Quotes About Growth

Parenting is the greatest of hum-a-few-bars-and-I'll-fake-it skills.

I think parenting actually makes you lose pieces of your soul again, because they go off, into your children. Or, I mean, I am so fragmented, and I'm such a spacey person.

Babies and toddlers are mostly what I've been exposed to at this point. I'm hoping parenting just gets much easier after this. It does, right?

Children make your lives a mess and set your priorities straight.

As I'm beginning to find out, parenting is no child's play, it couldSometimes determine whether couples continue to live together orgo their separate ways.

It is high time that we had a subject called Childrening, as we have one called Parenting!

The day you accept your parents the way they are, God starts opening doors of success for you, one after the other!

The most important gifts we can give our children are confidence in their ability to remake themselves again and again and the tools with which to do that job

You'll never be hurt as much by being open as you have been remaining closed.

It reminds me that we are born innocent but ignorant, and that to remedy the second of these conditions we inevitably surrender the first.

A good parent is not someone that knows how to be a good parent, but knows how to learn how to be a good parent.

The greatest challenge of parenting is in the inner work it requires: the strength and confidence in believing that we are not in control of, but the answer for our children.

Raising a child is a time of RAPID CHANGE! From the ages of 0 to 19, a PARENT can age over 30 years!

Yes it's true, you wake the child inside of you up because you're a Mom!

The people who test your patience are a blessing.. Without them, you can't practice patience.

All beginnings are somewhat strange; but we must have patience, and little by little, we shall find things, which at first were obscure, becoming clearer.

Parents test our patience more than anyone else...Being around them keeps you in check...that's what keeps you humbled.

The real test is not whether you avoid failure, because you won't. It's whether you let it harden or shame you into inaction, or whether you learn from it. . .

Good character is not formed in a week or a month. It is created little by little, day by day. Protracted and patient effort is needed to develop good character.

Everything that slows us down and forces patience, everything that sets us back into the slow circles of nature, is a help. Gardening is an instrument of grace.

Let the gentle bush dig its root deep and spread upward to split the boulder.

Be content to progress in slow steps until you have legs to run and wings with which to fly.

When I planted my pain in the field of patience it bore fruit of happiness.

I grow plants for many reasons: to please my eye or to please my soul, to challenge the elements or to challenge my patience, for novelty or for nostalgia, but mostly for the joy in seeing them grow.