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Quotes About Growth

If you don't give your kid freedom to make choices with money, including stupid choices, he'll make plenty when he gets to college.
~ John W. Gardner
We need old friends to help us grow old and new friends to help us stay young.
~ Letty Cottin Pogrebin
That's the risk you take if you change: that people you've been involved with won't like the new you. But other people who do will come along.
~ Lisa Alther
I've heard it said that people come into our lives for a reason Bringing something we must learn And we are led to those who help us most to grow If we let them and we help them in return.
~ Stephen Schwartz
A beautiful friendship can change people.
~ Unknown
Friendship is not linear. It moves in all directions, teaching us about ourselves and about each other.
~ Shirley MacLaine
True friendship is a plant of slow growth.
~ George Washington
All the people we used to know, they're an illusion to me now.
~ Bob Dylan
Remember that no time is ever wasted that makes two people better friends.
~ H. Jackson Brown, Jr.
We are friends for life. When we're together the years fall away. Isn't that what matters? To have someone who can remember with you? To have someone who remembers how far you've come?
~ Judy Blume
I think that friendship always makes us feel such sweet gratitude, because the world almost always seems like a very hard desert, and the flowers that grow there seem to grow against such high odds.
~ Stephen King
Friendship is like a rose. . . opening one petal at a time, only as it unfolds. . . day by day it reveals its true beauty.
~ Joan Walsh Anglund
A friend is someone who inspires, who challenges, who sends you in search of some truer sense of yourself.
~ Steve Lopez
The cracks in old friendships are measured in awkward pauses.
~ Darin Strauss
Each new friendship can make you a new person, because it opens up new doors inside of you.
~ Kate DiCamillo
It's not who you are, who you are friends, and how popular they are, it's just about how much you get out of each friendship and how much you learn from each one that really counts.
~ Emily Blackwell
As long as our orientation is toward perfection or success, we will never learn about unconditional friendship with ourselves, nor will we find compassion.
~ Pema Chodron
No, friends were like clothes: fine while they lasted but eventually they wore thin or you grew out of them.
~ David Nicholls, One Day
Best friends are made are made through smiles and tears, and sometimes that fades away through miles and years.
~ Unknown
Attach yourself to those who advise you rather than praise you.
~ Nicolas Boileau-Despreaux
I recommend that you try a little mental floss.
~ Jimmy Buffett
The great advantage of a new friend is that we have not yet found one another out.
~ Mason Cooley
Up! up! my friend, and quit your books, Or surely you 'll grow double! Up! up! my friend, and clear your looks! Why all this toil and trouble?
~ William Wordsworth
Books + friendship = book club
~ Kristin Hannah