Quotes About Growth

To live sacred lives requires that we live at the edge of what we do not know. —Anne Hillman

so even if spring continues to disappoint we can say at least the lettuce loved the rain.

It's fun to read when you're not afraid of making mistakes. Bonnie teaches me that it's okay to go slow, and to keep trying – just like the sticker says.

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Always strive to be a better parent to your children than your parents were to you. —DALEEN BATEMAN BARLOW

Science certainly is not the static statement of universal laws we all hear about in elementary school. Nor is it a set of arbitrary rules. Science is an evolving body of knowledge. Many of the ideas we are currently investigating will prove to be wrong or incomplete. Scientific descriptions certainly change as we cross the boundaries that circumscribe what we know and venture into more remote territory where we can glimpse hints of the deeper truths beyond.

For the first time perhaps ever, I am not denying the truth of all of my cracks. I am living them.

It's our scars that define us.

Shit happens, but it only stinks as long as you keep it around.

know I'll never fully control her, and the very thing that would have made her wrong for me in the past is the very thing that makes her what I want and need now. She is freedom. She is passion. She is the safe place where I can be the man I've tried to deny beneath the Master persona, and failed.

That must have been devastating." "At the time, yes," I admit, "but it helped me become me. We grow with every mountain we climbed. Even the ones that we fall down." "Even those we fall down," she says softly, almost to herself. She flicks me a look. "I think falling down is better than not climbing.

It's our scars that define us, Sara. Diego has to live life to appreciate life.

I'm going to have to grow my own teeth.

Maybe wisdom tends to latch onto itself when it finds itself in various places.

I am still learning about love. I thought I understood it--not just mother love, but the love for one's parents, for one's husband, and for one's laotong. I've experienced the other types of love--pity love, respectful love and gratitude love. But looking at our secret fan with its messages written between Snow Flower and me over many years, I see that I didn't value the most important love--deep-heart love.

Sometimes I hated it when I was right, but I always hated it when someone else was. Especially when their being right made me wrong. I'm irrational that way. It's something I'm working on.

That's what siblings are: a reality check. Try to become someone you're not - affect an accent, or start quoting the temperature in Celsius instead of Fahrenheit- and they're the ones who smack you upside the head. Siblings are like potters; they try you by fire, glaze you with taunts, finish you with well-aimed jibes. If you emerge from that kiln without cracking, you can survive the world.

In a new country, it helps to remember the things that were good once, the things we want to recreate now.

People who stay in the same town with the same friends for their entire lives never get a chance to find out who they can really be, because they will always be considered as who they were.

Just because people treat you like shit, just because you may feel like shit sometimes, doesn't mean you are shit. You can make something of your life. You can give of yourself in this world to make it a better place." - Jake quoting his mentor, Arnie Coel

Motherhood was an ever widening circle of good-byes.

You [meaning mothers] said good-bye a little every day -- from the minute they left your body until they left your home.

Sometimes life goes by in a trickle and sometimes life goes by in a flood. It's in those rainy seasons you find out how well you can swim.

Some of the hardest things you go through will teach you the most.