Quotes About Growth

You learn over lifetimes. You keep try. You will find middle way to be. This life. Next. You find your way.

Easy is nice, but it's not as good as getting to be who who are or stand up for what you believe in. Easy is nice but I wonder how often it leads to fulfilling work or partnership or being.

Annus Mirabilis." The year of wonders.

Dispelling fear. Taming what was scary not by hiding it, not by blocking it or burying it, not by keeping it secret, but

P]aper's just as permanent once you send it out into the world. It seems like it closes the story, settles on one ending eliminating infinite possibilities, fixes it in place, in voice, but no, it does the opposite. You write it down so others can read it, and then it can grow. You nail it to a moment so it can pass through time.

Having children, helping people, making art, inventing anything, leading the way, tackling the world's problems, overcoming your own. I don't know. Not much of what I value in our lives is easy.

Virtue leads straight to transformation; transformation leads instantly to happily ever after.

Because you know what's even better than happy endings?" "What?" "Happy middles." "You think?" "All the happy with none of the finality. All the happy with room enough to grow. What could be better than that?" "For a while," said Rosie. "A while's a long time," said Penn.

Having children, helping people, making art, inventing anything, leading the way, tackling the world's problems, overcoming your own. I don't know. Not much of what I value in our lives is easy. But there's not much of it I'd trade for easy either, I don't think.

Easy is nice, but I wonder how often it leads to fulfilling work or partnership or being.

All life. You are never finish, never done. Never become, always becoming. You know? Life is change so is always okay you are not there yet.

Mistake good because you learn, you fix.

Rosie knew this moment from raising four other children to this point already, the one where suddenly your kids know more than you do about something they've discovered all on their own, something real and important not just cartoons or video games. Amazing was exactly what it was." Chap. "Hedge Enemies

Because you know what's even better than happy endings?" "What?" "Happy middles.

If you look closer, if you go slowly, there can be story even without progress or plot, life in small change, like Dante and Beatrice, like fish swimming hard against the current just to stay where they are. They're not getting anywhere, neither Dante nor the fish, but that doesn't mean there isn't effort, growth, triumph, and beautiful poetry. Trust me, stasis is challenging. And challenge is story.

She knew that what came out of kids was often terrifying, but its coming out, rather than staying inside, was the happy ending.

Who wants to recover? It took me years to get that tiny. I wasn't sick; I was strong.

There is no magic cure, no making it all go away forever. There are only small steps upward; an easier day, an unexpected laugh, a mirror that doesn't matter anymore.

There is no magic cure, no making it all go away forever. There are only small steps upward; an easier day, an unexpected laugh, a mirror that doesn't matter anymore.

Find a way to learn something from every disappointment.

In uncharted territory, we need new thinking, new ways of processing intense emotions, and new behavioral choices.

Patience allows you to shift attention in a positive way.

There is a price for forgetting and remembering. Forgetting as a form of escape deprives us of what the Five Gifts can offer––humility, patience, empathy, forgiveness, and growth.

Heading into any one-year anniversary, our emotional climate shifts. We enter a new season of the heart.