Quotes About Growth

As soon as you notice your first wrinkle and your first white hair, sigh with ease. You are well on your way to becoming who you always wanted to be." VÉRONIQUE VIENNE

I hit a low place," she began. "Perhaps it was the idea that fifty was looming. I don't know, but I felt off. Out of sync with myself.

Sometimes you're better off without what you thought you needed.

Change what you can, darlin'. That's my best advice.

Sometimes you simply do the things you do, and it doesn't necessarily help to pick on the old you by proclaiming how smart the new you is. - The Big Tiny: A Built-It-Myself Memoir

This life is but the childhood of our immortality.

I felt the stirring even of parts of me that had been dead since childhood, that sense of the child as a sort of antenna stuck in the middle of an infinite expanse of possibilities.

All I'd done in better than two decades was tread forward until I reached the limit of certain assumptions, and stepped off.

My habit when I've been humiliated is to go out and buy a book.

To establish true self-esteem we must concentrate on our successes and forget about the failures and the negatives in our lives. - Denis Waitley.

View change as the one constant in your life. Welcome it. Expect it. Anticipate it.

You must continue to gain expertise, but avoid thinking like an expert.

Get out of that comfortable rut.

Break the daily and weekly routine you have set. Get out of that comfortable route.

You are your own scriptwriter and the play is never finished, no matter what your age or position in life.

Only farmers and the young, who live dependent upon change, understand what it is to know the continual flowering of life, however subtle.

Knowing where you come from is one thing, but it's suicide to stay there.

What molds us is what maims us.

scarred by wisdom she'd never asked for.

It was the lack of a clear reason that got to her most, & it stabbed her that a relationship that had once seemed unbreakable could slip apart so easily due to nothing more than time, family turmoil, & growth spurts.

The person you love is rarely worthy of how big your love is. Because no one is worthy of that and maybe no one deserves the burden of it, either. You'll be let down. You'll be disappointed and have your trust broken and have a lot of real sucky days. You lose more than you win. You hate the person you love as much as you love him. But, shit, you roll up your sleeves and work—at everything—because that's what growing older is.

It's been a complicated decade for me." She

The soul seemed to flower as the body declined.

Only a child thinks life is about her wants.