Quotes About Growth

No one is born a parent. We all learn along the way.

Butterfly Garden is especially important to me because it delves into sibling relationships and family hierarchy as children and as adults. It also deals with metamorphosis on various levels and an eventual letting go… of old beliefs, habits, rituals. Just as the butterfly sheds its cocoon to emerge in dazzling splendor, so too, if given proper nurturing and guidance, do we.

relationships are like gardens. They require constant tending and vigilance to prevent weeds, encourage growth, and promote a bountiful harvest.

Gardeners, I think, dream bigger dreams than emperors.

Mary Carolyn Waldrep

We are not what we know but what we are willing to learn." ? Mary Catherine Bateson

As far as feeling freedom in my career now versus five years ago... I think if I feel any more free it's simply because of the experiences that I've had, and the wisdom I've accumulated from that time.

Today--the partial result, the pain; Tomorrow--fruition, the perfect part.

And they rode for home. His ice had thawed. Her fire had calmed. They'd thrived alone, but there'd been no happiness. Together they were better, stronger, wiser, more faithful. Together they'd forged their fire and ice into the warmth of true love.

Immature love says: 'I love you because I need you.' Mature love says: 'I need you because I love you.'

Cheers to a new year and another chance for us to get it right.

Disappointments are to the soul what the thunder-storm is to the air.

One heartbreak is like a thousand lessons. Loving again is learning them.

Sisters is probably the most competitive relationship within the family, but once sisters are grown, it becomes the strongest relationship.

My sisters have taught me how to live.

I want to do with you what spring does with the cherry trees.

Plant seeds of happiness, hope, success, and love; it will all come back to you in abundance. This is the law of nature.

Your task is not to seek for love, but merely to seek and find all the barriers within yourself that you have built against it.

I love you not because of who you are, but because of who I am when I am with you.

Love is like a friendship caught on fire: In the beginning a flame, very pretty, often hot and fierce, but still only light and flickering. As love grows older, our hearts mature and our love becomes as coals, deep-burning and unquenchable.

Since love grows within you, so beauty grows. For love is the beauty of the soul

In love, the past is not important, but the present. Experience is more relevant than the pain you went through. The only thing that will make it stronger is forgiveness and not the retorting of sin.

I loved you when love was Spring, and May, Loved you when summer deepened into June, and now when autumn yellows all the leaves...

As a Rose absorbs the nutrients it feeds on and as it thrives to see the sun as it must to survive...... the Rose becomes more beautiful and in turn will provide sunshine to those who can behold it's beauty. Fortunate is the Man who can see the Rose within a Woman. Blessed is the man who this Woman holds to be her nutrient, her sunshine.