Quotes About Growth

Why not go out on a limb? That's where the fruit is. – Mark Twain

And then you find yourself living what you never imagined. ~ Author Unknown

We make each other alive; it doesn't make a difference if it hurts.

Getting old is like climbing a mountain; you get a little out of breath, but the view is much better!

I knew of no instruction manual for reaching a higher level of humanity and a greater wisdom. But I felt intuitively that laughter was the beginning of wisdom, as is was indispensable for survival.

Looking for a gem, we are sometimes dumb enough to try to hold on to a lump of coal, convinced that it will turn into a diamond in our lifetime... but all it does it get sh*t all over you until you burn it and use the energy for something else.

Once you acknowledge that reality is not your enemy, it will no longer be your enemy.

Some people change. Most people don't. Accepting this makes it much harder for them to disappoint you.

Today is the first day of the rest of your life, and if you screw that up, you can start again tomorrow.

The most dangerous poison is the feeling of achievement. The antidote is to every evening think what can be done better tomorrow.

Nothing goes perfectly for us. But... being incomplete is what pushes us onward to the next something... If we were even perfectly satisfied, what meaning would the rest of our lives hold, right?

Good, better, best. Never let it rest. Until your good is better and your better is best.

Quanti secoli bisognarono a quella nebulosa per crescere da atomo a stella?

If you'll promise not to cry, Baby, I will kiss you by-and-by—Maybe! Though you're six feet three, You will always be Nothing but a Baby, dear, to me.

Perfectionism: the need to be right instead of being right.

uncorny, human sized drama

Force yourself through the work, force the skills to comes; that's the hardest phase; I feel like your problem is that you're trying to judge all things in abstract before you do them. That is your tragic mistake.

It's gonna take a while. It's normal to take a while. You've just gotta fight your way through.

I finally did work out a very good relationship with my father, but it was rough growing up. We had a lot of conflict, and I think it surfaced in many of my works.

As her mom had always told her whenever a new surgery was imminent, though, the only way to secure a better future was to tackle the hard stuff in the present. That was true on an interpersonal level as it had been for her physical challenges through the years.

Love isn't always easy, is it?

that will benefit hundreds of people. Maybe thousands.

One never stops climbing, Julie, unless he wants to stop and vegetate. There's always something just ahead.

Ma non è cosa oziosa dire che il cuore, l'animo e lo spirito di un bambino possono essere spezzati [...] L'amore può morire altrettanto facilmente, se non più amaramente, nel cuore di un bambino che in quello di un adulto.