Quotes About Growth

Life could take on any number of shapes while you were busy fighting your own demons. But if you were changing at the same rate as the person beside you, nothing else really mattered. You became each other's constant.

I learned the hard way that you shouldn't stay with someone because of your past together - what matters more is if you want the same things in the future.

you never forget your first fall.

one day, you turn around, and your baby is a man. One day, you look in the mirror, and see gray hair. One day, you realize there is less of your life left than what you've already lived.

Love isn't a perfect match, but an imperfect one. You are rocks in a tumbler. At first you bump, you scrape, you snag. But each time that happens, you smooth each other's edges, until you wear each other down. And if you are lucky, at the end of all that, you fit.

The cost of growth is always a small act of violence.

Repeat the same action over and over again, and eventually it will feel right. Eventually, there isn't even any guilt.

When you're a parent you find yourself looking at the unknown that is your child, trying to find a piece of yourself inside her, because sometimes that is what it takes to claim.

if i have gained anything over these months, it is the knowledge there is no starting over - only living with the mistakes you've made. but then, caleb taught me long ago you can't build anything without some sort of foundation. maybe we learn to live our lives by understanding, firsthand, how not to live them.

I don't know what I was thinking, coming out here. There are no silver bullets in life, there's just the long, messy climb out of the pit you've dug youself.

I have come to believe that this life I'm wearing will never really fit.

if you don't get sick, you won't get well.

If we are meant to only have children who never encounter difficulty in life, then no one should be born.

Because the more you changed, the less of you there was.

But here's the truth: no matter how much you might wish for it, princes don't come around every day, and happy endings don't grow on trees. Take it from me: the sooner you grow up, the less you'll be disappointed.

Falling is the first step in learning how to fly.

Every life has a soundtrack.

Embrace the pain to inherit the gain.

Do not despise little beginnings. It'll all make sense as you're staring at an opportunity that you realize the difficult moments merely prepared you for.

Civilization is the commercialization of survival.

The essence of education is not to get a certificate or job but, to be a holistically developed person who can positively impact the society.

12% of employees study further to learn more. 88% of employees study further to earn more.

Each job requires a conscious choice of career path, and a different plan of development.

Our shortcomings drive us, motivate us – to work harder or realize another purpose/talent.