Quotes About Growth

Things tent to get worse, before they got worse

We are all works in progress until the moment we die, none of us complete until that precise event.

A clever girl may pass through the phase of foolish miss on the way to sensible woman.

He'd assumed that you went to school because you had to learn things, starting off with the easy stuff and moving on to the bigger issues, and once you'd learned them that was it, the way ahead opened up and thereafter life was simple and straightforward. What a joke. The older he got, the more complicated and obscure everything became.

Most children suffer from a crippling lack of stimulation. The brain is like any other muscle; use it, and it develops. Ignore it, and it atrophies.

children have very little concept of time. Tomorrow is forever, and years pass in no time at all.

Creativity is inventing, experimenting, growing, taking risks, breaking rules, making mistakes, and having fun.

The people who love us do for us what we cannot do for ourselves. They release the best in us; they shoulder us through the rough times in life; they stretch us beyond the confines of our own experiences to wider visions, to truer vistas.

Mary Lynn Manns

Nineteen years are as ages to you when you are nineteen. When you are nineteen there is no experience to tell you that all things have an end.

Deep down, I know that I am a child of God who has inherited divine capacities; some of them I strive to develop, others are left languishing. I also have a human side. I lose my temper, lose patience and sometimes judge others and myself.

Don't wait for something big to occur. Start where you are, with what you have, and that will always lead you into something greater.

La Samaritaine and the Cognacqs were also thriving.

What's the use of falling in love if you both remain inertly as you were?

You can date the evolving life of a mind, like the age of a tree, by the rings of friendship formed by the expanding central trunk.

We have a powerful potential in out youth, and we must have the courage to change old ideas and practices so that we may direct their power toward good ends.

It made me love them more because I knew the day would come when I would also be unrecognizable to myself.

To help create positive change in others, you must first find the catalyst for positive change in yourself," Mary Miller, Changing Direction: Ten Choices That Impact Your Dreams (Chapter 1).

Misfortunes make us wise

The Past is Experience, Thats All You Got to Learn From.

His internal God-inspired vision for himself was realized through the acceptance of his previously unacceptable physical vision.

I tell you this to break your heart, by which I mean only that it break open and never close again to the rest of the world.

This thing that we call 'failure' is not the falling down, but the staying down.

You may have a fresh start any moment you choose, for this thing that we call 'failure' is not the falling down, but the staying down.