Quotes About Growth

Clinging to the past so hard it was like leaving an arrow embedded instead of pulling it out and letting the wound bleed clean, then heal.

The journey between what you once were and who you are now becoming is where the dance of life really takes place. —Barbara DeAngelis (Left by

Life is the messy bits.

Now in the thriving season of love when the bud relents into flower, your love turned absence has turned once more, and if my comforts fall soft as rain on her flutters, it is because love grows by what it remembers of love

My mom moved up between Leland and Greenville when I was just a little tot.

In this city 300 languages are spoken and the people that speak them live side by side in harmony. This city typifies what I believe is the future of the human race and a future where we grow together and we share and we learn from each other.

Well, on lots of small things we could have done better, but on all the big things we called it right. You should make less mistakes as you get older, and I became a councilor back in 1971, so if by this stage in politics I'm making lots of big mistakes, then I shouldn't be here.

Childhood? Which childhood? The one that didn't last? The one in which you learned to be afraid?

Education isn't for getting a job. It's about developing yourself as a human being.

Instead of looking at life as a narrowing funnel, we can see it ever widening to choose the things we want to do, to take the wisdom we've learned and create something.

Hard times are purposeful, meant to refine and redirect us. They're not arbitrary or random, and they're definitely not cruel.

With God, it isn't who you were that matters; it's who you are becoming.

I dislike change of any kind. But paradoxically, something in me – a kind of information-hunger – seeks and requires it. If sharks stop moving, they die. Kaitlin once said my brain was like that.

You're not the bad choices you may have made. You're who you are right now, and you're the next decision you make.

To become human, one must make room in oneself for the wonders of the universe. South American Indigenous saying

I'm really happy to be a mom, and I'm proud of the phase I'm in.

I mean, I kind of remember... I'm 36 now, so it's kind of hard for me to relate to what it was like when I was 25, or 24, but I do remember a period in time when that's how I defined who I was, by the music I listened to and the movies I went to.

awkwardness or reservation. When had that stopped? They

The only sure thing in this life is change. That is the one thing you may rely upon.

The marriage didn't work out but the separation is great.

It's important to live a complicated life.

The beauty is that people often come here for the stretch, and leave with a lot more.

Reality is something you rise above.

Once you taste a little of the sweetness that life can be, there really is no going back.