Quotes About Growth

You realize that life is simply too short to keep being someone you're not.

Who ends up with their first real boyfriend? Yeah, no one. - Courtney

Usually the hard stuff you're forced to do makes you learn a lot.

The thing about me and books is that whichever one I'm reading always reminds me of whatever's happening in my life during that time.

Replace the old memory with a potentially crappier new one? No thank you.

People make mistakes.

And Hannah?" he says. "Don't beat yourself up too much. You know, about the whole Noah thing. Sometimes it happens.

Are you ready for the cold harsh reality about the real world? It's simple. You can't say things like, "I can't," "I don't know," or "I haven't figured it out." Because

There's not a business or a master plan as far as I'm concerned. I take it week by week, and I don't think you ever expect to be able to do the next thing.

Bull. Look, sometimes certain kinds of pain bring important lessons. Those lessons harden you, prepare you for your life and the only way to learn them, the only way to be a better, stronger and yes, harder person to survive the world outside is to learn those lessons first hand. Pain forges strength.

You know, El, you're so much more than the time you were with Bill and the attack. You took something shitty and you made a new future. Most people don't do that. They hang on forever. It's easy to stay in that pit of despair. Or let it be your excuse for not moving on.

The moral of the story isn't don't ever be afraid. Or even don't screw up. It's that screwing up isn't the end of the world.

I definitely think there are times -- setbacks -- where it's dark while you're going through it, but eventually you figure out why you had to survive that dark time.

Maybe, if God is fire, we are a grove of ponderosa pines. Without the heat and burn of God's flame, our pinecones would remain closed tight around the seeds that are needed for our thriving and growth and new life.

I am not thrilled by the idea that I am entering a vague in-between, after the intensity of conversion and before the calm wisdom of cronehood.

And I understood that I ought not ask for a prayer language until I could ask without making it the test of my entire faith.

It's not all about mountaintops. Mostly it's about training so that you'll know the mountaintop for what it is when you get there.

Life really does go on. That's what I've learned. It goes.

This was when I was a teenager and thought I could rewrite any script. Now I'm grown and know that very few of us get to become the people we thought we'd be when we were kids.

This was when I thought I could rewrite any script. Now I'm grown and know that very few of us get to become the people we thought we'd be when we were kids.

We have to be able to grow up. Our wrinkles are our medals of the passage of life. They are what we have been through and who we want to be.

I want to be a wise woman

The point of life is not to be a young girl forever, unless you're particularly vapid and stupid... There ain't nothing happening on a roll of white paper

Kids are smart. Knowledge is power. Let them figure things out. Don't turn into that grown-up who they won't come to.