Quotes About Growth

In order to love who you are, you cannot hate the experiences that shaped you.

Stop trying to be less of who you. Let this time in your life cut you open and drain all of the things that are holding you back.

I had to grow to love my body. I did not have a good self-image at first. Finally it occurred to me, I'm either going to love me or hate me. And I chose to love myself. Then everything kind of sprung from there. Things that I thought weren't attractive became sexy. Confidence makes you sexy.

I learned many life lessons from watching my big sister make mistakes!

Sisters is probably the most competitive relationship within the family, but once the sisters are grown, it becomes the strongest relationship.

You meet your soulmate, and you're like, 'Well, this is it. This is the feeling of falling in love, and it's the most intense it can ever be.' Then you have a child, and it's like – it's huge!

I'm not sure that finding a husband at university made me any less of a feminist or an academic. I still soaked up Susan Faludi; I still read Doris Lessing. But I did it at the same time I met someone who I felt was my soulmate.

Most people have more than one soul mate… A soul mate can come in the form of a life partner, friend, child, or lover. A soul mate can be someone with whom you share a spiritual path, a joint work in the world, or a commitment to be parents to certain souls. It can be one whose growth you are sponsoring, such as a child.

"In any soul mate relationship, you will need to let go of the illusion that there is a perfect person waiting for you who will fulfill your every expectation and give your personality everything it desires once you are together. Do not expect your ideal soul mate to be someone who is always loving and easy to get along with, who agrees with everything you say or do, and who brings you a life of ease/comfort."

"If you've never been thrilled to the very edges of your soul by a flower in spring bloom, maybe your soul has never been in bloom."

"A little Madness in the Spring Is wholesome even for the King."

"Life isn't about finding yourself. It's about creating yourself."

"Nothing is so beautiful as spring – when weeds, in wheels, shoot long and lovely and lush; Thrush's eggs look little low heavens, and thrush through the echoing timber does so rinse and wring the ear, it strikes like lightning to hear him sing."

Once something has outlived its usefulness in one area of life, its purpose for being in existence is no longer the same. The leaf that captures a stream of sunlight, and then transfers its energy to the tree, serves one purpose in the spring and summer, and another completely different one through the fall and winter.

I feel a physical happiness when spring is coming.

In winter, I plot and plan. In spring, I move.

Spring is a true reconstructionist.

"Spring is the only revolutionary whose revolution has succeeded."

I want to do with you what spring does with cherry trees.

"No matter how long the winter, spring is sure to follow."

"Spring has come when you can put your foot on three daisies."

"Spring has returned. The Earth is like a child that knows poems."

"Begin today. Declare out loud to the universe that you are willing to let go of struggle and eager to learn through joy."

I believe in process. I believe in four seasons. I believe that winter's tough, but spring's coming. I believe that there's a growing season. And I think that you realize that in life, you grow. You get better.