Quotes About Growth

When walking into a system that is new to us, it can be more effective to be naïve to what others have thought, at least at first. If you are already certain of what the solution set of probabilities looks like, you lose some of what it is to be human... You lose access to truth, because the only way you will see what is true is if it is already a match for what you thought beforehand. This is a path that therefore cannot grow your understanding.

You must grow strong. Pain must never cause pain.

You are weak and raw and broken, and that's okay. That's where real life begins. Throw yourself into that rawness., Dive into a bunch of stories about absorbing and leaning into disappointment and loss and melancholy as a way of moving through it.

Being raw means connecting to other people's trials and noticing how we all have to find our own answers; we all have to learn how to show up and breathe without grasping for something to deliver us from our own pain. When you resist your own rawness and pain, you only create more pain for yourself.

As a parent, you do have to constantly remind yourself that you are not a god, molding a human in your own image. You are merely supporting whatever your child chooses to become, even if those choices don't always thrill you.

You have to go from being a volcano that lies dormant for years and then explodes out of the blue, decimating several villages of innocent people, to becoming a volcano that lets off a slow, steady lava flow that's truly beautiful, yet predictable enough that people can come and marvel at its beauty without getting their faces singed off.

When you're at rock bottom, strap on a different pair of boots and start climbing - The New Mrs D

When is it okay to decide that you don't need to do your best? That you have built enough character for one lifetime?

A life spent working and living in a small town with people I may disagree with has taught me a lot about humility and forgiveness. And when to keep my mouth shut. Some lessons have been more painful than others, but my days and my life are richer because of them.

When I look in the mirror I see the girl I was when I was growing up, with braces, crooked teeth, a baby face and a skinny body.

As the tiniest flower in a meadow competes with all the bouquets of your love, I say to you, accept me and our love will grow us into a sun.

Be positive in all that you allow yourself to be, if you do not feel positive don't allow that self to be, instead transform into someone you want other people to be. Imagine you are like the you in heaven and heaven in others will come out of them to you.

Giah is like the vine that allows us to grape. We are not even the root but Giah has roots and chooses where they drink so that we can flower into a vineyard. But Giah is also a grape to our vine because Giah cannot be our being because however beautiful our vineyard grows our roots are too shallow to support her. That is why we need to work on our thoughts and ascend her roots to reach the wine that quenches us and sore on her through endless time.

My love grows stronger for you because my love grows stronger with you

The ground you walk on is the grounding of your soul read like a book by mother earth, a book that is drawing to a close, what will your next book be?

You are the engine to your love of another so love steadily and your pace will last until that love needs to fix you.

You are here to learn, not to love. Although you may learn not to love, which is another thing entirely.

Becoming a child again is what is impossible. That's what you have a legitimate reason to be upset over. Childhood is the most valuable thing that's taken away from you in life, if you think about it.

Childhood is the most valuable thing that's taken away from you in life, if you think about it.

Many of them, like him, would never grow old enough to understand that you only go from one hardship to another. And that the best we can hope from life is that it is a wonderful depression.

It takes courage to grow up and become who you really are. E.E. Cummings

Parenting is a long lesson in letting go.

He said I was learning to talk about my life more objectively so that it felt like a part of my life and not a part of myself.

I was going to be in therapy for a long, long time. I wasn't even a sentence yet. But I had some syllables, some new sounds. The first halves of the sentences I was accumulating were solid. I trusted them.