Quotes About Growth

A friend is one that knows you as you are, understands where you have been, accepts what you have become, and still, gently allows you to grow.

True love is that which ennobles the personality, fortifies the heart, and sanctifies the existence.

Love doesn't just sit there, like a stone; it has to be made, like bread, remade all the time, made new.

My boyfriend used to ask his mother, 'How can I find the right woman for me?' and she would answer, 'Don't worry about finding the right woman- concentrate on becoming the right man.'

Love not what you are, but what you may become.

Love is like the measles. The older you get it, the worse the attack.

Love is the answer, and you know that for sure; Love is a flower, you've got to let it grow.

To fall in love is easy, even to remain in it is not difficult; our human loneliness is cause enough. But it is a hard quest worth making to find a comrade through whose steady presence one becomes steadily the person one desires to be.

Some think that love is all flowers and good times, but I think that love is more than just that. Love is the bad, as well as the better, not lived alone, but a journey together. Something that only the closest can share, with communication, respect,

Real love hurts, real love makes you totally open and vulnerable. Real love will take you far behind yourself,and therefore real love will devastate you. If love doesn't shatter you, you will not know love

We come to love not by finding the perfect person, but by learning to see an imperfect person perfectly... Only after we have lost everything, are we free to do anything... Throw things out there and not be perfect and not have answers to anything and see if people understand

All I really, really want our love to do is to bring out the best in me and in you too.

Love does not begin and end the way we seem to think it does. Love is a battle, love is a war; love is a growing up.

Love is born in fire, is planted like a seed Love cannot give you everything, but it gives you what you need

We are not the same persons this year as last; nor are those we love. It is a happy chance if we, changing, continue to love a changed person.

Love seems the swiftest, but it is the slowest of all growths. No man or woman really knows what perfect love is until they have been married a quarter of a century.

I love you not only for what you are, but for what I am when I am with you. I love you not only for what you have made of yourself, but for what you are making of me. I love you for the part of me that you bring out.

All discarded lovers should be given a second chance, but with somebody else.

True love always makes a man better, no matter what woman inspires it

The most beautiful discovery true friends make is that they can grow separately without growing apart.

Go often to the house of thy friend, for weeds choke the unused path.

No birth certificate is issued when friendship is born. There is nothing tangible. There is just a feeling that your life is different and that your capacity to love and care has miraculously been enlarged with out any effort on your part. It's like having a tiny apartment and somebody moves in with you. But instead of becoming cramped and crowded, the space expands, and you discover rooms you never knew you had until your friend moved in with you.

Friendship is the shadow of the evening, which increases with the setting sun of life.

All theory, dear friend, is gray, but the golden tree of life springs ever green.