Quotes About Growth

A successful marriage isn't finding the right person, it's being the right person.

PEOPLE ARE LIKE TEA BAGS—YOU HAVE TO DROP THEM IN HOT WATER BEFORE YOU KNOW HOW STRONG THEY ARE.

With the long hours of daylight in the Alaska summers, the gardens served up a cornucopia of amazing and extra-large produce.

What the people around me failed to understand was that my life as I'd known it, as I'd wanted it, as I'd dreamed it, was over. The only way I could achieve fulfillment was to find myself a new one.

CECILIA RANDALL HAD heard of people who, if granted one wish, would choose to live their lives over again. Not her. She'd be perfectly content to blot just one twelve-month period from her twenty-two years. The past twelve months.

I'm being very selfish with myself right now. Taking care of me, feeding my own soul.

Funny how time scrubs away such agony, weathering it through the years, like water rushing over rocks gradually smooths away the sharp, painful edges.

Think about it. Everything of value in life involves risk.

Rule #2, Cultivate New Friendships.

People from all over asked him what he'd found the hardest.

The only way I could achieve fulfillment was to find myself a new one.

We're each our own person, we live our own lives, make our own mistakes, learn from them, and move forward.

then we fail to be wise.

A wise woman doesn't take anything for granted. She is thankful to be loved and seeks to make herself more lovely.

Learning requires inefficiency.

Choosing not to feel pain is choosing a sort of death, a withering away of the expansive self.

If I've learned anything in the twenty-five years that have transpired between graduation and today it is this: I am stronger than I thought I was and weaker than I'd hoped to be, and in between those two extremes is a little thing called life.

The world is our classroom," he always said

Your brain needs exercise, just like your body," he said. "A lazy brain does no one any good.

There's something very freeing about losing the anchors that have always defined you. Frightening, sad, but exhilarating in a poignant way, as well. You're free to float to the moon and evaporate or sink to the bottom of the deepest ocean. But you're free to explore. Some people confuse that with drifting, I suppose. I like to think of it as growing.

I stood there, my head bowed, my shoulders hunched. This is how it feels to be dragged from the cement shoes of a comfortable rut. The slow, steady strain on my legs became an excruciating amputation. My ankles pulled free from my feet. Bones snapped, cartilage tore, veins pulsed blood onto the soft brown clay of the yard.

It's not what hurts you that makes you respectable. It's how you get over it.

how to avoid naive mistakes, how to recognize talent, how to work collaboratively, and how to ask for and make great use of expert advice.

Start thinking of strangers as people who can bring new dimensions to your life, not as persons to be feared.