I often turn to books to understand myself better.

There is no such thing as a bed of roses all your life.

Few of us go through life without taking part in some kind of rite of passage.

Many a humble soul will be amazed to find that the seed it sowed in weakness, in the dust of daily life, has blossomed into immortal flowers under the eye of the Lord.

Life consists not simply in what heredity and environment do to us, but in what we make out of what they do to us

The nightingale appear'd the first, And as her melody she sang, The apple into blossom burst, To life the grass and violets sprang.

My friends have made the story of my life.

How could youths better learn to live than by at once trying the experiment of living?

It's part of life to have obstacles. It's about overcoming obstacles; that's the key to happiness.

The end of reading is not more books but more life.

I am always a beginner. I only try to include different parts of life; the pastoral, the tragic, et cetera.

To explore different parts of yourself and different emotional lives... not to hide from who you are but to actually explore who you are.

I have, my whole life, been healing the girl inside, the part of me that struggles about being a female in the world. That's why I write about the things I write about.

The day you change your responses is the day your life will begin to get better.

Much of spiritual life is self-acceptance, maybe all of it.

To live life is to make a succession of errors. Understanding this can bring us great ease and forgiveness for ourselves and others.