Quotes About Growth

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Your child was a little stranger, constantly changing, disappearing and reintroducing himself to you

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

No one warned you that having children reduced you right down to some smaller, rudimentary, primitive version of yourself, where your talents

Every day, in every way, I am getting better and better. —The classic conscious auto-suggestion created by the famous French psychologist and pharmacist (the "father of auto hypnosis"), Émile Coué (1857–1926)

It starts out small. You put up with little things in a relationship and then … the little things gradually get bigger.

We all do things we desperately wish we could undo. Those regrets just become part of who we are, along with everything else. To spend time trying to change that, well, it's like chasing clouds.

We all do things we desperately wish we could undo. Those regrets just become part of who we are, along with everything else. To spend time trying to change that, well, it's like chasing clouds.

Sometimes we seek that which we are not yet ready to find.

I know because I read...Your mind is not a cage. It's a garden. And it requires cultivating.

I can't believe it. I'm speechless. It is amazing to see where I've come from the last two years.

A garden requires patient labor and attention. Plants do not grow merely to satisfy ambitions or to fulfill good intentions. They thrive because someone expended effort on them.

A person cannot love a plant after he has pruned it, then he has either done a poor job or is devoid of emotion.

If it were possible for every person to own a tree and to care for it, the good results would be beyond estimation.

Libraries: The medicine chest of the soul.

Once we know our weaknesses they cease to do us any harm.

To grow wiser means to learn to know better and better the faults to which this instrument with which we feel and judge can be subject.

What we do upon a great occasion will probably depend upon what we already are; what we are will be the result of previous years of self-discipline.

I took some lifelong lessons away from my days of playing chess. The game is very analytical, and you must change your analysis with every single move. I realized that the same lesson applies to life, too—if your course changes a little bit, your strategy must change along with it.

The most important emotional accomplishment of the toddler years is reconciling the urge to become competent and self-reliant with the longing for parental love and protection.

I knew, even at eight, that the confusion of values thrust upon me by parents, teachers, other children, nannies, camp counselors, and others would only worsen as I grew up. The years would add complications and steer me into more and more impenetrable tangles of rights and wrongs, desirables and undesirables. I had already seen enough to know that.

That's one of the benefits of working on big budget films. You work with people who have a lot of experience and you get to learn a lot.

I think it's really, really important to mix it up as an actor, to try to get as much kind of varied experience as you can, not only for your own personal growth as an actor but for the audience to keep them guessing about what you're going to do.

A good book changes for you every few years because you are in a different place in your own life. That's a sign of a good novel. Not only will two different readers get something different but so will a single reader at different points in his life.