Quotes About Growth

We throw ourselves into the journey and when it's done, even while having learned that all experience involves the loss of something beloved, what is ledt in the residue of memory is love.

I'm self-taught. I didn't just become a man, it was a decision.

In fact, you could say that I became a poet by renouncing poetry.

Many kids, it seemed, would find out that their parents were flawed, messed-up people later in life, and I didn't appreciate getting to know it all so strong and early.

It seemed to happen in springs, the revealing of things.

When the light at Vernon turned green, we stepped into the street and George grabbed my hand and the ghosts of our younger selves crossed with us.

My lover is experiencing reverse evolution.

Where we once had fear we now have courage, because we have been given knowledge.

How fast the time goes. That's what people were always telling us, at least; the strangers' hands on our bellies, saying how careful we must be to enjoy the time. How it'll all be over in a blink of an eye. How before we know it, they'll be walking, talking, leaving us.

Adversity isn't an obstacle that we need to get around in order to resume living our life. It's part of our life. I think of it like my shadow — sometimes I see a lot of it, sometimes there's very little, but it's always with me.

And when it eats—what a wild mess—when it gathers a tangle of bloodworms into its mouth, you will understand how a galaxy first learns to spin in the dark, and how it begins to grow and grow.

Mommy, you are like a lady cardinal because you are brown. Why do you have better camouflage than daddy? Right now, I have medium camouflage. Will I be brown or white when I grow up? Why do some white people not like brown people? Don't worry, Mommy, you can hide in the forest from those bad people. You have good camouflage. Can I have good camouflage even though I'm half and half?

Religion is the Kindergarten to Spirituality. One cannot Realize God without Religion.

Marriage isn't a carnival ride.

Wounds turn into scars and scars make you tough.

doesn't teach. Winning rewards. You can only really learn from failure. And in the end, after you have taken a prolonged physical and psychological beating that would destroy a lesser man or woman, you will understand that success is not the absence of failure, but rather the presence of not quitting when you do fail. To win, you need to fail, and fail hard.

I was still very much a kid but, suddenly, I had the body of a teenager. This is like waking up one day and finding out that your golden retriever puppy shoots lasers from its adorable puppy eyes. Someone is bound to get hurt.

Stark and egregious errors, the truly epic failures, forge character. They burnish your edges and make you the person you are.

when life shovels shit on you, shrug it off, tread it in, and you will always stand higher in life.

When we practice only when we're feeling good, how are we going to get anywhere like that?

Your doubts about your teacher can help you. Take from your teacher what is good, and be aware of your own practice. Wisdom is yourself to watch and develop.

We can develop wisdom through the conditions and the experiences that we have in this life—which are not guaranteed always to be the best.

In every character I play, I try to imbibe something. Every film is a learning process for me.

A. W. Tozer once wrote, "Do you know who gives me the most trouble? Do you know who I pray for the most in my pastoral work? Just myself."28