Quotes About Growth

wishing I could do everything in my life once as practice, and then go back and do it again.

Some mistakes in life are not punishable, others teach you a lesson you never forget.

Ed," I said, "I really fucked up this time" "Nah," she reassured me, "you just got a little more growing up to do." "I don't know if i can do it," I told her. My friend laughed. "You got no choice.

I had learned a lot in three weeks. I realized that the world could do more than just judge me, it wielded tremendous power over me.

I could see the sadness in Jan's smile. "You've been through a lot. There's some age you can't count by years. You know how they cut a slice from a tree and count the rings? You got a lot of rings inside that trunk of yours. You know what? I think it's time I stopped calling you kid. You stopped being a kid a long time ago.

We're too young to close the door to anything in our lives.

I went to the window and looked out over the mounds of snow, wishing I could do everything in my life once as practice and then go back and do it again.

Until we weren't.

Really?" No one had told me that before. I'd suspected I'd always been a little cynical. "What happened to me?" I pondered. Edna laughed. "Oh, you'll be happy again. You've had a rough couple of years is all. You're just coming into your own. It takes a while. I remember being your age.

When you're feeling your worst, that's when you get to know yourself the best.

An optimistic gardener is one who believes that whatever goes down must come up.

Leslie Hulet Stahl

If you don't pray often, you won't gain a love for praying. Prayer is work, and therefore it is not very appealing to our natural sensibilities. But the simple rule for prayer is this: Begin praying and your taste for prayer will increase. The more you pray, the more you will acquire the desire for prayer, the energy for prayer, and the sense of purpose in prayer.

She taught me this above all else: things which don't shift and grow are dead things. They are things the witchery people want. Witchery works to scare people, to make them fear growth. But it has always been necessary, and more than ever now, it is. Otherwise we won't make it. We won't survive. That's what the witchery is counting on: that we will cling to the ceremonies the way they were, and then their power will triumph, and the people will be no more.

Am I turning my back on myself, by getting ahead of myself?

Are you old enough to be young again?

Convert limitations into limits; limits into boundaries; boundaries into borders; and borders into passageways.

Dive into newness and discover another you.

Past all the silliness of youth -- with its insecurities, cheap thrills, and ill-fitting identities -- lies the snug comfort of age.

Suffering toughens the spirit and tenderizes the soul.

From Christ's perspective, success isn't measured by how much we do, how much we earn, or how much we have, but by how well we love and what kind of person we're becoming in the midst of life's activities.

He needs a wife who will love him enough to tell him the truth and to respectfully challenge his selfishness, his self-absorption, and his self-deception.

There are times you must risk unraveling the life you have in order to create the life God wants for you.

Who we are and who we are becoming is formed as much, if not more, by our unique way of responding.