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Quotes About Growth

Stars earn their brightest colors in the dark.
~ Matshona Dhliwayo
A flower blooming in a storm is stronger than a tree blossoming under a rainbow.
~ Matshona Dhliwayo
The greater the fruit a trees bears, the greater the number of stones thrown at it.
~ Matshona Dhliwayo
If you tend to a flower, it will bloom, no matter how many weeds surround it.
~ Matshona Dhliwayo
If beautiful lilies bloom in ugly waters, you too can blossom in ugly situations.
~ Matshona Dhliwayo
Seeds are proof that God sometimes packages miracles in small things.
~ Matshona Dhliwayo
The storm only comes to teach you how to skillfully sail your ship.
~ Matshona Dhliwayo
A rock that perseveres under heat and pressure soon becomes a diamond.
~ Matshona Dhliwayo
Your end can be greater than your beginning: butterflies are the greatest proof of this.
~ Matshona Dhliwayo
When the world told the caterpillar its life was over, the butterfly objected, "My life has just begun.
~ Matshona Dhliwayo
Every seed must rise through dirt to enjoy the sunshine.
~ Matshona Dhliwayo
It can't be done, " they told the caterpillar. "It can, " replied the butterfly.
~ Matshona Dhliwayo
A rose does not answer its enemies with words, but with beauty.
~ Matshona Dhliwayo
If seeds despaired in their darkest hours, they would never rise to enjoy their brightest days.
~ Matshona Dhliwayo
When people try to bury you, remind yourself you are a seed.
~ Matshona Dhliwayo
Only in hindsight can we see that out fears and worries were unwarranted, that insecurities and doubts were just illussions, or that we should have taken a risk or dared something new sooner.
~ Ellyn Spragins
Like a flower, feel yourself rise above and begin to open.
~ A.D. Posey
Every day is not a day to master but an adventure to experience.
~ A.D. Posey
Insecure people often falsify the past, in order to make the future pure.
~ Shannon L. Alder
A butterfly is a caterpillar who never gave up on his dream to fly.
~ Matshona Dhliwayo
Rainbows are birthed in storms, not in sunshine.
~ Matshona Dhliwayo
The uglier the caterpillar the lovelier the butterfly.
~ Matshona Dhliwayo
A bird that fears turbulence will never know how high it can fly.
~ Matshona Dhliwayo
Life hands us storms so we can paint rainbows.
~ Matshona Dhliwayo