Quotes About Growth

It's okay to wear the scars of experience.

Andrea told me after that film that there was too much Matt Haig in Matt Haig. She was kind of joking but kind of on to something. So for me, anything that lessens that extreme sense of selfe, that makes me feel me but at a lower volume, is very welcome. (...) Travel has been one of those things.

Pressure makes us, though. You start off as coal and the pressure makes you a diamond.' She didn't correct his knowledge of diamonds. She didn't tell him that while coal and diamonds are both carbon, coal is too impure to be able, under whatever pressure, to become a diamond. According to science, you start off as coal and you end up as coal. Maybe that was the real lesson.

She realised, in that moment, that she was capable of a lot more than she had known.

But what I didn't realise was that when it came to that sneaking, camouflaged, untouchable giant known as the Future, I was as vulnerable as anyone.

The most painful moments in life expand us. And when the pain leaves, space remains. Space we can fill with life itself.

Comfort for me is not about everything being perfect. It is about finding comfort despite life being imperfect, being occasionally harsh and brutal. The resilience we find in the hard times is what makes us strong in all seasons.

Because life is frightening, and it is frightening for a reason, and the reason is that it doesn't matter which branch of a life we get to live, we are always the same rotten tree.

You arrived, with baby feet and hands and infinite happiness, and then the happiness slowly evaporated as your feet and hands grew bigger.

After all, we aren't just who we are born. We are who we become. We are what life does to us. And she, born four hundred years ago, has had a lot of it, has done a lot of living.

It is a strange paradox, that many of the clearest, most comforting life lessons are learned while we are at our lowest.

When we feel or experience terrible things, it is useful to remember that nothing lasts. Perspective shifts. We become different versions of ourselves. The hardest question I have ever been asked is: "How do I stay alive for other people if I have no one?" The answer is that you stay alive for other versions of you. For the people you will meet, yes, sure, but also the people you will be.

She had shrunk for him, but he still hadn't found the space he needed.

There are billions of different versions of an older you. There is one version of the present you. Focus on that.

Don't worry about the time you lose to despair. The time you will have afterwards has just doubled its value.

Be less robot, more human. Be more imperfect. Evolution happens through mistakes.

Because a pawn is never just a pawn. A pawn is a queen-in-waiting. All you need to do is find a way to keep moving forward. One square after another. And you can get to the other side and unlock all kinds of power.

When things are taken from us, the stuff that remains has more value. It rises not only in visibility but also intensity. What we lose in breadth we gain in depth.

A sore throat doesn't become less sore simply because you've felt it before.

Keep allowing yourself the human privilege of mistakes.

It seems that you have spent all your life saying things that you aren't really thinking. This is one of your barriers.' 'Barriers?' 'Yes. You have a lot of them. They stop you from seeing the truth.' 'About what?' 'About yourself. And you really need to start trying. To see the truth. Because this matters.

Evolution happens through mistakes.

My aunt used to tell me that books are just trees that are having a dream.

She just needed potential. And she was nothing if not potential. She wondered why she had never seen it before.