Quotes About Growth

I am learning my way toward something that will make sense of my life, and I learn by going where I have to go, with whatever companions I am graced.

Anyway, knowledge isn't wisdom, and we aren't here just to stuff ourselves with facts and figures. We are given this life so we might earn the next; the gift is a chance to grow in spirit, and knowledge is one of the many nutrients that facilitate our growth.

Were you always such a snake, the child asked, or did you grow into what you are?

From birth to death we explore and seek, and in the end we arrive where we started, the past having made one great slow turn on a carousel to become our future, and if we have learned anything worth learning, the carousel will bring us to the one place we most need to be.

We are what we are, he thought, and maybe the only time we can change what we are is when life throws us such a surprise that it's like hitting a plate-glass window with a baseball bat, shattering the grip of the past.

Chronologically she is twelve but emotionally she is older, and intellectually older still.

If there's nothing to learn because we know it all, what's the challenge? Why would the effort matter? What would be the point? - Odd Thomas

Little City wasn't really a city. It was more like a big town, with twenty thousand citizens. There had been fewer than four hundred residents when Thomas Little founded the place, but he had been a man with big dreams and no regard for the truth.

That's what life's all about: little by little, day by day, with excruciating stubbornness, each of us learning how to be less screwed up.

So many things in my continuing education are learned by going where I have to go and doing what I have to do. Therefore, my only answer is: I guess I'll find out.

The only thing I know for sure is how much I do not know. Maybe there is wisdom in that recognition. Unfortunately, I have found no comfort in it.

By the time he receives a high school degree

Frequently, our mistakes turn out to suggest meaning beyond the fact that we have made an error.

as a junior, he graduates with the senior class

After twenty-six months on Jacob's Ladder, her fear has largely faded

ameliorated

And anyway, things have a way of happening that force you to be what you are.

Like her grandfather, she is a knowledge sponge.

Stories were the greatest blessing of intelligence. They were food for the soul. They were medicine. You could live a thousand lives through stories—and learn to shape your own life into a story of the best kind. She

We grow, we change, we labor to maturity, to what little wisdom we might ever acquire, but always in the mirror is who we were as well as who we are, a harking back and, yet again, a quiet reckoning.

Or maybe not getting it, accepting less without bitterness, and being grateful for what we have is a part of what we're here to learn.

areas of knowledge about which he was ignorant and probably always would be. There was only so much time.

When you grow up, Jonah, women are gonna break your heart so often, you lose count.

TUESDAY, 30 DECEMBER