Quotes About Growth

Kart? mokydamas, kaip tapyti lotos? mano tapybos mokytojas ponas Vu aiškino: Ši graži g?l? auga iš nešvarum?. Mes sakome: "išaug?s iš purvo, bet nesusitep?s", taip ir kai kurie žmon?s gyvena blogio apsuptyje, bet išlieka dori.

High o'er the fence leaps Sunny Jim 'Force' is the food that raises him.

Diamonds are only chunks of coal, That stuck to their jobs, you see.

Time changes nothing, girl, but the size of your underwear. . .and hopefully your hairdo.

Ara faig d'angle estèril de la llum. Si em criden, tanmateix, diré que encara no estic a punt, que tinc certes foteses per endegar, mig de nit, mig de dia, que de moment, sisplau, amb mi no hi comptin, que encara em queda molt passat per viure.

HOME NOU Neix una nova edat de tu i de mi que a cada instant ens fa el viure més clar; amb tu reprenc el goig de caminar, i en tu i per tu confio en el destí. No em sé ni em vull si tu no em fas costat; la ment em fuig cap on et trobes tu. Prem-ne com sóc: desvalgut, pobre i nu, i fes-me l'home nou que he somiat.

It's important to remember that even the biggest person was, at one time, very, very small.

classroom. Instead of saying you're born, you live, you die, Hinduism says you're born, you learn, and you're reborn—this is the idea of samsara. Everything you do, think, and feel creates

If only you look, you'll find that right in that hole is something you've desperately needed to complete your journey successfully. And you wouldn't have found it if you hadn't fallen in that hole.

Think about your story in a new way,' the wise person says. 'You've been thinking of it as a loss. Now think of it as a liberation. What happened to you--it actually freed you up. And it didn't just free you up any old way. It freed you from some dead weight of the past so you could find a new home that would bring life to some part of you, maybe the best part of you.

If not, you'll just keep falling into holes until you can grasp the gift cosmos keeps on trying to give you.

The bad event gave you the strength you needed in your foundation to make possible the next wonderful thing in your life.

There are many paths you can follow to forgiveness. that was one: Understand that your present is different from your past. Here's another: Focus on how it's hurt you not to forgive yourself and on what you need to be safe.

I try to become more humble and more myself with every year. There was a while when I got famous where I was so confused and my head was spinning.

I was young, still so young, that I thought my lack of wholeness was somehow my fault. I had no idea everyone feels this way—that the most essential part of growing up is figuring out where your empty places are and learning how to fill them by, and for, yourself.

Ya no me sentía completa. Pero entonces me di cuenta con gran pesar de que en el fondo nunca me había sentido completa. Y esa atroz reflexión me detuvo en seco. Era joven, tanto que de alguna manera era culpa mía que estuviese incompleta, pensé. No sabía que todo el mundo se siente así, que la parte esencial del desarrollo de las personas consiste en detectar cuáles son nuestros espacios vacíos y aprender a llenarlos uno mismo.

I had no idea everyone feels this way—that the most essential part of growing up is figuring out where your empty places are and learning how to fill them by, and for, yourself.

It was a small thing, but it was a thing, and things have a way of either dying or growing, and it wasn't dying.

What was the lifespan of these improbable loves? An hour. A week. A few months at best. The end was a natural thing, like the seasons, like getting older, fruit turning. That was the saddest part—there was no one to blame and no way to reverse

I asked myself if I would kill my parents to save his life, a question I had been posing since I was fifteen. The answer always used to be yes. But in time, all those boys had faded away, and my parents were still there. I was now less and less willing to kill them for anyone; in fact, I worried for their health. In this case, however, I had to say yes. Yes, I would.

He was worried she would not let him love her with the stain. He had already decided long ago, twenty or thirty minutes ago, that the stain was fine. He had only seen it for a moment, but he was already used to it. It was good. It somehow allowed them to have more.

The boy was growing bored and this was a form of growing up.

But, like ivy, we grow where there is room for us. She seemed to have room for me; she never turned away in the pauses that allow for turning away.

I wanted to be the kind of teacher who learned from her students.