Quotes About Growth

them. I looked at the place I'd come from and the place I was going, the two equidistant from me. I was too far from either, so I forced my way forward.

We have to be whole people to find whole love, even if we have to make it up for a while.

I probably wouldn't have been fearless enough to go on such a trip with so little money if I hadn't grown up without it.

was there in '63, when I was barely eighteen. But now

Hiking the PCT was the maddening effort of knitting that sweater and unraveling it over and over again.

Because in your twenties you're becoming who you're going to be and so you might as well not be an asshole.

I was not meant to be this way, to live this way, to fail this darkly.

Kennedy Meadows

There are some things you can't understand yet. Your life will be a great and continuous unfolding. It's good you've worked hard to resolve childhood issues while in your twenties, but understand that what you resolve will need to be resolved again. And again. You will come to know things that can only be known with the wisdom of age and the grace of years. Most of those things will have to do with forgiveness.

I grew up and left home for college in the Twin Cities at a school called St. Thomas,

The thought of my youthful lack of humility made me nauseous now. I had been an arrogant asshole and, in the midst of that, my mother died.

Perhaps by now I'd come far enough that I had the guts to be afraid. When

I'm not afraid, I said, calling up my old mantra to calm my mind. But it didn't feel the same as it usually did to say it. Perhaps because that wasn't entirely true anymore. Perhaps by now I'd come far enough that I had the guts to be afraid.

I'm a slow walker, but I never walk back. ABRAHAM LINCOLN Tell

But the thing about rising is we have to continue upward; the thing about going beyond is we have to keep going.

The question isn't whether you should stay or go. The question is: How would your life be transformed if you choose to love this time with all your intelligence?

These things are your becoming.

Until, that is, a tree stopped me in my path.

I felt better than I'd ever felt in all of my life, now that the trail had taught me how horrible I could feel.

was who I was: the same woman who pulsed beneath the bruise of her old life, only now I was somewhere else.

life is long, that people both change and remain the same, that every last one of us will need to fuck up and be forgiven, that we're all just walking and walking and walking and trying to find our way, that all roads lead eventually to the mountaintop.

I'd been on the PCT for a little more than a month. It seemed like a long time and also it seemed like my trip had just begun, like I was only now digging into whatever it was I was out here to do. Like I was still the woman with the hole in her heart, but the hole had gotten ever so infinitesimally smaller.

We are here to build the house.

I only felt that in spite of all the things I'd done wrong, in getting myself here, I'd done right. I