Quotes About Growth

I think the key is that nothing's ever perfect and you've got to be able to go with change. It's a lot easier said then done because I especially like things very structured and I don't like change, but it's part of life; you've got to just deal with it.

What does it really mean to have something change in you very late in your life, after you've structured your life in a different way? What does it mean to be someone who has had a history of sometimes reckless living, and then to really want to change yourself?

Ballet was so structured. I'd been craving something that could guide me.

You can't manage the creative process on a quarterly basis. The way we're structured has really helped us grow.

We bless the organized church structures and their meetings. But if there are 10,000 others that meet outside of these ecclesiastical structures, that's wonderful, too. The kingdom of God moves forward in lots and lots of ways.

The best wisdom comes from the hardest struggle.

Mankind advances only through struggle.

My biggest fear is becoming a parody of myself. That's something I struggle with.

My parents were electrical engineers, immigrants from China, and we were always just in a state of struggle, building our life.

I went through a struggle, and I really needed to get myself together and connect with my purpose, which is music.

Some struggle is healthy. If you can embrace it rather than be angry, you can use it as your pilot light.

The struggle I went through has value.

Getting older and adjusting to all the things that biologically happen to you is not easy to do and is a constant struggle and adjustment.

A lot of people struggle in their younger years, and I think people can relate to that.

Without struggle, no progress and no result. Every breaking of habit produces a change in the machine.

When I was in my 20s and kind of going through my own coming out process, I feared that I would lose my family. I feared that I would grow old alone. And that was a real part of my struggle.

I enjoy flawed heroes that actually struggle, you know, with their own sort of path and are not really aware that they reach that level of being a hero.

I remember, for the first time, sitting down and consuming books in a matter of hours. This was such a new experience for me because reading, up until that point, had been such a struggle and source of stress. I think I just needed to find the right kind of stories with which I could identify.

In the past I'd always felt like 'the girl' in the show or the movie. On 'Friday Night Lights' there were a bunch of girls, and I was the woman. Initially there was a little struggle with my identity around that. But now there's a sense of ease.

I've learned a lot since I was a new mother. My approach to struggle and shame now is to talk to yourself like you'd talk to someone you love and reach out to tell your story.

I argue that the Talmud is about the constant struggle to understand.

It may be that the most interesting American struggle is the struggle to set oneself free from the limits one is born to, and then to learn something of the value of those limits.

Yes, I'm very close to my family. And being that close to your family, I think you also struggle with how to become your own person.

It's always a struggle growing up in Akron.