Quotes About Growth

Test your limits. Learn what you can endure.

A trick to play in your mind when your troubled. You think of yourself as a tree, with all the rings inside. And every ring is someone you care about, or a place you've been. You carry them with you wherever you go.

The first twenty-three years of my life are the ones that shaped me, and the fact

Christina Baker Kline

You can live for a long time inside the shell you were born in. But one day it'll become too small." "Then

There are many ways to be crippled, I've learned over the years, many forms of paralysis.)

Molly learned long ago that a lot of the heartbreak and betrayal that other people fear their entire lives, she has already faced. Father dead. Mother off the deep end. Shuttled around and rejected time and time again. And still she breathes and sleeps and grows taller. She wakes up every morning and puts on clothes. So when she says it's okay, what she means is that she knows she can survive just about anything. And

And even if she loses the charms, she thinks, they'll always be a part of her. The things that matter stay with you, seep into your skin.

What do you choose to take with you? What did you leave behind? What insights did you gain?

Christina Baker Kline

Mr. Grote shows me how he grows wild rice in the stream and collects the seeds. The rice is nutty and brown. He plants the seeds after harvest in late summer for the crop the following year. It's an annual plant, he explains, which means that it dies in the autumn.

I count a hundred steps and start again. My da used to say it's good to test your limits now and then, learn what the body is capable of, what you can endure. He said this when we were in the throes of sickness on the Agnes Pauline, and again in the bitter first winter in New York, when four of us, including Mam, came down with pneumonia. Test your limits. Learn what you can endure. I am doing that.

Maybe all of us could live several lives, giving some things up and gaining others, assembling different versions of contentment.

Christina Baker Kline

Maybe it doesn't matter how much gets done. Maybe the value is in the process—in

My own awakening feels as momentous. I too am blanketed, my harsh edges obscured and transformed.

Test your limits. Learn what you can endure. I am doing that. As

The poet Swinburne said that spring begins 'blossom by blossom.

I now understand that no learning that makes a difference to my soul's evolutionary journey will come from the outside. Everything I need is inside….

Most males do not mature, they simply grow taller.

Spring is when life's alive in everything.

Oh roses for the flush of youth,And laurel for the perfect prime;But pluck an ivy branch for meGrown old before my time.

My advice to someone to follow in my footsteps is to have patience. I've been doing this for twelve years.

You can't put a Band-Aid on every boo-boo you've made some just need time to heal...