Quotes About Growth

We watch them grow, with sadness and amazement and fear. We have stepped away, but not entirely away. They know this. They sense it. We are no longer here, but we are not yet gone. And we will be like that for the rest of their lives. We watch, and they surprise us. We watch, and they surpass us.

I don't mean that God made this happen to teach us something. Or to teach me something. How monstrously selfish would that be? I just mean that if we go through this thing and it changes us so much, you have to hope that it changes us for the better, right? If goodness can't come from bad things, it makes bad things unbearable.

But for today it is working in this awkward kind of working. And that is enough for a beginning.

I learn. Sometimes I am taught something I have already been taught in dozens of other classrooms. Sometimes I am taught something completely new. I have to access the body, access the mind and see what information it's retained. And when I do, I learn. Knowledge is the only thing I take with me when I go.

We're going to get through this. 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.

shouldn't letting go be painless if you've never lesrned how to hold on?

Nothing gold can stay [...] so I guess we'll have to be silver.

To do this—to understand the full extent to which people can define themselves beyond their bodies—I have had to learn and learn and learn, and then learn some more. And by learn I mean unlearn…and then learn and unlearn and learn some more.

The truth is that over time, the vessel expands as well. You grow. Your life widens.

It might feel like the end of the world-- but it's the beginning of your art.

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

transient, adj. In school, the year was the marker. Fifth grade. Senior year of high school. Sophomore year of college. Then after, the jobs were the marker. That office, this desk. But now that school is over and I've been working at the same desk for longer than I can truly believe, I realize: You have become the marker. This is your era. And it's only if it goes on and on that I will have to look for other ways to identify the time.

The whole point of love isn't to have fun times without hard times, to have someone who is fine with who you are and doesn't challenge you to be even better than that. The whole point of love isn't to be the other person's solution or answer or cure. The whole point of love is to help them find what they need, in any way you can. What we have - it's definitely not normal. But the whole point of love is to write your own version of normal, and that is exactly what we're going to do. -Rhiannon

I WILL BE A BETTER PERSON. I know it's hard to believe. From me. From the bitch who got pummeled with an orange tray. But I knew - I hadn't become the worst kind of person yeat. I had to believe that. [...] Being a bitch is easy. It's finding the alternative that's hard.

School is not like church. I know a lot of people in my school are happy about this, but I think that's because they've known the wrong kind of churches, the ones that hold back instead of lifting up.

It's so natural to drag a good thing down. It takes a lot of control to let it be what it is. -Rhiannon

After a year, Peter and Neil feel they are beyond the discovery phase. But we're sure that they will continually discover this not to be the case. There's always something new to learn about the person you love.

What do I know about love? Not much - that's the safe answer.

I guess I don't believe in a small break. I feel a break is a break, and if it starts small, it only gets wider.

It's my way of telling her that even though I haven't experienced so many things, I have managed to have a life.

Yes, our situations are different. But we're both human, and that means we both have the nearly infinite potential to mess things up, and need a nearly infinite amount of patience and grace in order to be the people we should be.

You're on your own … until you're not.

I do believe that most of the time your life changes, you don't realise in the moment that it's on the cusp of being altered.

So even though it doesn't seem like anything's changed- things change all the time, mostly in little ways. That's how it goes, I guess.