Quotes About Growth

Writers are made -- forged, really, in a kiln of their own madness and insecurities -- over the course of many, many moons.

Grade school – elementary and up – is like being dropped in a dunk tank filled with starving piranha.   And they never get full.

Conflict is the food that feeds the reader. It's a spicy hell-broth that nourishes.

Your first draft can and should look like a fucking warzone. That's okay. Don't sweat it, because you survived. Put differently, that first draft of yours has permission to suck. Go forth and care not.

Failure has to be illuminating: an instruction manual written in scar tissue.

Good story thrives on protagonists in pain.

Creative agitation can serve you well. Embrace it. Look into that dark hole for answers, not fear.

Furthermore … WE NEED TO UNDERSTAND THE EMOTIONAL JOURNEY

awakening. Listen, it's like the Death card in the Tarot. Movies always make it seem like the Death card is a bad thing—a literal death—but no, it's a metaphorical death, a figurative one, and that means transformation, transition, and maybe that's where we are now, as people, as humans.

Let every tale be a cage match between you and something that scares you.

The first force is evolution. Humanity changing, growing, becoming better than it was. The second force is ruination. Humanity making its best effort to demonstrate its worst tendencies. A march toward self-destruction.

By now, the flock—the walkers themselves—numbered 325. With them came the shepherds, over a hundred.

Books: our unfailing companions

If no use is made of the labours of past ages, the world must remain always in the infancy of knowledge.

Omnium Rerum Principia Parva Sunt – 'The beginnings of all things are small

The beginnings of all things are small.

As we allow God to polish us and our armor, we will grow to become vessels of honor in the house of the Lord. We will look back and see this as a time of great learning and blessing.

Sometimes you have to lose a lot of Q-tips before you realize you have a hole in your head. Colors Insulting To Nature

A problem is a way of creating a future. When plants grow and evolve they do so by way of problems, developing features to avoid predators, to maximise light or to retain moisture.

Everybody does stupid things in life. Some of us more than others. You think you're going to get away with it. Or one or both of you just stop thinking. But it happens. And when it does, you can keep drinking it like poison, or you can put it behind you and go make the most of the rest of your life.

Time flies. Time flies faster every year. Time flies whether you're having fun or not, whether you're living your life big or small, whether you surround yourself with fear or laughter.

But if you truly want to reinvent your life, you're going to have to learn to say yes. Even if it feels selfish. Or scary.

A vida e curta demais para cometer o mesmo erro duas vezes

I thought I could get to greatness, to my greatness, by plugging on, cleaning up each mess as it came, the way you're taught to eat your greens before you have dessert.