Quotes About Growth

Pain makes you strong.

Once there was a boy with a wicked heart,' the troll woman said. 'No, that's not right,' Cardan interrupted. 'That's not how it goes. He had a wicked tongue.' 'Boys change,' she told him. 'And so do stories.

Having only recently stopped playing the villain, Cardan thinks again of the winding path of decisions that bought him to this unlikely place, here with her, racing over the sky, planning to end trouble, instead of making more of it.

You must be strong enough to strike and strike and strike again without tiring. The first lesson is to make yourself that strong. It will hurt. Pain makes you strong.

I couldn't be the child that they had loved. Not after everything that happened to me. Not after learning that I am made of sticks and snow.

It is my belief that books are living things.... And as living things, they need to be protected.

What doesn't kill you makes you stronger," Patty added. "My father always said that." Mary laughed. "What doesn't kill you leaves you scarred, wary, and weary.

Voltaire—you know him? He said that a man should cultivate his own garden. Guess I'm with him on that.

The more you learn, the less you know

in time-out. That's how you're acting—like five-year-olds. It's time you realized that you are sixteen and way too old for this nonsense. And you

a person's life can't be defined by one incident. We are the whole of our experiences. We are the warp, and life is the weft, going up and down around us, transforming us in its wake. Each new line adds to the whole . . . adds to our strength.

I read this book once that said we meet the people we need to meet when we're ready for them. Maybe that's why we met. To try and help each other figure out who we are now.

Holly Jacobs

could come of it.

and she reflected that thirty-five was a lot harder than twenty-five had been. She was pretty sure she was getting smarter, but she figured she was falling apart at the same rate. By the time she was seventy, she ought to be both brilliant and too decrepit to make any use of her hard-won knowledge.

Your transformation will be the miracle.

I was afraid of the dance once, too. But I learned to embrace it and the mistakes I would make. Do not turn away from your fear. Turn toward love instead.

No one is born beneath this dance. This dance gives birth to you.

Be willing to turn your attention to that which serves you.

purification was the point of such pain.

Purge everything that's holding you back. Whatever it is you feel you are being deprived of, trust the limitation serves to bring you more of what you want.

If you have the guts to keep making mistakes, your wisdom and intelligence leap forward with huge momentum.

Do these two things every day for Huck: number one: make him feel good about himself, and, number two: allow him to figure out how to do things on his own. Those two simple steps. Every day. It's all he needs to plow forward and grow into a strong, happy man.

Just make sure the unknown is a place you the writer understand. If you're going to write, you have to love. ... You have to fall on your face, swim against the tide, make terrible mistakes, and pay the price; you have to tune in, turn on, drop out, drop back in, fight, cry, lose, win. ... Above all, don't get too comfortable. Go out there and get your heart broken. You won't be able to write until you do.