Quotes About Growth

Faith isn't really faith until it's beat up and put through a fire. When you're crushed, you feel like you're dying. But you're actually coming to life. When you're broken, that's when the best of you comes out.

It is important that fear of failure should not prevent your son from experiencing life to the full.

Authentic Christianity never destroys what is good. It makes it grow, transfigures it, and enriches itself from it.

I am in a spot where I can neither be what I always am nor turn into what I could be.

It was like learning to ride the bike; I felt myself taking off, the freedom of going places I couldn't have gone before, and it was easy.

Life's funny. You have to find a way to keep going, to keep laughing, even after you realize that none of your dreams will come true. When you realize that, there's still so much of a life to get through.

Yeah, you have to struggle, and yeah, sometimes you fail, but how you react to that failure is where the choice comes in. You can either get pissed and give up, or you can ask yourself, 'How can I make it better?

To change yourself means to change the future.

Intellectual achievement is useless without social development.

Why should she try to do these things? What motivates a child to grow?

Why even ask the question? Growth is "natural," a child "develops," its potentialities "unfold." The words themselves, in their root meanings, proclaim inevitability.

She had achieved what might be called a fourth-grade competence, and we didn't want her to lose it, as she certainly would if it wasn't exercised.

Clara Claiborne Park

A man has only one escape from his old self — to see a different self in the mirror of some woman's eyes.

He was intrigued now, as when he had first met her, by her apparent lack of interest in him. 'Gertie, Gertie,' he said in humblest tones. 'I treated you badly.' She peered at him rather rudely, as if trying to recollect what he was talking about. 'You were a stage on a journey,' she commented at last. 'Journeys are seldom comfortable.

I've never before understood that I too can be needed and wanted. I've been the youngest child for so long that I never seen myself any other way.

Being filled with the Holy Spirit, then, is a matter of obedience to the Word of God. The filling of the Spirit that all experienced at Pentecost was a matter of a promise being fulfilled. Today, the believer is to be filled in obedience to the command of Ephesians 518, continuously, not merely by a single, crisis experience. The Christian life is a growth process toward maturity.

The first half of our lives is ruined by our parents and the second half by our children.

The first half of our life is ruined by our parents and the second half by our children.

The first half of our lives is ruined by our parents and the last half by our children.

The first half of our lives are ruined by our parents and the second half by our children.

The love of nature comes with maturing years and is one of the few compensations for growing old.

Information's pretty thin stuff unless mixed with experience.

I will surpass myself in waves, ah, Lord, and may everything come and fall upon me, even the incomprehension of myself at certain white moments because all I have to do is comply with myself and then nothing will block my path until death-without-fear, from any struggle or rest I will rise up as strong and beautiful as a young horse.