Quotes About Growth

Did you think that we were going to go through life completely unaltered?" he asked. "That we would occupy ourselves with nothing but selfish pleasures and trivial amusements?" "I was counting on it!

A humbling thought occurred to her. When you meet the right man, the list of things you would never do suddenly becomes much shorter.

The last time they had been together, they'd waltzed in a winter garden. Now, they were de-lousing a pestilent street urchin.

In the past year I've gotten used to being cut down to size whenever I start acting too high and mighty. If you didn't keep me in line,I'd be damn well unmanageable. As it is, you're going to have a lot of work to do once they leave.

The trick was forgetting about what she had lost … and learning to go on with what she had left.

No matter how old you get, you're always capable of surprising yourself.

Even the worst haircut eventually grows out.

Everyone should know what it's like to get a C.

Her reticent nature had iced over years before. The thaw would take some time.

is impossible for a man to learn what he thinks he already knows. That's all, folks. Be safe out there.

Many young girls make that mistake at one time or another—they lose themselves in a boy.

I circled the next puddle and said, "I'm going to let you in on a secret: People don't grow up like you think they do." Rae sighed and said, "What are you talking about?" "The whole grown-up thing is a myth. Whatever is wrong with you now will probably be wrong with you in twenty years.

1809If I felt at times under-supervised, it was this same freedom that stands out as one of the pleasures of my childhood.

I believed, at twenty-two, that I had to force myself toward whatever filled me with dread, and along the way I'd lost the idea that fear was a useful gauge of risk.

Afraid was good, he thought. Change requires fear, he knew this too.

People do not say "failed" any more, Jane thinks. They say other things. A whole movement has risen up to avoid the acknowledgement of failure. People want to learn from failure, they want to embrace it. But failure isn't good, she thinks. If something can be redeemed it isn't really a failure.

Our worst day brings out the best in us

Self-enrichment is that act of creating a thousand micro wins, so you can have one macro win.

People are more comfortable with a familiar discomfort than they are with an unfamiliar new possibility.

you'll learn how to recognize when you're living in the country called "Sad" in the town called "Victimville" on the street called "Hurt Lane" so you don't stay there longer than you need to.

When you give yourself permission to have made mistakes in the past—when you begin to trust yourself about making new choices—that's when your intuition becomes reliable and trustworthy.

Your best opportunities are out on the skinny branch.

Don't forget, the real glow up is internal.

Tell them to who? Why would anyone want to hear my jokes? It was my I-don't-know-what-I-don't-know moment.