Quotes About Growth

Up to this point your life has pretty much sucked. You're not responsible for that. But you are responsible for what happens from here on.

Aidan to Jude: What's wrong with running away if where you were didn't suit you? Doesn't it follow you're funning to something else? Something that does suit you?

The old goes into making us what we are, or what we're hell-bent on not being.

Men are boys in bigger packages.

Studies show adolescent males often make decisions based on sex. Many fail to grow out of it.

Make a life with me, one that comes from love, one that I can watch grow in you. Only a fool would believe that what comes from what we have together would be anything but beautiful.

Even a good place gets to be a rut, especially if you're standing in it alone... Alone and lonely have the same root.

Love can kick your ass.

Potholes and bumps? Welcome to the world. Every road gas them. They're there to be navigated, avoided, driven over, or through to the other side. Don't keep driving into the pothole.

Second chances are scarier than first chances, because the second time you know how much you're risking.

You didn't hurt me, the situation did. And now that I know why I felt that way, it won't hurt.

Mothers do, every day. It's funny, Bo, how a woman can bring two children into the world, raise them up the same way—the same rules and values, indulgences and disciplines. And still two separate people come out of it all.

He had realised that most vital of humanities. he had touched lives. And he had raised three boys that no one had wanted into men.

We're not blank slates. What we've done, what we've survived all go into us.

It's life, and it's messy, and it breaks down.

Planting a flower's like opening a book, because either way you're starting something. And your garden's your library.

Who I am now is who I was before. The three years between, they were the aberration. You wouldn't recognize the person I became during that lost time. I barely do.

She stared at him. You'd be willing to change your life so dramatically? Ray and Stella Quinn changed my life.

The man who loses the boy is a sad and serious man.

Coming from something doesn't make it what you are.

Quiero lo que somos cuando estamos juntos. Amo lo que creo que podríamos llegar a ser.

Continuity, he thought, wasn't the same as stagnation.

Tragedy doesn't necessarily change us. More often, I think, it just brings out more of who we are—or were—all along.

I can't believe what a state I got myself into over this. Everyone was right. They said it would just happen, and it did. I guess the best things do.