Quotes About Growth

Working on ourselves is very important, but it's also important that we don't get so caught up in analyzing ourselves that we become the one thing standing in our own way.

Belief is just the place of understanding you are at the moment. Without an open mind, you will be standing in that one spot forever.

No quieras reproducir tal cual en tu casa, la casa que dejaste al casarte. A menos que quieras comprobarlo por ti mismo, siempre tal cosa será generadora de abundantes discusiones y distanciamientos que pueden y deben evitarse. Has comenzado una nueva etapa, a escribir una nueva historia. La clave aquí es esa palabra increíble: «nueva». No lo olvides.

Hay quienes ya en su noviazgo produjeron recuerdos para olvidar, poderosos en eso de dejar marcas que dolerán por muchos años después.

Que no puedo cambiar lo que pasó, pero sí hacer que no se

Never compare, thats the key for happyness. Learn from others but dont compare yourself to them, make your way and appreciate it.

Quotes are great if they make you change and ACT

I admit that it's easier To learn than to relearn. But harder still Is to unlearn.

Alors qu'au Nord, la vie est rythmée par des saisons très contrastées ou tout se joue : les émotions comme l'économie. À chaque nouvelle saison, on a l'impression d'habiter une nouvelle ville. Elle nous entraîne dans une farandole : de nouveaux habits, un nouveau discours (on parle de chose différente d'une saison à l'autres), un nouveau sport, nouveaux débats politiques, une nouvelle cuisine. La vie est différente à chaque nouvelle saison.

Before we even understand what repentance is, we're instructed4 to name, out loud, the harm that we have caused.

It's inconvenient and it's maddening and it's frustrating and it's sometimes painfully difficult to love another person, even or especially our own child. But this love is our spiritual practice. It is our work and our task down here on this mortal coil. It is not only the oxygen that we offer to our children, it's what makes us able to breathe, ourselves.

We were lying on our backs in the foothills, watching the sky and making a list called "Never." All the things we would never do. Let's never get married. Let's never get fat. Let's never sleep with a married man. Let's never stop being students, even after we graduate. Let's never get dull-eyed and ironic. Let's never get stuck in a rut-- or trapped in a life we didn't choose. Let's never grow bitter.

She is beginning to understand that completion is not so much about reaching perfection as it is making the choice to look away from the material. What was it Khalil used to say when she couldn't finish a paper in college? Be a

And Greg,' she said, turning her face up to him, 'it's stupid and childish, and utterly ridiculous for you to be jealous of my mother! You've never seen that I can love anyone else without detracting from my love for you. I suppose because you had no family of your own, you can't see that love isn't like that - it has no limits, it just stretches to accommodate more people all the time, and it doesn't become thinner in the process, only deeper and richer...

I started dating older men, and I would fall in love with them. I thought they could teach me about life.

And where does magic come from? I think that magic's in the learning.

Therapy was the biggest romance of my life.

The summer ends and we wonder who we are And there you go, my friends, with your boxes in your car And today I passed the high school, the river, the maple tree I passed the farms that made it Through the last days of the century And I knew that I was going to learn again Again, in this less hazy light I saw the fields beyond the fields The fields beyond the fields

Sometimes life sends us lessons in ridiculous packaging.

and now I laugh at how the world changed me, and I think life chose me . . . after all.

You will become less organized as you get older.

Everyone was here to figure something out, not to get something right.

Did you ever notice that when you read the same book again and again, the book doesn't change, but you do?

That's the problem. We don't grow. We're like an old book, full of stories and also full of errors, and no one can completely understand us, even though many people try. But the problem is that we don't change. Only the people around us change.