Quotes About Growth

You, too, did what was easiest. Don't let that be all you do.

Whatever doesn't kill me only makes me stronger.

I feel like the journey of the past ten, twelve years was leading me to this moment. Being worthy of you.

John had no desire to move but to just be. The rain seemed to do more than water the earth tonight. It seemed to water him.

If you didn't miss where you've been, it didn't mean that much to you.

She hated endings. But if things didn't end, where would all the amazing beginnings be?

In all cases love was a strong emotion, not easily contained once it was unleashed. I realized now that love was like a blossoming flower that continually added more and more petals. But there was no end point. There was no full bloom. It went on forever. Growing, strengthening.

I was going to be a late bloomer but I was going to bloom spectacularly.

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EVERY NEW DAY IS A CHANCE TO CHANGE YOUR LIFE.

Love isn't rest. Love requires you, from time to time, to rip up your soul and replant it. To dare your lover to do the same. To muster sympathy where it seemed impossible. To be, perpetually, two kids joining hands, drawing breath, and deep diving.

To be young was to be more closely rooted to the thing that forms you,

All the talk of regret. They make you form your life around one thing, the thing you did, and you have to grow yourself from what cannot be undone: they want you to make something from nothing. They make you hate them and yourself. They make it seem that they are the world, and you've betrayed it, them, but the world is so much bigger.

People who are harder to love pose a challenge, and the challenge makes them easier to love. You're driven to love them. People who want their love easy don't really want love.

She believed that people are born every minute of their lives, and what they are in each of those minutes is what they are completely.

A man has to accept responsibility for his life, no matter how hard it gets. That's what sets him apart from animals.

Don't try to be someone you're not at the beginning of a relationship. Know who you are, accept and love yourself unconditionally -

Checklists and plans are useful tools as long as we use them as guides and not rulebooks. As we journey through life, we are supposed to change and so should our goals.

The best stories have many meanings; their meaning changes as our capacity to understand and appreciate meaning grows.

Often times of crisis are times of discovery, periods when we cannot maintain our old ways of doing things and enter into a steep learning curve. Sometimes it takes a crisis to initiate growth.

We are all here for a single purpose: to grow in wisdom and to learn to love better.

We've all got our issues, our baggage experiences, our pet peeves, our weaknesses, our harebrained ideas, our nutty hang-ups and quirks, and areas of our character that God is still working on. That's just the way it is on this side of eternity. So we have to be willing to freely give and receive grace and to give and receive help. Because when we don't, people wind up isolated, hurting, and wondering if it's worth the risk to connect with others.

Wasn't the leap from the farm or the small town to the college campus enough cultural dislocation? Wasn't college education itself enough of a voyage?

As much as I loathed pain, progress did not seem to come without it.