Quotes About Growth

You can't just jump into debauchery one night and expect to get the hang of it by morning. It takes years.

Nitko nije savršen. Svi koji su ikada ikoga voljeli morali su prije?i preko ne?ega.

Broaden your horizons. They're the only ones you'll ever have, so make the suckers as wide as possible.

There were no safe places in life. That's why you had to keep moving

This life of mine has been a little tough to negotiate the past two years. Not that everyone's isn't, after all, it wouldn't be called 'life' if a litte difficulty weren't automatically interferred. 'Super duper journey of progress and inspiration' maybe, but not 'life'.

You leave a place and people and after a while, you change, they change and whatever it was that connected you to begin with is gone forever

I had found that taking risks, being true to myself, and making decisions with good intentions can exceed even my own expectations.

Ultimately, we can never change someone else's behavior—we can only change our own.

As painful as some of the past year's changes have been, they will ultimately lead to a better place. The adversity you come across in life may cause pain, but with pain comes growth and the opportunity to rise to the occasion as your strongest, best self.

It wasn't a "Eureka!" kind of moment—it was the slow realization that the parts of me that had been empty were starting to fill up again. Yet, as gradual as this all was, there was one surreal moment that crystallized it for me—one moment where I suddenly understood what Idol meant to people and what it was doing for me.

You're hitting rock bottom," she said. "You know, Jennifer, you have to hit bottom before you can make a change, and it's finally happening.

The difference between bitter and better is I.

Okay, I thought. Here you are. You are here. And you move forward because that's the way it works; that's the only place u can go. You keep going until it stops hurting, or until you find new things to hurt you worse, I guess. And that is the human condition, all of us lurching along in our own private miseries, because that's the way it is. Because, I guess, God didn't give us any choice. You grow up, I remembered Abigail telling me. You learn.

Your first love is important. It's part of your story. The story you'll tell yourself, the one you'll tell about yourself, for the rest of your life.

They tried to bury us. They didn't know we were seeds.

Maybe when you first experience a place as a six-year-old, you become six again, every time you return.

I listened, thinking this was a Drew I'd never seen. One who saw her own privilege. One who was trying to do better.

the hours can feel long, but the years go by fast.

Things happen, and you can't make them un-happen. You don't get do-overs, you can't roll back the clock, and the only thing you can change, and the only thing that does any good to worry about, is how you let them affect you.

a concentration of young people who wanted to open their minds

Sometimes the point isn't to end up with something worth showing the world. Sometimes it's just rehearsal.

Eight years older than me

Diana could have spent the rest of her life content, with just those episodes, and those questions, to remind her of what she'd survived and what she'd done. She could have lived like Eve in the garden, ignoring the snake, avoiding the apple tree. And then, one day, the apple tree found her.

instead of cash. It took me the better part of another week to register