Quotes About Growth

She threw words at me like handfuls of mud, and now that they've dried, I can brush them off.

She didn't like herself like this, either. But she couldn't go back to being the girl she'd been before she met him; that girl was gone. So where did that leave her?

Most women like to have a few years to get to know themselves, before getting to know marriage and children." "But once you have a family, there's so much more you learn about yourself

What he did was wrong. He doesn't deserve your love. But he does deserve your forgiveness, because otherwise he will grow like a weed in your heart until it's choked and overrun. The only person who suffers, when you squirrel away all that hate, is you

I had the heart of the relationship, and no body to grow in it. what happen then? what else, I said It broke.

It's silly to anthropomorphize bread, but I love the fact that it needs to sit quietly, to retreat from touch and noise and drama, in order to evolve.

it had taken Jack a moment to realise it wasn't weight he'd lost during these eight months but pride

The age wasn't as important as the milestones.

As much as you want to hold on to the bitter sore memories that someone has left this world, you are still in it. And the very act of living is a tide: at first it seems to make no difference at all, and then one day you look down and see how much pain has eroded.

What twisted deity would grant you the superpower of fatherhood to protect someone who, one day, would not need you?

Kai aš buvau vaikas, mano mama man pasak?, kad aš esu mažas gabal?lis dangaus, kuris at?jo ? pasaul?, nes mama ir t?tis j? labai myl?jo! Tik v?liau aš supratau, jog tai nebuvo tiesa.

The first time I read Gone with the Wind and Rhett walked out on Scarlett, I was fifteen and thought all that unrequited love was wildly romantic. The second time I read it, last summer, I thought she was silly and he was a selfish pig.

realize that when she gardens, she never sees the seed. She is already picturing the plant it will become.

Now, I was starting to see that what looks like garbage from one angle might be art from another. Maybe it did take a crisis to get to know yourself; maybe you needed to get whacked hard by life before you understood what you wanted out of it.

The problem with marriage - or may be its strength - was that it spanned a distance, and you were never the same person you started out being. If you were lucky, you could still recognize each other years later.

At any moment, a person can start over. And that's not half a life, but simply a real one.

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matter how spectacular we want our children to be, no matter how perfect we pretend they are, they are bound to disappoint.

I learned the hard way that you shouldn't stay with someone because of your past together—what matters more is if you want the same things in the future.

I wonder how long it takes before the polish given by nature gets worn off by nurture.

It seemed to him that if you planted the seed of doubt in people's minds, they were more likely to take a look at new growth and yank it out by its roots as a potential weed, when it could very well have turned into something as harmless as a daisy.

Most things break, including hearts. The lessons of life amount not to wisdom, but to scar tissue and callus. —WALLACE STEGNER, THE SPECTATOR BIRD

Why bring up something that hurts so much, if it's not going to change anything?

The problem, he said, with being one of the best is that you still have to get better. But you're competing with yourself.