Quotes About Growth

He was changed, burned, branded, destroyed and rebuilt. And he loved it.

I think there are only two things you can do with your hometown: look for ways to make it better, or look for another place to live.

Couldn't you outgrow the little-girl fantasy? Couldn't love be gentler, smaller, quiter, not quite all-consuming?

But anyone who has been in love knows that love is just the beginning. You learn more every day, every year, every decade, and not just about the object of your affection, but about yourself, and about the nature of love itself, and eventually, about the nature of loss.

Parenthood makes such sweet hypocrites of us all.

Being aware of yourself and choosing your behavior is the first step towards powerful life change. This is how we become better people. This is how we become better parents.

Sometimes we forget that parenting, like love, is a verb. It takes effort and work to yield positive returns. There is an incredible amount of self-awareness involved in being a good parent. It requires us to look at what we do when we are tired and stressed and stretched to our limits. These actions are called our default settings. Our default settings are the actions and reactions we have when we are too tired to choose a better way.

Is there a greater gift you can give to your children and your children's children than to grow up to be happier, more secure and resilient adults? We don't think so.

Over the years, I've learned that the first idea you have is irrelevant. It's just a catalyst for you to get started. Then you figure out what's wrong with it and you go through phases of denial, panic, regret. And then you finally have a better idea and the second idea is always the important one.

The really dramatic growth happens when a startup only has three of four people, so only three or four people see that, whereas tens of thousands see business as it's practiced by Boeing or Philip Morris.

It's going to hurt until it doesn't anymore.

You can't reach what's in front of you until you let go of what's behind you.

I refuse to be left behind in this world, so I need to catch up.

You have taught me that I am allowed to like myself as I am, at whatever stage I am in. I can change, I can stay the same, or I can be whoever it is that is right for me; but I can be satisfied. No, more than that. I can be proud. I can celebrate. That is what I am going to do.

I am hit with the enormity of the impact that this family is having in my life. They, and mostly Chris, are saving me. Or teaching me to save myself.

You scream it in everything you do. You're holding on to what happened because you think that's all you have." "It is all I have." "Find more

Hiding the truth will only cripple your emotional development.

I'm very aware of how well I am operating in situations that I would have been incapable of broaching even last summer. Chris, Sabin, Eric, and Estelle, have rescued me, and I can't fathom how I can ever begin to repay them.

YOU CAN'T REACH WHAT'S IN FRONT OF YOU UNTIL YOU LET GO OF WHAT'S BEHIND YOU.

The friends you make in college are friends you'll have for life, even if you don't talk for years at a time. You'll see.

We refuse to let the past wreck our today. That's why we're the team that we are.

No one gets through life unscathed.

The friends you make in college are friends you'll have for life, even if you don't talk for years at a time.

but I have that time, so I will take it. I will revel in the opportunity to find rebirth and rejuvenation.