Quotes About Growth

My life is a stairway to heaven, not a 'decline into decrepitude.

It's never too late – never too late to start over, never too late to be happy.

Sometimes, he thought, one should take a long, hard look at old friends. Like old clothes in a cupboard, there comes the moment to examine for moth. Perhaps throw them out and forget them. Yes.

Children—and adults—who have a growth mindset are much more successful than those who have a fixed mindset about themselves and the world.

Trees are living beings. And they have their own personalities... There are the young, eager saplings, all striving with each other... If you put your cheek against one of those, you almost sense the sap rising and the energy.

Any little thing that brings us back into communion with the natural world and the spiritual power that permeates all life will help us to move a little further along the path of human moral and spiritual evolution.

And so began one of the most exciting periods of my life, the time of discovery.

Children—and adults—who have a growth mindset are much more successful than those who have a fixed mindset about themselves and the world. But

In other words, what we nurture and encourage wins.

The environment we create will determine what prevails. In other words, what we nurture and encourage wins.

One of the most important things about roots is that they hold the soil in place.

He said that history takes two steps forward and one step back.

There are over seven billion of us today

My hope for the future is that we learn wisdom again.

uncomfortable.

It doesn't matter how many years go by, how grown-up we think we are, how much we presume we have changed or evolved, when we are back in our childhood homes, we become exactly who we have always been.

My mother grieved appropriately for a woman who had lost her husband of almost thirty years so tragically, and then, after six months, she blossomed.

I thought my entire life was coming apart, but I think I just realized that sometimes the thing you think is going to ruin your life is the thing that saves you.

Shock doesn't hit all at once. I have learned.

Forever feels a long time when you're eighteen. When you're away from home for the first time in your life, when you forge instant friendships that are so strong they are destined, surely, to be with you until the bitter end.

sometimes, in life, you have to make things happen. That you can change your life if you're willing to let go of the old and actively look for the new. That even if you're on the right track you'll get run over if you just sit there.

Thoroughly unprepared, we take the step into the afternoon of life. Worse still, we take this step with the false presupposition that our truths and ideals will serve us as hitherto. But we cannot live the afternoon of life according to the program of life's morning, for what was great in the morning will be little at evening, and what in the morning was true, at evening will have become a lie'.

If we keep doing what we've been doing, we will get what we have always got, and that isn't enough. I want something different for my life.

The fact is that blaming doesn't get you anywhere. It keeps you stuck. Blaming stops you from moving on with your life.