Quotes About Growth

What is defeat? Nothing but education; nothing but the first step to something better.

Education is the mother of leadership.

The way to becoming who you want to be is the way of destroying who you are.

We've got something about ourselves we wish we could change, and we never knew that none is perfect.

Then she compared the work we did to the peeling of an onion: "It takes a long time, and we peel the layers slowly, incrementally, transparent layers, around and around, peeling until we get to the core," then she smiled, "and there are always tears." (141)

I wanted to curl up in her lap and stay there forever. I wanted to be her. She was raising me, cultivating me, molding me into a far better version of me than I could have ever dreamed up, let alone lived out, on my own. (149)

As human beings we do change, grow, adapt, perhaps even learn and become wiser.

Two cures for love 1. Don't see him. Don't phone or write a letter. 2. The easy way: Get to know him better.

empowerment can come by looking for opportunities and taking them when we can.

Life does not get better so long as we avoid the pain that spurs us to evolve. We do not develop emotionally, because we block out our feelings rather than bear them. We cannot become fluent in intimacy, because we keep ourselves hidden. We do not become confident, because we duck challenges rather than do the kind of work that instills self-worth. There are no shortcuts to life's bounty.

Sexual healing involves a great deal of unlearning. Along the way, we learn a new way to think, feel, and behave sexually. We need to create goals that respect the time it might take us to integrate smaller changes.

Failure is doing nothing about a problem that bothers us. If our efforts don't go as we hoped, we still learn and can take a new approach next time.

Before an apple tree is planted, no one will know how many apples will one day sprout from it. It's all about potential, and potential is hidden from all of us until we embrace it, find our purpose, plant ourselves so we can grow.

You won't get what you want, Rory Swenson, until you see what you need.

sometimes grandmothers need to do what they think is best for their grandson and practically adopted granddaughter by opening their eyes to different experiences. That's the only way you'll learn what you're capable of.

She closes her eyes. "I can't believe he peed in that potty.

We're not only two years older, we're two years wiser.

Parents are the keepers of their children's memories until they're old enough to hold their own.

505If nothing ever changed, there'd be no such thing as butterflies.

Five years is a long time to wait. But if she could do all that when she was little, she must be able to do much more now. Maybe this time, she will find my answers. Maybe this time, she will get me home.

Fake it till you make it?" "Um

We take a snapshot of our teens in their current phase and mistake it for the epic movie of their entire life.

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My feeling is that Marriage #2 is usually a huge improvement on Marriage #1—in my case, certainly, and I hope in yours—something you embark upon with much more wisdom and with your eyes open. So good luck and all happiness to you both.