Quotes About Growth

Je moet dingen nooit herhalen. Dat zou een verkeerd einde zijn.

seed is a promise, Corinne, a guarantee. Plant it and watch it grow.

I is for me. I cannot believe how much I have fucked up in love. At least, physically. I don't believe I have mentally. For some weird reason, all of my tiny horrors have been liveable. I have not died. In fact, life has become better. Through age and experience there has come realisation: life is worth living.

I'm still that little girl who lisped and sat in the back of the car and threw vegetables at the back of her head when we drove home from the market. That never goes.

There are flowers growing, and saplings are striving to push up past the ashes. There is life amid death. Hope in the midst of adversity.

It would be nice if we could snap our fingers and become better people instantly," Mother sounded sympathetic. "Unfortunately, change is a journey we must take one step at a time. Give it over to God and rest in Him.

Faith has to be grown. It doesn't just blossom overnight. Life gives you all sorts of ups and downs, and usually those issues are small enough that your faith gets tested and stretched and hopefully produces even more faith.

changes to come.

But this one thing I do, forgetting those things which are behind, and reaching forth unto those things which are before.

bottoming out for cotton. But these things do tend to

that walking with Jesus is a lifelong journey. You don't see or understand everything at once. It comes in steps along the way.

For example, all human beings grow up believing that life should turn out one way or another. This drives you, as an individual, to constantly compare your current reality with the ideal in your mind of how life "should" turn out—which in turn affects a startling amount of what you do.

You shift the way you are being by creating a new context from which to relate to reality.

By learning to uncover the concealed aspects of your current conversations and learning to engage in different types of new conversation, you can alter the way you are being, which, in turn, alters what's possible.

TRANSFORMATION is a function of altering the way you are being—to create something that is currently not possible in your reality.

What are you interested in accomplishing that requires you to reinvent yourself to accomplish it? What would you be committed to accomplishing—if only it were possible? What's worth accomplishing—so much so that it would be worth re-inventing your whole self?

For as long as your Winning Strategy is your ground of being, it will never occur to you to take any actions beyond it.

You probably already know what your persistent, unwanted conditions are. (A clue is: They are the things that you complain the most about.)

In this situation, at this moment, what's not possible for me?

We move in and out of rooms, leaving Our dust, our voices pooled on sills. We hurry from door to door in a downpour Of days. Old trees inch up, their trunks thick With new rings. All that we see grows Into the ground. And all we live blind to Leans its deathless heft to our ears and sings.

What does living do to any of us?

The hardest thing was learning to write. I was 13, and the only writing I had done was for Social Studies. It consisted of copying passages right out of the encyclopedia.

The view reminded of the Haitain proverb "Beyond mountains there are mountains" which meant that when you'd solved one problem, you couldn't rest because you had to go on and solve the next.

Time wounds all heals.