Quotes About Growth

Maybe, I thought, it's not distance that's the problem, but how you handle it. - Dash

The reward is in the risk. You can't stay hidden inside Grandpa's overprotective cloak forever. You've seemed like you needed to grow out of that for a while. Mom and Dad going away, and the red notebook, these things just helped. Now it's up to you to

If I were going to give you more advice that I myself can't seem to take, I would tell you that in order to build character, you don't invent a new self, you instead build on what's already there. The good parts. The things you love. As horrid as it sounds, at a certain point—i.e., the point we're at now—you build your character on the foundation of all the things you love.

Do you still Kill Gerbils?

do believe that most of the times your life changes, you don't realize in the moment that it's on the cusp of being altered.

I don't think it's a matter of ready-I mean, not in an all-the-way sense. You're never completely ready-you just get to the point where you're ready enough.

I think it's time to experience life outside the notebook.

No. I can't change. I shouldn't change.

And I honestly like her about twenty times more now than I did when we were dating. But love needs to have a future.

Maybe it isn't that we're supposed to find the pieces and put them back together. Maybe we're the pieces.

But the older you get, the more you realize that, yes, there are all these things that link you to the past, and you're using the same words and singing the same songs that have always been there for you, but each time, things have shifted, and you have to deal with that shift. Because

Even the hard years have some reason for celebration.

I miss him a lot. And we text and talk all the time, so he never feels that far. But I'm also happy to have some distance, to feel that I'm becoming myself without having to worry if the relationship is exerting too much influence. It's good to have each other, but you also need to have your own people, your own experiences.

Langston has been in love. Twice. His first big romance ended so badly that he had to leave

the love I felt for him was huge and real, and, while painful, it forever changed me as a person

Mrs. Basil E.

I think it's time to experience life outside the notebook.

I go from chords to cords, amped to amps.

and everything about me goes from crying out to just plain crying

We need to be willing to chance failure in order to succeed.

I don't think I'm strong enough," Aaron said. Slowly the steam faded from the pub's windows. Helen was staring across the street as well. She said, "How do you think people get strong?

Life is muddy. Denying that—thinking there's only one noble path above the fray—can be a poisonous approach to life.

Do not consider then, however learned you are, that your knowledge is complete. For learning is the river of G-d and we drink of it throughout our lives.

To study with an able mind is to escape prison, for a time.