Quotes About Growth

I remade my heart. I learned to conduct myself in love so it could not betray me.

Love has mass and volume. Put it into your life; it must displace something. As it has displaced my notion of what was good and important in the world, and substituted this: The knowledge that there is nothing more important than people willing to stand up for the truth of each other. The understanding of what it is to protect another fragile being. The understanding that I, too, will grow old.

They would work together in pursuit of whatever it was their lot to discover. He didn't like her. But neither did he pity her. At least there was that.

Life offers its wisdom generously. Everything teaches. Not everyone learns.

Our purpose in life is to grow in wisdom and in love.

Raising kids isn't carpentry, he said Forget measuring twice and cutting once, You measure over and over everyday

I lost myself, but in the end that helped me find myself. You've just got to have faith and work at it." "With anything?" I ask. "Anything," she says, as a gap finally opens in the intersection. "As long as you accept the hardest thing of all: that you might have to lose to win.

I want you to be wise for your own sake, Stephen, because at the best life requires great wisdom. I want you to learn to make friends of your books; someday you may need them, because – ' He hesitated, 'because you mayn't find life at all easy, we none of us do, and books are good friends.

Morgana hat viel erlebt, und durch die Jahrtausende weise geworden, blieb es doch im Herzen ein Kind. Es ist bis heute noch kindlich genug, Neuem gegenüber Verwunderung zu empfinden. Und wer im Herzen ein Kind bleibt, wird vom Leben mit Wundern belohnt.

Tout grandit, m'a-t-il dit un jour, sauf les catastrophes. Elles sont énormes quand elles naissent; ensuite, elles rapetissent un peu plus chaque jour.

Este elemento cognoscitivo puede ser una perla ya formada o una semilla que debe aún crecer; pero en cualquier caso, hay que buscarlo, cultivarlo, merecerlo, recibirlo. No está ahí; no es inmediatamente dado a todos. Es fruto de un proceso aunque éste no sea homogéneo o paulatino. Aunque pueda ser instantáneo como un relámpago, el mismo relámpago ha debido ser nube por mucho tiempo antes de revelarse como luz.

a wasted opportunity wasn't just a missed chance, but was a wound to your future. Miss too many opportunities, thus sustaining too many wounds, and you wouldn't have a future at all.

Snuggle down in my cocoon, be a butterfly soon.

life is more than intelect

By doing, I learn what to do. By going, I learn where to go. One day, by dying, I'll learn how to die, and leave the world and hope to land in light.

This life is just a bootcamp, to test and toughen us, to prepare us for the next life of service in some great adventure. Our third and eternal life comes after that.

Annamaria had preferred oil rather than electric lamps. She said that sunshine grows plants, the plants express essential oils, and years later those oils fire the lamps - giving back 'the light of the other days'.

How have you kept yourself as yourself all these years? 'Books,' the boy said. 'Thousands of books.' 'They must have been the right books.' 'Some were, some weren't. You figure out which are which.' 'How do you figure it out?' 'At first by how you feel.' 'And later?' 'By reading what's there on the page and also what's not.' 'Between the lines,' she said. 'Under the lines,' he said. -Annamaria and Timothy -Odd Apocalypse by Dean Koontz pg 328 chapter 49

We have within us the ability to change for the better and to find dignity as individuals rather than as drones in one mass movement or another. We have the ability to love, the need to be loved, and the willingness to put our own lives on the line to protect those we love

Anyway, to maintain the right perspective, sweetie, we always should be at risk of failure, the possibility of making wrong choices.

There's no tragedy in nature, only process -- and therefore no triumph, either.

Irrational fear feeds on itself and grows. You must deny it.

This isn't a stupid horror movie, odd one. It's never too late to do the intelligent thing.

CHANGE ISN'T EASY, Micky. Changing the way you live means changing how you think. Changing how you think means changing what you believe about life. That's hard, sweetie. When we make our own misery, we sometimes cling to it even when we want so bad to change, because the misery is something we know. The misery is comfortable.