Quotes About Growth

Please keep turning your dreams in for new ones.

Answerless questions can destroy you. Move on.

When first love ends, most people eventually know there will be more to come. They are not through with love. Love is not through with them. It will never be the same as the first, but it will be better in different ways.

Part of growing up is making sure your sense of reality isn't entirely grounded in your own mind.

Being a bitch is easy. It's finding the alternative that's hard.

We pencil-sketch our previous life so we can contrast it to the technicolor of the moment.

You think you know your possibilities. Then other people come into your life and suddenly there are so many more.

tiny: maybe there's something you're afraid to say, or someone you're afraid to love, or somewhere you're afraid to go. it's gonna hurt. it's gonna hurt because it matters.

It is hard to stop seeing your son as a son and to start seeing him as a human being. It is hard to stop seeing your parents as parents and to start seeing them as human beings. It's a two-sided transition, and very few people manage it gracefully.

If you want to live within the definition of your own truth, you have to choose to go through the initially painful and ultimately comforting process of finding it.

There is always something new to learn about the person you love.

And maybe it is only by finding yourself that you can feel the true intensity of becoming close to another person.

So I said I wanted you to stay, even though nothing could stay the same.

I don't want you to think I got through this undamaged, okay? But I'm learning to live with it. Because otherwise, the damage is all you are.

encroach, v. The first three nights we spent together, I couldn't sleep. I wasn't used to your breathing, your feet on my legs, your weight in my bed. In truth, I still sleep better when I'm alone. But now I allow that sleep isn't always the most important thing.

Make more than dust.

If you play your cards right, the next generation will have so much more than you did.

I'm ready to lose myself, but I'm not ready to lose you. I'm ready to find myself, But I'm not ready for you to know what I find.

Every relationship has a hard part at the beginning. This is our hard part. It's not like a puzzle piece where there's an instant fit. With relationships, you have to shape the pieces on each end before they go perfectly together.

You're becoming. You're in the process of becoming. You just don't know what yet. That felt right. It felt okay to stop there, for now, as we walked through the future.

How amazing it is that friendships can become so full that you can't imagine what your life was like before them.

No, really,' I said. 'I think she's great. And I honestly like her about twenty more times now than I did when we were dating. But love needs to have a future. And Sofia and I don't have a future. We've just had a good time sharing the present, that's all.

Breathing, n You had asthma as a child, had to carry around an inhaler. But when you grew older, it went away. You could run for miles and it was fine. Sometimes I worry that this is happening to me in reverse. The older I get, the more I lose my ability to breathe.

You have a responsibility to your future self, who is someone you might not even know, might not even understand yet. Because until you die, that future self has as much of a life as you do. [...] Your life is not disposable.