Quotes About Growth

No experience is ever wasted. Everything has meaning.

There's no one who's ever been significantly in my life for whom I don't have a sort of tenderness because they helped to shape who I am.

Life is cut to allow for growth ... one may vigorously put on weight before one fills it out entirely.

Wisdom is one of the few things in human life that does not diminish with age.

I've learned that each mistake was probably a reflection of something that I was (or others were) doing wrong, so if I could figure out what that was, I could learn how to be more effective.

It has taken me all my life to understand it is not necessary to understand everything.

I've grown so much as a person through playing Gabrielle, much less living in New Zealand and being with all of these people that I can't imagine my life being any different.

Don't turn away from possible futures before you're certain you don't have anything to learn from them.

My interest in life comes from setting myself huge, apparently unachievable challenges and trying to rise above them.

So I've seen life as one long learning process.

Wild oats will get sown some time, and one of the arts of life is to sow them at the right time.

When I look back on my marriages, or the breakups, sure I know the pain I went through, but that's part of life and it has its own value.

I have been looking forward to this age of my life for a long time. In my twenties, I marked the days on the calendar - I was sick of playing high-school kids.

Eventually you realize that your whole life up to now has been preparation, and you begin to suspect that the rest might be preparation, too.

Life is not about discovering our talents; it is about pushing our talents to the limit and discovering our genius.

I say to my child, I will explain to you as much of life as I can, but you must remember that there is a part of life for which you are the explanation.

But how carve way i' the life that lies before, If bent on groaning ever for the past?

'Tis liberty alone that gives the flower Of fleeting life its lustre and perfume; And we are weeds without it.

Every time you acquire a new interest, even more, a new accomplishment, you increase your power of life.

It is from the level of calamities, not that of every-day life, that we learn impressive and useful lessons.

Life is the soul's nursery.

I won't miss Grissom. It was a complete life for me that's reached its end, and it's reached it in the right way, I think. So I won't miss Grissom. And I hope that the audience won't miss him either.

And so, from hour to hour, we ripe and ripe. And then, from hour to hour, we rot and rot; And thereby hangs a tale.

It's too bad that one has to conceive of sports as being the only arena where risks are, [for] all of life is risk exercise. That's the only way to live more freely, and more interestingly.