Quotes About Growth

When you give up struggle, there's a kind of love.

Memory blurs, that's the point. If memory didn't blur you wouldn't have the fool's courage to do things again, again, again that tear you apart.

The gardener is the quintessential optimist: not only does he believe that the future will bear out the fruits of his efforts, he believes in the future.

Truths are the last thing you learn about your family. By the time you learn, you're no longer their child.

You people who have survived childhood don't remeber any longer what it was like. You think children are whole, uncomplicated creatures, and if you split them in two with a handy axe there would be all one substance inside, hard candy. But it isn't hard candy so much as a hopeless seething lava of all kinds of things, a turmoil, a mess. And once the child starts thinking about this mess he begins to disintegrate as a child and turns into something else--an adult, an animal.

First marriage, and nothing so sweet! You don't know it at the time.

You can think of your life as the mistakes you made that catch up with you finally.

so too, her glazed ceramics and her macramé are interchangeable with those executed by her women friends in the area, who take courses at the Mill Brook Valley Arts Co-op and whose houses are gradually filling with their creations, like ships gradually sinking beneath the weight of ever-more cargo.

He said no break is permanent. Like a bone that heals crooked, still it will heal.

happened to you! what happened

In marriage, one plus one is more than the sum of two. But sometimes in a marriage, one plus one is less than the sum of two.

the terrible intimacy of pregnancy

Marriage, family. What else is there? You had to grow up. You had to accept it.

If you want a life. Different from your parents.

A mí me resultaba fascinante oír a mi hermano mayor hablando a nuestro padre como un niño, como yo, que tenía diez años. Se me ocurrió una cosa: «¿Nunca nos hacemos mayores?». Por alguna extraña razón, eso me consolaba.

It's not only children who grow. Parents do too. As much as we watch to see what our children do with their lives, they are watching us to see what we do with ours. I can't tell my children to reach for the sun. All I can do is reach for it, myself.

Ten years from now, her mother might not even recognize her. Already she was different, but the day would come when she'd be this person her mother had never seen. There would be other people - someone like Carolyn or Alan, or even Violet - who had known her longer than her mother ever did.

Trust and faith bring joy to life and help relationships grow to their maximum potential.

Here's one of my favorite statements: We are never going to enjoy stability, we are never going to enjoy spiritual maturity until we learn how to do what's right when it feels wrong, and every time you do what's right by a decision of your will using discipline and self control to go beyond how you feel, the more painful it is in your flesh, the more you're growing spiritually at that particular moment.

There are no drive-thru breakthroughs. Breakthroughs take time.

We don't want to survive. We want to be healed.

Where there is a rotten root, there will always be rotten fruit. We must be rooted in Jesus Christ.

There are two kinds of pain: the pain of change and the pain of never changing and remaining the same.

No matter how much we know in any area there are always new things to learn and things we have previously learned that we need to be refreshed in.