Quotes About Growth

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.

I need 'closure' as people say these days. Though you can never close the past. The most you can do with it is accept it.

Even these bad experiences are serving a purpose, don't you see?

I can never be all the people I want and live all the lives I want. I can never train myself in all the skills I want.

We are shaped more by our failures than our successes (paraphrase)

Because now she saw the kinds of things she could do when she put herself to work. And that, actually, the life she had been living had its own logic to it.

After all, we aren't just who we are born. We are who we become. We are what life does to us.

He was fifteen years old. This meant he belonged to a special subcategory of human called a "teenager," the chief characteristics of which were a weakened resistance to gravity, a vocabulary of grunts, a lack of spatial awareness, copious amounts of masturbation, and an unending appetite for cereal.

We don't go into a state of shock when something big and bad happens," she says. "It has to be something big and bad that we do not yet understand.

Nora, sometimes the only way to learn is to live.

You could have just told me I wasn't a bad cat owner. Why didn't you?' 'Because, Nora, sometimes the only way to learn is to live.

At the bottom of the pit, I always had to force myself to find the beauty, the goodness, the love, however hard it was. It was hard to do. But I had to try. Change doesn't just happen by focusing on the place you want to escape. It happens by focusing on where you want to reach. Boost the good guys, don't just knock the bad guys. Find the hope that is already here and help it grow.

Because, Nora, sometimes the only way to learn is to live.' 'Sounds hard.

She learned that undoing regrets was really a way of making wishes come true.

According to science, you start off as coal and you end up as coal. Maybe that was the real life lesson

There is this idea that you either read to escape or you read to find yourself. I don't really see the difference. We find ourselves through the process of escaping. It is not where we are, but where we want to go, and all that.

She wasn't a black hole, she decided she was a volcano. And like a volcano, she couldn't run away from her self. She'd have to stay there in 10 to that wasteland. She could plan a forest inside of herself

And we risk only ever looking above to the future or below to the past and never around at the infinite horizontal landscape of the present. The trouble with ladders is they give you no room to move around. Just room to fall.

I'm just a slow-emotion replay of somebody I used to be.

Get out of your comfort zone and into your discomfort zone. That's where real change begins.

The most useful form of time travel would be to go back a year or two and rectify the mistakes we made.

the past is important to learn from, but not to live in. The future is important for your direction but not to be so consumed in that you can't enjoy the present.

Keep in mind that your past self does not exist anymore and your present self should realize that.

Our lives, as short as they may be, are a test. And one of the biggest tests we can endure is how we respond to those moments when we don't feel the presence of God in our lives. I believe deeply that one of God's greatest gifts is to teach us there is a purpose behind every single one of our trials or problems. Treat them as a gift, an opportunity to move forward and draw closer to God. Problems often times compel us to look to God and count on him, rather than ourselves.