Quotes About Growth

Acknowledging our ignorance can give us the strength to conquer and extend our limit.

When I look back on my life,I realize that every time I thought I was being rejected from something Good, I was actually being redirected to something Better.

A Change in life will not always be the Best, but a try to take a Chance for a Better life will be never a Loss in our Life.

We all want to see Sunshine after Moonlight.

she realized this was the first positive goal she'd had since before Jeremy had died. A goal that meant expansion in her life, not forced contraction.

She was mature enough to know the difference between endorphin-fueled young love and the type that developed like fine wine over time.

Sometimes, when your world blows up, you discover sparkly bits among the debris.

Out of mistakes grows wisdom.

Change wasn't easy, even when life forced change upon you.

metamorphosis

Eleanor Roosevelt once said, 'Do one thing every day that scares you.' From now on, that's what we have to do.

When I go back to my hometown, it's grown so much that I get lost. I never needed a map when I lived there, but now I couldn't get around without GPS.

The most important thing, I believe, about books for babies and very young children is that they are shared between the child and a caring adult. It is time for physical closeness and comfort, of quiet and harmony, of sharing ideas and emotions, laughing and learning together. The learning and benefit that take place are not only enjoyed by the child. Any adult who takes time to share books with small children will be rewarded, enriched, and revitalized by it, every time.

Everyone has to act out of character sometimes. It's like taking your clothes off: you feel free without your character but very naked, unprotected. Unfinished. So you get dressed again- you put on yourself-and then you know who you are.

I am not tormented, Fern responded. I am... diminished. I have always believed that your soul grows when you do something that is good and brave, a right thing, a true thing, and when you do evil- no matter what the motive- your soul is eroded. Well, my soul is less.

There is no other way, it seems, in a deciduous world. True evergreenness does not exist: the word is only another term for the ability to overlap the old with the new.

He was not yet old enough to be able to grade his own misfortunes: it is one of the maturer accomplishments.

Verbally cherishing your wife with compliments, for example, is a good thing for her, good for Sylvie to see, and a good thing for Sylvie to expect from her guy or gal when she grows up.

But people themselves alter so much, that there is something new to be observed in them for ever.

She hoped to be wise and reasonable in time; but alas! Alas! She must confess to herself that she was not wise yet.

She had been forced into prudence in her youth, she learned romance as she grew older: the natural sequel of an unnatural beginning.

And to all this she must yet add something more substantial, in the improvement of her mind by extensive reading.

No one who had ever seen Catherine Morland in her infancy, would have supposed her born to be a heroine... But from fifteen to seventeen she was in training for a heroine...

It taught me to hope, said he, as I had scarcely ever allowed myself to hope before. Mr. Darcy - Pride and Prejudice