Quotes About Growth

I am always doing what I cannot do yet, in order to learn how to do it.

It is looking at things for a long time that ripens you and gives you a deeper meaning.

Even the knowledge of my own fallibility cannot keep me from making mistakes. Only when I fall do I get up again.

Our world expands or shrinks in direct proportion to our courage,

without truth, people cannot heal. If we ignore the root cause of our wounds, we will continue to be wounded, even if we heal some of the damage. We might fix what has been harmed. But if we continue doing what caused the harm in the first place, we will simply acquire (or inflict) new wounds because the core activity has not changed.

You always have more brain cells than you're currently using.

Passage of time lends perspective to one's observations; perspective then leads to wisdom.

Praise a large domain, cultivate a small estate.

How happy those whose walls already rise!

Now every field is clothed with grass, and every tree with leaves; now the woods put forth their blossoms, and the year assumes its gay attire.

Not every soil can bear all things.

As the twig is bent the tree inclines.

Steep thyself in a bowl of summertime.

Spring shows what God can do with a drab and dirty world.

Try a thing you haven't done three times. Once, to get over the fear of doing it. Twice, to learn how to do it. And a third time, to figure out whether you like it or not.

One of the great jokes of life is that by the time you're old enough to recognize how little you know, all you can do is mop up the aftermath, dump it in a giant personal hazmat container and move on.

Rise to the occassion which is life!

You get older and you are a whole mess of things, new thoughts, sorry feelings, big plans, enormous doubts, goling along hoping and getting disappointed, over and over again, no wonder I don't recognize my little crayon picture. It appears to be me and it is and it is not.

If you want something to grow and be so beautiful you could have a nice day just from looking at it, you have to wait. Meanwhile you keep watering it and it has to have sunshine and also you talk to it.

She isn't easy to have for a mom, she has too many opinions for one family, she can make me want to slam doors and stick out my tongue but I don't do it because of the long run.

He could add something to the list of things you weren't supposed to do. Don't get hurt, don't get dirty, don't get drunk, don't get scared, don't count on it. You ended up doing all of them.

You gots to live as hard as you can where you be. You gots to look deep inside and find out all the thin's you got to give the world. Then you got to give it. You can't spend all your days lookin' backward, and you can't spend all your days lookin' forward. It's today that counts, Rose. Yous got to bloom where you be planted. God's got you planted here for now.

every generation of people thinks they are growing up into a harder time. She thinks maybe it makes them feel better about the struggle they have leaving their childhood behind.

It is impossible to go backward and undo the past. All you can do is live with the present and try to make the best of the future.