Quotes About Growth

As I grew older, I found I could surrender my own comfort so effortlessly it didn't qualify as sacrifice.

It's not that you like being sad, but you start to see the value of it. You don't judge sadness so harshly.

What is it about sadness that can be so fulfilling?

In those dangerous narrows grew children who knew too much too young but, sadly, always seemed to learn too little too late.

Regrets serve their purpose. You'll see.

Jennings, barely listening to the little girls' chatter, sat amazed at the way life continued. He was not the same person.

Century plants bloom only once just before they die." "So they go out in a flame of glory.

Use your memories to create something that keeps you warm at night, instead of clinging to worn-out emotions that tie you to past mistakes. We are all flawed, but we are also all perfect in our humanity.

Accept your losses and forgive your mistakes, then you can embrace a happy future.

Good sense comes from experience, and a lotta that comes from actin' like a damn fool. —Dutch Callahan

Bloom where you're planted and if you can't do that, plant where you bloom. —Dutch Callahan

the same and you know it." "Isn't it? So you had your heart broken. Any of us that have been around for any length of time have had our hearts broken. That's life.

If he never loved her the way she loved him, it was going to be okay. It was truly better to have loved and lost than never to have loved at all. Her heart would survive this, and would be richer for having known him.

because of her foolishness

When love is full grown it has few words, and sometimes it growls them out.

You'll find that education's about the only thing lying around loose in this world, and that it's about the only thing a fellow can have as much of as he's willing to haul away. Everything else is screwed down tight and the screw-driver lost.

I rose from marsh mud algae, equisetum, willows, sweet green, noisy birds and frogs.

Though I would never have believed it as a teenager, you do move past things, outgrow the person you were. Sometimes, just by staying alive, you find you have become someone who can live in the world after all.

It's said (truly) that most women forget the pain of childbirth; I think that we all forget the pain of being a child at school for the first time, the sheer ineptitude, as though you'll never learn to mark out your own space. It's double shaming - shaming to REMEMBER as well, to fee so sorry for your scabby little self back there in small people's purgatory.

Was nützt einem ein Vater? Er drängt dich dazu auszufliegen, schubst dich aus dem Nest und rät dir, die Flügel zu benutzen, weil du sonst zu Boden stürzt.

There is always something left to love. And if you ain't learned that, you ain't learned nothing.

I am] A fool who believes that death is waste and love is sweet and that the earth turns and men change every day and that rivers run and that people wanna be better than they are and that flowers smell good and that I hurt terribly today, and that hurt is desperation and desperation is—energy and energy can move things...

MAMA (Quietly, woman to woman) He finally come into his manhood today, didn't he? Kind of like a rainbow after the rain… RUTH (Biting her lip, lest her own pride explode in front of Mama) Yes, Lena.

There's no such thing as perfection, and even if there were, I think it'd be rather boring.