Quotes About Growth

Every cliche about kids is true they grow up so quickly, you blink and they're gone, and you have to spend the time with them now. But that's a joy.

I came to water late. I learned to swim at the age of 20.

It's funny, but you get to a time in your life when you think you have all the friends you will ever have.

Failure doesn't only make us stronger; it makes us smarter and grateful and . . . more humble.

Todo joven comete errores -dijo Makoto-. Es nuestro destino tener que convivir con las consecuecias.

When illusions are shattered by truth, talent is set free.

I am what I am and what I have always been, a poor soul on a journey.

Like young fern shoots my child's fingers curled. I did not expect, in the fifth month, frost.

I have learned to accept the fact that I will make mistakes at nearly every turn, but that those mistakes can be softened if I am honest about who I am to my girls.

She wouldn't have bothered to try to fix it. (her marriage) She would have let herself fall into something fresh and new and delicious.

Did anyone really know their child? Your child was a little stranger, constantly changing, disappearing and reintroducing himself to you. New personality traits could appear overnight.

It had never crossed her mind that sending your child to school would be like going back to school yourself.

He got Alice, the way we did, or maybe even more so than us. He made her more confident, funnier, smarter. He brought out all the things that were there already and let her be fully herself, so she seemed to shine with this inner light.

The lowest point of your life can lead to the highest.

Relationships don't stay the same. There isn't time.

No one warned you that having children reduced you right down to some smaller, rudimentary, primitive version of yourself, where your talents and your education and your achievements meant nothing. Clementine

She made the right choice for the girl she was then.

He made her more confident, funnier, smarter. He brought out all the things that were there already and let her be fully herself, so she seemed to shine with this inner light. He loved her so much, he made her seem even more lovable.

You suppose you are the trouble But you are the cure You suppose that you are the lock on the door But you are the key that opens it Rumi

about six months ago, after my fortieth, I started to feel so...the only word I can think of is 'bland.' Or 'flat' might be a better word.

She said that sometimes you had to be brave enough to "point your life in a new direction.

No one warned you that having children reduced you right down to some smaller, rudimentary, primitive version of yourself, where your talents and your education and your achievements meant nothing.

But Grace quite likes the fact that you can think something is one way all your life, and it turns out you're wrong, it can be something else entirely. It makes her feel free. Nothing is rigid. Things change. You can change your mind. You can change your thinking.

she tried to work out who she really was without people who loved her to reflect back her personality.