Quotes About Growth

When people ask me what really changed my life, I tell them that absolutely the most important thing was changing what I demanded on myself.

We can all reduce our life to a description that makes people feel sorry for ourselves or we can expand our life to a dimension where we connect and give to others.

The quality of my life was the quality of my questions.

Every place you land in life has a reason and a lesson.

The gospel doesn't just ignite the Christian life but it keeps Christians growing and growing every day. There's no reason to move beyond the gospel. There's only movement more into it.

Everybody on YouTube starts with zero subscribers. You think of everyone you look up to or have watched for years or whatever, they may seem like this is their life now, but it wasn't always that.

Life sweeps you up. Some people resist a lot. I probably haven't resisted very much.

There are so many ebbs and flows in life, but when you're raising small children, your family means everything.

We've learned how to lengthen life, but we don't know how to deepen it.

The good, the bad, that's just life. Let it go. There's no need to fret about the past. The question is: who are you going to share it with tomorrow?

For the complete life, the perfect pattern includes old age as well as youth and maturity.

The object of all life is development; and everything that lives has an inalienable right to all the development it is capable of attaining

Life is the elimination of what is dead.

I think I write fiction for the opportunity to get beyond the limits of my own life.

Life begins at age forty.

Everything that looks to the future elevates human nature; for never is life so low or so little as when occupied with the present.

I grew up in the church and had religion in my life for a long time. I'm not really a church goer, but I definitely have a hunger for a spiritual connection to the world and for my soul to be healed.

If you're not busy being born, you're busy dying.

Maybe the problem is that I was never taught to enjoy failure as an opportunity.

One of the hardest and truest things a grown-up learns is that sometimes it's not okay.

I failed at the biggest things there are in life. I failed in my health, I failed in my marriage, I failed in everything, and I've picked myself up and gone on.

Instead of looking at life as a narrowing funnel, we can see it ever widening to choose the things we want to do, to take the wisdom we've learned and create something.

How do poems grow? They grow out of your life.

It's nice sometimes to be the river rather than the rock.