Quotes About Growth

The great end of education is to discipline rather than to furnish the mind to train it to the use of its own powers, rather than fill it with the accumulation of others.

He that never changes his opinions, never corrects his mistakes, will never be wiser on the morrow than he is today.

The young, he says, confuse desire with love, and they end up hurting everyone around them.

Quietly, unobtrusively and extremely fitfully, something in my mind began to assert itself, to question things and refuse to be brainwashed, bringing me to this time when I can set down this story. It was a long and painful process for me, that process of expansion.

I yearn for flowers that bend with the wind and rain.

We fail to see that recognizing, admitting, and clearly understanding the patterns we experience in our own lives can have a transformative effect on the way we function in the world and the way we relate to others.

my first book, Women of Wisdom.

Suffering does amazing things to people, they become very different in a very short period of time, in many cases, they get a lot wiser an alot braver and become very much more worth listening to.

Just so you know," Rebecca says, staring at nothing. "The confusion doesn't go away. But that doesn't have to be a bad thing. You just have to figure out how to take that confusion, and turn it into something beautiful.

Everyone makes mistakes! It is a very good idea that everyone makes mistakes once in a while!!!!!!!!!

The other dragonets were his own size (nearly), and they didn't cheat (well, most of the time).

Idiotic hopeful former self

But I didn't see why Mother needed another egg when she had me.

Don't we lose something when everything is done for us?

Starflight had been terrified plenty of times since leaving the caves where he grew up.

Clay blinked and rubbed his talons against his eyes,

The flower lived.

Blue and Swordtail would have to learn to live with invisible girlfriends.

I was only half a dragon before I met you, and I would be even less if I lost you now.

she was almost three, which was practically four.

Another few months of training, maybe. I'm feeling really

climbed higher up the tree and along

Or," Swordtail observed, "you could set your enemies on fire anytime you want." Sundew pointed one claw at Swordtail. "You," she said, "are growing on me.

Tui T. Sutherland