Quotes About Growth

Me, I was growing up scrambling for meaning and I was full of confusion and fear.

At the heart of most things that look bad is something that can be good and useful.

Bobby had a gift and the gift was his simplicity. The world for Bobby Cole was a place he accepted without needing to understand it. Me, I was growing up scrambling for meaning and I was full of confusion and fear.

In the simple way of the wild daisies that grew in the grass of the pasture behind our home she offered the beauty of herself without pretension.

body heals itself, but there is a scar.

With every turn of the river since I'd left Lincoln School, the world had become broader, its mysteries more complex, its possibilities infinite.

One kind thing is the seed from which a great goodness grows. It is not hope we hold to, Niece. It is belief in the power of that growing goodness.

FROM THE HEIGHT of a certain wisdom acquired across many decades, I look down now on those four children traveling a meandering river whose end was unknown to them.

Quello che voglio dire, Odie, è che nessuno nasce cattivo. La vita ti deforma in maniera terribile.

He thought often these days of the words that ended the traditional marriage ceremony of the Anishinaabeg. You will share the same fire. You will hang your garments together. You will help one another. You will walk the same trail. You will look after one another. Be kind to one another. Be kind to your children. He hadn't always been careful to abide by these simple instructions. But a man could change

It seems to me that when you look back at a life, yours or another's, what you see is a path that weaves into and out of deep shadow.

William Kent Krueger

If we were perfect, the light he shines on us would just bounce right off. But the wrinkles, they catch the light. And the cracks, that's how the light gets inside us.

William Kent Krueger

William King

We both love him. I'm just saying, you can love your child and still see his flaws. You have to see his flaws, otherwise how can you help him?

one worth knowing can be quite known, no one worth possessing can be quite possessed—but after all, we were children.

At some point as adults we cease to be our parents' children and we become our children's parents instead.

some point as adults we cease to be our parents' children and we become our children's parents

At some point as adults we cease to be our parents' children and we become our children's parents instead. What

And we would always be shaped by the experience, in ways we could not guess at the time.

But it is not enough to be told a word as big as that. You have to live with it, carry it around with you. You have to pace around and around it, see it from different angles, at different times of day, in different light, until you understand, until it enters you. You have to hold it inside yourself in secret for years, like the hideous stone inside a peach. How

you can love your child and still see his flaws. You have to see his flaws, otherwise how can you help him?

And what a tree took away a tree shall restore