Quotes About Growth

That circle became a world whose rules I lived by, and I understood the moral of mazes: sometimes you have to turn your back on your goal to get there, sometimes you're farthest away when you're closest, sometimes the only way is the long one.

And things continue to change in interesting and sometimes even auspicious ways.

Addressing our own suffering while learning not to inflict it on others is part of the work we're all here to do.

Like a life, a journey assumes a shape and a meaning that are only clear afterward, and like a journey, a life requires that you learn to let go of the plan when the actuality departs from it, to embrace what's arriving, let go of what's departing, to move forward and not get stuck. You can cover the same ground with entirely different purposes.

when everything else is gone, you can be rich in loss.

Saying that everything is fine or that it will never get any better are ways of going nowhere or of making it impossible to go anywhere. Either approach implies that there is no road out or that, if there is, you don't need to or can't go down it.

but embracing or resisting are optional, and metamorphosis inevitable.

addressing our own suffering while learning not to inflict it on others is part of the work we're all here to do.

he aprendido que cierta cantidad de dudas sobre las propias posibilidades suponen una buena herramienta para corregir, comprender, escuchar y progresar, aunque demasiadas pueden ser paralizantes y la total confianza en uno mismo produce idiotas arrogantes.

Marble lasts, but soil feeds.

I wish I knew then what I know now - and still had those thighs!

It's life, Sidda. You just climb on the beast and ride.

Every time I thought that I was put together, I realized that we're always putting ourselves together, gathering the world in, letting it sift down and form us.

How many years went by unnoticed, unembraced?

She's smiling that smile they smile before they grow bosoms.

You can't let fear of hurricanes stop your from putting seeds in the ground, even if they're going to grow tall only to be destroyed.

She understood children, and knew that they were adults handicapped by a humiliating disguise and had their adult qualities within them.

Life ought to be a struggle of desire toward adventures whose nobility will fertilize the soul.

She had treated her life as a room that had to be completely refurnished.

Once there was a boy who had to leave home...and find another.

Time flies, but if I am willing to fly with it, then I can be airborne, too.

The tears of our devastation fertilize the soil of our evolution.

I had never considered myself beautiful, but I decided that I could change my mind.

But here—in the midst of this unimaginable loss—is where I found it. The gift in the rupture. Rupture's gift is the chance to feel the pain that we could not afford to feel before. In rupture, this pain becomes ours. Because we have longed. Because we have loved.