Quotes About Growth

there were things I knew for sure: That I had been loved, once, and had loved back. That a person could find hope in the way a weed grew. That the sum of a man's life was not where he wound up but in the details that brought him there. That we made mistakes.

People have to experience things that terrify them. If they don't, how will they ever come to appreciate safety?

Change isn't always for the worst; the shell that forms around a piece of sand looks to some people like an irritation, and to others, like a pearl.

But kids don't stay where they're supposed to. You turn around and find her not in the bedroom but hiding in a closet; you turn around and see she's not three but thirteen. Parenting is really just a matter of tracking, of hoping your kids do not get so far ahead you can no longer see their next moves.

Prisiminimai n?ra kapitalas, kur? turi vis? gyvenim?.Tai - tam tikra atminties kiekyb?,sukaupiama,sužadinama ir išstumiama ? s?mon?.

And then one day, you turn around, and your baby is a man.

Later, as I got to know her, I'd realize that when she gardens, she never sees the seed. She is already picturing the plant it will become.

This has always been my favorite fact about bees: in their world, destiny is fluid. You might start life as a worker, and end up a queen.

Stop trying to act like nothing happened. Because something did, and you can't make it go back to being the same

You know what my father used to say? True love is like bread. It needs the right ingredients, a little heat, and some magic to rise.

I love the fact that it needs to sit quietly, to retreat from touch and noise and drama, in order to evolve. I have to admit, I often feel that way myself.

What if it turns out that a life isn't defined by who you belong to or where you came from, by what you wished for or whom you lost, but instead by the moments you spend getting from each of these places to the next? p 418

That's all a human life is, really—a do-over, a chance to get it right Ã¢â'¬Â¦ or you'll be brought back to try again.

I did not realize at that time that when you plant seeds, you also get roots.

Now I know: adulthood is a line drawn in the sand. At some point, your child will be standing on the other side.

if you spend too much time living in the past, you never move forward.

I was starting to see that the past might color the future, but it didn't determine it. And if I could believe that, it was much easier to let go of what I'd done wrong.

But I do know that my own shittiest days were usually followed by better ones.

If you don't want someone to change your life for you, you've got to change it yourself.

getting what you want isn't instant gratification. It's a slow pulling apart, a realignment of bones and sinew. There are aches involved. There is bruising.

I wonder if, as you get older, you stop missing people so fiercely. Maybe growing up is just focusing on what you've got, instead of what you don't

The more you get past pain, the more it goes from coal to diamond.

I would have given anything to keep her little. They outgrow us so much faster than we outgrow them.

I wondered how two boys - like Shay and me - could begin at the same point and somehow take turns that would lead us to be such a different men.