Quotes About Growth

My sister taught me how to write my name when I was about three. I remember writing my whole name: Jacqueline Amanda Woodson. I just loved the power of that, of being able to put a letter on the page and that letter meaning something.

I want to keep continuously going through all the pages in the book of being an actor.

I never really paid attention to sales until the second record.

The most fun is getting paid to learn things.

I've only half-admitted I'm a professional. I know I am, I've paid my dues, but one of the things I could do better when I'm acting is to really be rigorous and to think I know how to do it. To use my brain.

There's beauty in pain, and everyone experiences it - and it's a lesson.

It's sad, something coming to an end. It cracks you open, in a way - cracks you open to feeling. When you try to avoid the pain, it creates greater pain.

Life comes with pain.

Nothing can make you more humble than pain.

When you try to avoid the pain, it creates greater pain.

We all have to face pain, and pain makes us grow.

I think people sleepwalk through their lives, and for me, I wanted to embrace everything. And that meant the agonizing pain and the transcendence, and you can't have one without the other.

If you can go through life without experiencing pain you probably haven't been born yet.

I think it's really cool to embrace the pain of something that may have hurt you and be able to express it through music.

Our pain is a part of who we authentically are.

I don't know if we ever fully get over the pain of watching a child trying to find their way through a world that too often doesn't understand.

Russia has gone through eight years of continuing economic pain.

I was taught that pain is bad.

I believe that everybody comes from pain and a certain amount of dysfunction.

Change and growth is so painful. But it's so necessary for us to evolve.

The more painful it is, tragically, the more you do learn, though, that's the good part.

Work is a salvation. Work is how you connect with who you are, no matter how painful it might be.

My parents' divorce was very difficult. Divorce is essentially incredibly painful, but it's also an essential part of life.

Even though it has been very painful, lots of opportunities have come forward journalistically. Once all of this blows over, I think it might actually help that I have gotten this attention.