Quotes About Growth

Pain's not bad, it's good. It teaches you things. I understand that.

Sometimes good judgement comes from experience, and a lotta that comes from bad judgement.

Identity does not grow out of action until it has taken root in belonging.

Maybe piecing is continual. Maybe the glue takes time to dry. Maybe bones take time to mend. Maybe it's okay that the mess I call me is in process. Maybe it's a long, hard walk out of the crash site. Maybe the distance is different for each of us. Maybe love is bigger than my mess.

Pain is weakness leaving your body

I guess sometimes it's got to hurt before it can get better." I nodded. "Hearts are like that.

somebody gets better the more you do it. You might think an old

Sometimes good judgment comes from experience, and a lotta that comes from bad judgment.

Hope is not the result of medicine or anything that science has to offer. It is a flower that sprouts and grows when others pour water upon it.

But time does heal. Not like we think it does, not like we would—from the front—but more from the back or side or someplace we can't see it coming. It bubbles up beneath and rises all around.

I guess sometimes it's got to hurt before it can get better." I nodded. "Hearts are like that.

Sometimes good judgment comes from experience, and a lotta that comes from bad judgment." "Doesn't seem right.

Hope is not the result of medicine or anything that science has to offer. It is a flower that sprouts and grows when others pour water upon it. I think sometimes that I spent so much time worrying about how to protect and strengthen the flower—even going so far as to graft in a new stem and root system—that I forgot to simply water it.

down one giant spiral

Hatred is a commodity I couldn't afford in prison. Too expensive then. Too expensive now... I couldn't live every day with that stuff bubbling up inside me.... Gage taught me that. He found me in a bad place. Picked me up. Showed me I had a choice. I couldn't change my circumstances, but I had a lot to say about who I was in the midst of them. And who I became. Gage helped me, showed me, how to lay it down.

when I looked up, the world got a lot bigger. That's one thing Unc did from the start—he made the world a lot bigger.

It is a flower that sprouts and grows when others pour water upon it. I think sometimes that I spent so much time worrying about how to protect and strengthen the flower—even going so far as to graft in a new stem and root system—that I forgot to simply water it.

Someone speaks whose we are, and out of that we become who we are.

I'm trying to play the truth of what I am. The reason it's difficult is because I'm changing all the time.

Nella vita non raccogli ciò che semini, raccogli ciò che curi.

It's about the realization of talent and potential, and the feeling that you are able to make the most of your abilities in life.

met in a harborside convention center in Vancouver to figure out how to save the world's exploding cities from disaster. The world had little inkling of the great recession slouching on the horizon, yet the prognosis was bleak. The problem? On the one hand, cities were pumping out most of the world's pollution and 80 percent

Most people's root networks are closing in on themselves, circling more and more tightly around spouses, partners, parents and kids. These are our most important relationships, but every arborist knows that a tree with a small root-ball is more likely to fall over when the wind blows.

As knowledge increases, wonder deepens.