Quotes About Growth

The day I was born, my house burnt down; the day I left home, the Twin Towers burnt down; and I lived in a jungle in India at 15.

You are a wonderful son, and a wonderful man. Yet another parent busting forth with the "man" thing! I'd have to check my chest for signs of hair when I got home.

First there was just my home. Now I have to deal with the whole world.

Home - the nursery of the Infinite.

I lived at home till I was 29.

I walked away to get wisdom, but in the end I just walked home.

I was a girl and became a woman. Something about having the freedom at home to be in the position I wanted, to have the people I wanted, was empowering.

But where, after we have made the great decision to leave the security of childhood and move on into the vastness of maturity, does anybody ever feel completely at home?

When I go home to Santa Cruz, I'm the same girl as when I grew up.

Before we return to Heaven, our real home, we have an incredible opportunity on Earth to face challenges that will help us learn, grow and to become more Christ-like in the fruits of our spirit.

Music education is very important. I think that for me growing up, I was disciplined very hard at home.

I will get America working again and see rising take-home pay again.

Someday America will have its very own commercial-free TV and radio station devoted to only one thing: to teach people, in their homes, all the essentials of personal achievement.

I actually just started home schooling. And it is great.

From '69 til '76, I never played in public. I would play by myself at home.

I will get my education - if it is in home, school, or anyplace.

I never even had a bachelorhood: I went straight from my parents' home to a marriage.

Making resolutions is a cleansing ritual of self-assessment and repentance that demands personal honesty and, ultimately, reinforces humility. Breaking them is part of the cycle.

No matter how many years you sit doing zazen, you will never become anything special.

The woman who bore me is no longer alive, but I seem to be her daughter in increasingly profound ways.

One of the hardest things in this world is to admit you are wrong. And nothing is more helpful in resolving a situation than its frank admission.

Good thoughts bear good fruit.

Just as surely as distress must follow self-deceit, healing must follow self-honesty.

In youth we feel richer for every new illusion; in maturer years, for every one we lose.